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it was still early, I think half past eight

so I get dressed like crazy

I thought: I'm driving there, I want to be with him

In Amsterdam North, was murdered the brother of the

key witness in the trial against the Mocro Mafia

Nabil called me then

He said: I want to talk to you in private.

because he had already made up his mind

to make a deal with the government

Nabil actually wanted

Said and Ridouan Taghi to take their responsibility

and told the truth to those people.

A ruthless murder of a lawyer just in front of his house

In Amsterdam in broad daylight

a breakthrough in the so-called Mocro Mafia affair

the Ministery of Justice have now a keywitness

For over 3 years key witness Nabil B. has been giving

to prosecutors long statements against the Mocro Mafia,

it meant the end of the organization led by Ridouan Taghi

Who was responsible of years of death and destruction in the underworld

I will speak with crime experts and investigators in this series

about the murders on this case: Marengo

I'm going back to the places where murders have taken place.

I will speak exclusively with the family of the key witness

That's not a big nightmare

but that is the blackest day in your life

and re-construct the hunt for Ridouan Taghi and Said Razzouki

There was the location of the target

and we were at this building here

It's called Saltamontes

from there we had him under surveillance

This is the place of the arrest where the "Jungle Commandos" come from that day

get out for the arrest and very quickly tries to force the door.

The Spy shop owner was murdered for nothing

Just out of pure idiocy

If you see how he would kill, that mutual e-mails

he becomes very impulsive, very aggressive.

JOHN VAN DEN HEUVEL Presents: THE HUNT FOR THE MOCRO MAFIA Episode 1 From Bad Boys to Top Gangsters

Since 2017, Nabil B has been telling prosecutors the deepest secret of the

criminal organization of Ridouan Taghi and Saïd Razzouki

but I have read all those statements myself for years.

They offer a unique insight into the tough Mocro Mafia underworld

this series are based on that statements but narrated by an actor.

It is the organization of Ridouan Taghi.

He's the head, the sinner.

The right hand is Mao and left hand is Said Razzouki.

The three eat from the same plate.

Mao is actually a real friend of Ridouan.

Said is more like an older brother.

I belong to a group managed by Said

Here in Vianen under the smoke of Utrecht

there are plenty of well known Dutch criminals

but who is Ridouan Taghi?Actually

Ridouan Taghi was born in Morocco in a very large family.

He has 8 sisters and two brothers a family of 11 siblings

He came to the Netherlands at a very young age and grew up in Vianen.

He went to High School in Nieuwegein but he didn't finished it.

He ended up quitting school early.

He was member of a youth gang called Bad boys.

A group of young people from the Utrecht region who mainly hang out at

shopping centre Cityplaza in Nieuwegein

That group engaged in some ...

burglaries, later large-scale smuggling, weapons...

well and you see what that gang was actually up to in the 80s

and in the early nineties Ridouan Taghi became a teen

from the High School with neat little guy ambitions who wanted to climb

he was first a small player in that group literally.

By that time they still call him small or nose because of his

stature and he was still young

He also get beaten up sometimes by the sculpted body guys.

but Taghi had a trump on his hands

his family was already deeply involved on hashish smuggling

They had a route from Morocco to Europe

and that became useful for Taghi

I see that he does had opportunities and he was active

at some point they were using the same lines than

his grandfather on his days.

And later they start smuggling cocaine that was

of course much more lucrative than hashish.

So he was basically about those old routes, he used to load

In Morocco via Spain to Netherlands and then in no time he got really rich

So he rose very quickly in the hierarchy.

he became very rich therefore he could pay very well for the

people who worked for and Bad Boys, that youth from Bad Boys

later became the core of the organization of Ridouan Taghi

you see that in that time the bond of trust lubricated and they were

very together all of them pulls together in the crimes then it is possible

later of course in that road you can't distrust the norm

you just think you can rely on each other

and that's what makes the Bad Boys interesting now.

You see that more often in those groups

for example in Amsterdam South East.

It all starts with some silly burglaries.

and slowly it gets heavier and finally you see them

really busy on the murder for hire business

them in one day they are no longer burglars they become

spotters and hitters that work for murder teams

One of the guys who isn't going to work anyway

Is Nabil B, in a secret location somewhere abroad, I spoke with his family

My life has been totally destroyed.

Since the day my brother became part of Ridouan Taghi's organization

Have you any contact with Nabil? How is your relation with him?

- Just a Brother-Sister relationship

In a large family, age differences can be significant

So not everyone experiences everything from each other

was just a normal brother-sister relationship

that I always had with my little brother

- My age doesn't differ much from Nabil then

I must say that I have always had a close relationship with Nabil

He was always a very reliable guy that I could count on

and I grew up with him

he is an intelligent boy

and very social

- What happened with him in your opinion?

- I think when my parents 30 years ago

came to live in the residential area where we grew up

it was a nice neighbourhood

we were also the only Moroccans at that time

at some point after the years passed

the area is really impoverished

different types of people also came to live there

he grew up in a different neighbourhood

than the older siblings

I think that

his environment, his formation in those crucial years of his life...

influenced pretty much

-And When do you think this environment start to influence?

-I think between eight and sixteen years old

Yes I think that's what made Nabil impressionable

that kind of brotherhood that he could find in those young people

they were together and understand each other

and I think he sort of rolled into that along the way

I think we all didn't see it coming to this extent

this is really one...

it has been a terrible shock

for us all

I also think it's really hard to see it coming

it is very crazy

Here on Vleutenseweg in Utrecht, Nabil B gets to know top criminal Ridouan Taghi

that is how he recall that meeting

- I went there with friends and got in touch with Ridouan Taghi

we use to play games with each other there and also Ridouan Taghi

I knew he was into hashish from Morocco via

Spain to the Netherlands and other countries

They both come from Arabic background

and get along well together

Ridouan was a nice cheerful boy

but if he had been drinking then he could become unpredictable

Business is quickly conducted in the tea house.

Taghi asks Nabil for help with a large drug transport.

Ridouan was able to arrange clients in Madrid who wanted Speed

He want me to arrange the logistics

And he start to work within the organization of Ridouan Taghi

an organization, that according to justice, not only

deals with large drug shipments,

but also with brutal assassinations.

And the leaders of the group are Ridouan Taghi, Said Razzouki and Mao R.

So Said Razzouki and Mao R. were the ones who get the hitters, drivers, cars..

Also spotters for example to observe potential targets

and prepare duets for the murders.

The stolen cars were settled

by groups were Bad Boys also played a role,

and that's how they structure it and actually remained very effective.

Saïd Razzouki is known as a quieter

He is older than Taghi.

He is known as someone who is more

like a father figure

but he was actually important.

At the Ministry of Justice they have right now

a huge Mountain of information

As result of conversations they had through blackberries and you can see in that

Mutual e-mails were murders were ordered.

he was opaque and you can see that Taghi is much above him

and all the time very impulsive, very aggressive

if he decide that this and this had to go, he would immediately

send the message to his murder squads, and they would be out there

better kill that butcher.

better kill that butcher. He goes to sleep.

better kill that butcher. He goes to sleep. Need blood nothing else

And then we have Mao R. from the Bad Boys

who is a whole important adjutant

and you see that is a guy with Surinamese origin

playing the washing machine role with a crew of Moroccan origin.

So that it is a multicultural company,

you see that there are also Dutch among the Bad boys,

from Taghi's old crew

so you see it's a kind of a multicultural network that

out of purely opportunism has started working together very tight

and just below that was Nabil B who had

direct contact with the top of the organization

The organization will really start to be exposed in 2015

as in the vicinity of Utrecht an arsenal of weapons was seized

arsenal of weapons ready to use at any time seized by

Nieuwegein's police last week, it is one of the greatest

weapons bust ever done.

8 people have been detained and nearly a 100 firearms have been found

as well as hand grenades, a home made bomb, stolen cars and drugs.

That is the start of the so-called operation "26 Koper"

Is at 26 Koper storage garages where the

murders where prepared

was use by spotters

those who have to locate observe the target

At the end of 2015 we received a USB stick,

with the entire criminal file of 26 Koper and that was a treasure

information was completely new to us about how criminals

following each other, the death lists.

They had spotters, who must observe

hitters, the ones who pull the trigger

and the handyman who arrange the stolen cars to escape from the crime scene

those vehicles would serve as well to observe targets.

It said that that club makes about 19 million Euros a year in profit

it's like sports financial but with drug trafficking, and it's just a

hit man team we talking about

then who is hanging above, who is the boss?

wasn't really like the rising stars in our world

it only happened much later when an important witness Ibrahim B. had something

to report to the police in Germany, He was terrified

he had the suspicion of being followed and observed by

members of the Bad boys.

So he goes to the police and start to explain

and he talks about Said Razzouki, about Ridouan Taghi and how

the whole organization works, but at this point the police has no idea

about who they are, and for us at the time the big question

was still, who is their Nº1? Who is their leader?

and according to Ibrahim B that leader is Taghi.

So from that moment on he is in the picture as the big one

for which everyone has a fear and everyone warns

and then we could build an image of that organization

the different compartments which they are divided

and now life threatening,

while the Netherlands is still busy with Holleeder or with the

liquidation process Passage, then suddenly pops up and a man that is

greater than anyone, Ridouan Taghi He is called the man of 10 million

cause he has a price on his head of 10 million Euros by his opponents

to would put a bullet on his head

And is a totally new person. Nobody knows him.

It is a man who has been under the

radar and remained there so he could grow.

According to justice, Ridouan Taghi uses those murder squads

that would be responsible of numerous homicides

and assassination attempts and that arises the investigations

on the "Marengo" case.

The investigations in Marengo Case rise the suspicion that Taghi

commanded these murders.

All the lines in the investigations of Marengo,

eventually point at one and same person

Ridouan Taghi

one of the cases in which Taghi is a suspect is the murder of

Spy shop owner Ronald Bakker

Yesterday afternoon a 59 years old man was shot dead

the shooting had a lot of impact in the neighbourhood.

- At 6:10 yesterday I was sitting in front of the computer, and I

heard a motorcycle driving away at an extreme speed

in such a way that I just got up and look.

it was driven by a young man

It is normal family, and yes that something like this come up...

You just don't expect that at all

To me is one of the most shocking murders in all Marengo process.

is the murder of Ronald Bakker,

because the man hasn't any criminal background

but the Spy shop owner was murdered for nothing

just pure idiocy

I went to the place where Ronald Bakker used to work a Spy shop in Nieuwegein

Here the spotters from Taghi's organization

have been watching him closely.

Those spotters had the task to have the target killed

for over weeks maybe even months they followed him

and map out his daily moves

they would watch Ronald Bakker from this side of the water channel

Ronald Bakker was working at a Spy shop that is

located there in that row of buildings on the industrial zone of Nieuweigen

and what did those spotters actually did was to came here every days.

They quietly park their car here in the neighbourhood.

a White Citroën C4

then they took lot of fishing stuff out of the trunk

and then they walked that way

So this is the place where the spotters use to stay

actually they were about 200 meters from the

the Spy shop and that helps to map out exactly the life of Ronald Bakker.

Who he received here, what time he was going home,

the car he was driving... That was quite a difficult job.

the spotters used binoculars and from this distance

they could look right into the building

they also followed the wrong person for a while, but eventually

a second spotter came along who actually knew

how Ronald Bakker look like

this is how they actually got back on track

and also get ready for the day of the assassination.

That day they noticed

that Ronald Bakker at some point left the shop.

so they quickly took all their fishing and spying stuff

crossed that street.

and quickly go back to the car, that white Citroën C4

and at that moment Ronald Bakker came by here

and drove off the industrial zone they was watching him from there

as he advanced to his home in Huizen

actually before he drove into his neighbourhood in Huizen

a hit man on motorbike was waiting for him ,

the spotters laid back and hit man

advances, while Ronald seats in his car unaware

the hit man approach the driver window and shot him to dead.

Although the murder of Ronald Bakker at first glance

seemed to be done quite professionally

the spotters made some crucial mistakes

Actually two mistakes, the white Citroen C4

was rented under the name of one of the spotters, and the rental company

had all cars equipped with trackers connected to the company's computers

So the police was able to track all their moves

which routes these car had followed,

that the car had been in Ronald's neighbourhood

The times they was watching him at work here.

Another mistake they made was that there is no fish here

it all went really clumsily and the lack of caution was such

that the employees of the Spy shop

even got suspicious at one point

so they photographed the spotters from the Spy shop and those

photos were essential for the investigation, cause with the photos

and the data from the rental car tracker, it was finally possible

to arrest these spotters and some other people.

the murderers of Ronald Bakker received the ridiculous sentence

of 13 and 15 years in prison

and Taghi was suspected of ordering the crime

Ronald Bakker's Spy shop use to supply equipment

To Taghi's organization assassination squads.

The use use to sell them PGP mobile phones

that could communicated in a veiled way.

And other eavesdropping devices.

Ridouan Taghi was not satisfied with the quality of that equipment,

but more importantly, is that before Ronald's death

detectives visited his Spy shop and asked questions

about Ridouan Taghi

and Ronald Bakker and his staff provided information

that would put the police on the trail of

Taghi's assassination squads

Mortal sin in the eyes of Ridouan Taghi and therefore

Ronald Bakker had to die, and in that case

things could be arranged quickly, they even thought

of coming here with a rocket launcher

to shoot at the Spy shop in that case,

we know that they want to commit the attack that way

from the PGP conversations and that's almost horrifying.

100% people sleep there. The husband of the Porsche and his wife, but see no child.

Yes bazooka will pass through for sure

hope that kk spy traitor gone tomorrow

So what we actually just assumed is

that there would be several deaths in the attack.

that it would not be only Ronald Bakker,

but there would be also several other victims

and maybe even clients would die

but that wasn't a problem for Taghi.

that would be just collateral damage for him.

but that didn't happen and attack finally took place in Huizen.

The shooter of the Spy shop owner wasn't unknown to justice

It was a Surinamese called Gerel Palm and the murder of Ronald Bakker

wasn't the only one he was inolved

Tonight we have a lot to talk about Gerel Palm

Palm was already on the wanted criminals list,

because he was allegedly involved in a double murder attempt

In December 2016 at Noordeloos

because of a drugs conflict two men were left seriously injured in a meadow

one of the most fascinating suspects on the Marengo Case is Gerel Palm

He is an half Antillean half Surinamese man, and actually

you hear lots of stories from the criminal circuit

and there is the rumour that he was actually

the main hip and the main gunman of Ridouan Taghi

a man who is also part of the club The Bad boys.

And of the boys from Bad Boys were loyal

eventually it turned out that he was in Suriname, and it is bizarre

that he was finally arrested in Suriname

but after a short time he fled from prison.

He managed to get a weapon to inside the prison and with the weapon

he threatened a prison guard and walked out of jail.

Palm seems to have played an important role in this

organization partly because of he is suspected of being involved

in several liquidations, we decided that reward for information

on Gerel Palm whereabouts should double

That reward was €15,000, and will now be € 30000

Taghi's assassination squads are active Since 2016 according to the justice

going one after the other shooting taking the lives of others

Because whoever snitch goes

Nabil B. also plays a role in one of those liquidations

like the one done by Taghi's groups where he took part as a spotter

where they killed a Yugoslav named Ranko Scekic

after a SMS from Nabil who was watching him,.

he was shot and killed by a man on a scooter

just because it was rumoured that he talked to the police

Was Taghi talking about this murders on this PGP messages?

haha, that hydrocephalus is no longer alive

haha, that hydrocephalus is no longer alive That dog took 5 or 6 bullets in the head

As well in broad daylight Samir Erraghib was shot dead at close range.

Bizarrely, this happens.

While he was sitting in the car next to his 7 years old daughter

Samir Erraghib use to be a member of the Bad Boys back in the day

he was probably killed because

he was suspected of snitching

and talking about the organization

so it seems here too that again and whoever talks is going to be story

but the most shocking is that he is killed

in presence of his daughter and apparently

for them it wasn't a major issue at all, that there was a child

that could have been avoided, now that child

will suffer that trauma for life, and so you see

that the bad boys of the past, actually

started to distance

another case where Ridouan Taghi is suspected

was a murder at this sex club in Het Gooi

ex-criminal and crime reporter Martin Kok

was murdered when he was getting into his car at a sex club in Laren

Martin Kok had already put himself on dangerous zones in 2016

he had a site vlinderscrime.nl, where he

actually reported on organized crime and at some point

he mentioned the name of Ridouan Taghi.

What Martin Kok apparently didn't know, Is that Ridouan Taghi

within his organization had stabilized

that anyone who would mention his name

would go to sleep, would be liquidated.

But Martin Kok didn't gave shit about it and he kept posting photos of

Ridouan Taghi, co-suspects on Marengo Case or accomplices

of Ridouan Taghi and that placed Martin on a death list

Martin Kok also spoke a lot about Taghi on his site

It is also not very smart of Martin that he spoke about

Taghi like that and also threw a photo on the site

Then you know that something can happen

He did some dangerous things

the things he wrote on his site

and He also often made fun of those people

named names on his site

in 2016 Martin Kok narrowly escapes death

when after a night out he sees something suspicious on his car.

- A bomb under your car? - How did you find out?

- You know that bombs have... that magnet light that blinks

- So I immediately saw that it was a bomb

- I have a crime site vlinderscrime.nl

I got a call from the police saying that was on a death list again

for the umpteenth time

because I had written about their murders...

About the Utrecht murders and 26 Koper storage garages

I made lots of revelations lately

And...yeah they want to take me down

The police made a simulation and conclude

would do damage in a 40 meters diameter

Martin's car was close to "MET TERRAS" so it wouldn't be just Martin.

If they were many visitors on the "CAFE" they would all die that night

Despite attempts on his live Martin did not to stop at all

and continue with the publications on vlinders crime

and that turn out to be fatal for him

because on November 8, 2016, the day started for Martin

actually quite merry as he woke up and

he went to lunch date with some of his colleagues

crime reporters at the Harbor Club in Amsterdam South

and from there he went to another appointment

at hotel Citizen M in Amsterdam South

and there as he was upon leaving the hotel

he was shot from behind by an hit man

but the weapon got stuck and hit man actually just walks

past Martin unnoticed and it came that way.

so he passed through the eye of the needle.

And in the evening Martin ended up here at a sex club in Het Gooi

he parked his car here in this parking lot . right here at this place

actually it is quite easy to recognize

because I don't know if it is symbolic or not

but all the trees near it are dead

and finally on this very spot.

Martin Kok live came to an end

and key witness Nabil B is also involved in this murder

On the day of the murder, I was requested to urgently check a license plate

that request came from Taghi through Razzouki

I've done that before for the organization

check who was the owner of the vehicle

the car turns out to be from Martin Kok's father

So Nabil forwards the data via PGP telephone to Saïd Razzouki

who gives the information to the shooter

So the police actually managed to do a reconstruction

there were one or two hit man

they were early on the site so they put some bushes here

and wait for him to come out, and at the moment he

sat in his car, a hit man came out of the bushes and opens fire

Martin died immediately and his partner had a strange behaviour

You actually see it on surveillance footage.

As he and the hit man quietly walk out of the parking lot,

it was strange and also the police found it very strange

and Martin stay here lifeless In the sit of his car.

The murder wasn't immediately noticed at that time.

Inside, no one has actually heard the shooting

until the doorman of the club actually thought this car was strange

as he came out to check

He saw the shattered windows and then finally saw

Martin sitting lifeless behind the wheel.

The man who was with Martin was later arrested

on suspicion of involvement on the murder

I saw on the news that Martin Kok had been killed

I read he was driving his father's car

I immediately had a deja vu

I grabbed my PGP and scrolled back...and I saw his father's name

Then it was clear to me

they got rid of him and I gave them the license plate number

But on January 2017 everything changes

as Nabil B is assigned to watch on a man nicknamed Imo.

I heard Imo had to use a wheelchair

I think this is because of his gossip on Taghi,

because Imo didn't do business with Taghi

He had to go to hell as it said in the messages

The man in question is Ali A

Nabil is assigned to provide a car to be used on the murder

and take those pictures of the target.

Taghi in turn would send this to the heads, the hitters, to avoid mistakes

So Taghi wanted to prevent mistakes on this murder

but unfortunately the wrong person was shot anyway

the victim was Hakim Changachi

- I came down and I saw him lying there, shot in the head

- And then it turns out that it's here with us

in the flat that happened! a bunch of crooks!

- Can you remember that moment?

- Yes, I remember it very well

- Did you also call or how are he was doing?

No, I live in the neighbourhood...

close to where the mistaken murder of Hakim Changachi took place

so a lot happened in that neighbourhood

You could hear helicopters

At one point there was a police check

to our neighbourhood and to the Overvecht neighbourhood itself

You are at home and you think: There is so much going on

But you don't think your that little brother is involved

Nabil heard through a friend that Hakim Changachi was shot dead

someone he knows very well.

I was still thinking about it then

it won't be the wrong one anyway

And that it had to be Imo

later Nabil sees on the media that around

one kilometer from the crime scene

the Police found an Audi on fire

It was Around 1 o'clock on the night of Wednesday 11

to Thursday 12 January at the Pauw Steef in Utrecht Overvecht

at Faust Avenue, the perpetrators then probably went to

A5 fled via Moezel Avenue and drive to Pallas Athene Avenue

where the car was set on fire

They were talking about the car that Nabil delivered

He is terrified and immediately contact Said Razzouki.

Nabil: I'm very stressed because they used that car in Hakim's murder

Said: What are you talking about?

That car I delivered to you, which was used in Overvecht, it has been recognized

So Nabil unintentionally participated in the murder of Hakim Changachi

the whole history of that murder club

of Ridouan Taghi in the Marengo investigation is actually

the liquidation...the mistaken liquidation on Hakim Changachi,

a member of a well-known criminal family in Utrecht

The murder of Hakim Changachi in January 2017

has actually been a moment..

That will prove to be crucial in the major processes surrounding Taghi

especially because Hakim wasn't the target

was another young criminal

from the same flat in Overvecht on the Pauw Avenue

He was the one that Taghi wanted to murder

Hakim Changachi is mistakenly killed for nothing.

the Changachi family also has a great

record in the criminal environment in Utrecht

tried again two days later to actually do it.

but by then a few people had already left the organization

the later murder on Amsterdam of the hit man who shot Hakim

and more importantly Nabil B

Nabil B is an important figure in the Taghi's organization

but is also a good friend of Changachi's family.

- What role has the mistaken murder played in this whole story

- A very big role

- In your optic?

- it is known to us

the involvement in the murder...

in the mistaken murder of Hakim Changachi

of Nabil

was a big mistake

he just found out

that he was involved in this murder when he watched the news...

and he saw a car in the picture

which was actually not shown before that day

it is a known family to us

and it is a family that has also been through a lot of misery

Nabil also knew that boy personally

- And that was a important moment the Marengo process

- The situation...

of those people at that time...

made it very difficult for him to swallow

And it was even harder for him to see...

that the top of that criminal organization did not take responsibilities

Nabil called me then

Then he said: I want to talk to you in private

And then he told me what happened

And that he felt compelled to

to collaborate with the authorities

And since it was just a matter of time...

that they could murder him as well

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