Dutch Police Arrest Suspect in Slaying of Witness’ Lawyer

Forensic experts search for evidence in the area where a lawyer who represented a key witness in a major Dutch organized crime trial was gunned down in Amsterdam, in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Sept. 18, 2019. Peter Dejong/AP

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Police in the Netherlands said Oct. 3 they have arrested a man in the fatal shooting of a lawyer last month, a killing that shocked the nation.

The man was arrested Oct. 1 on suspicion of involvement in lawyer Derk Wiersum’s Sept. 18 slaying in Amsterdam, Dutch police said in a statement.