Le suspect le plus recherché des Pays-Bas et 16 autres membres présumés d'un cartel de drogue appelé la "Mocro Maffia" écouteront le verdict de leur procès mardi, avec au moins six d'entre eux risquant la prison à vie.
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00:00 The most wanted suspect in the Netherlands and 16 other members of a drug cartel called
00:04 the "Homochromafia" will hear the verdict of their trial on Tuesday, with at least
00:08 six of them risking life in prison.
00:09 The drug baron presumed Ridwan Taghi is accused of pulling the strings of an organization
00:15 qualified as a "well-oiled killing machine" which has been found guilty of at least six
00:18 murders and four attempted murders, according to the accusation.
00:21 Almost six years after the start of this trial, the verdict will be read from 10am to 9am
00:27 in a GMT building in front of a highly secured court, commonly called "Le Bunker", on the
00:32 outskirts of Amsterdam.
00:33 Ridwan Taghi, 46, born in Morocco and growing up in the Netherlands, is accused of being
00:39 the brainchild of an organization of international gangsters, whose roots are partly in Benelux,
00:44 and commonly called "Homochromafia" due to the Moroccan origins of several of its members.
00:49 The term actually refers to a set of criminal groups considered to be one of the largest
00:54 cocaine distributors in the Netherlands.
00:56 Mr. Taghi was arrested in Dubai in 2019 and incarcerated in an ultra-secured Irish prison.
01:02 Despite this, he continued to run his gang from the inside by transmitting messages
01:07 to his accomplices outside, according to the parquet.
01:10 Due to its magnitude, the trial, called "a maringo", is unprecedented in the Netherlands, according
01:16 to observers.
01:17 The army was mobilized to secure the courts during hearings.
01:22 The prosecutors and judges went there in armored cars.
01:25 A Dutch streaming platform even made a series called "Homochromafia".
01:31 The parquet required the imprisonment to be perpetuated against Mr. Taghi and five other
01:35 people.
01:36 The other risks of the sentences range from 5 to 26 years in prison.
01:39 Crimes were perpetrated between 2015 and 2017, mainly targeting individuals suspected
01:46 by the gang of becoming police informants.
01:48 The murder in 2017 in Utrecht, the center of a man named Hakim Changachi, is considered
01:54 by the prosecution as a mistake.
01:55 Shortly after, one of the presumed gang members, identified as Nabil B. O. , went to the police
02:02 and agreed to be a witness in charge.
02:04 A new wave of violence ensues with murders that shock the country.
02:10 Three people from Nabil B's entourage were killed, his brother in 2018, his lawyer
02:16 Kouyersom in 2019 and a reputed journalist, Peter R. de Vries, considered his confidant
02:22 in 2021.
02:23 Ridouan Taghi denied all the accusations, claiming that the money spent on this simulacrum
02:28 of proceedings should rather have been invested in education, police and health, reported
02:33 the newspaper Edparoul.
02:34 None of the suspects made any statements during the trial, slowed down by several
02:39 bounces.
02:40 Then-lawyer for Mr. Taghi, Ine Weski was arrested in April 2023, suspected of helping
02:46 his client communicate with the outside world.
02:48 New lawyers appointed after the resignation, claiming not to have had enough time to
02:54 prepare.
02:55 Mr. Taghi then decides to ensure his own defense.
02:58 The file of the accusation has more than 800 pages with, in particular, elements in
03:02 charge carried out by Nabil B, who risks 10 years in prison, and conversations from
03:07 encrypted phones.
03:08 The trial lasted six years and so many things happened, said in the WNL television show
03:14 Willem-Jean Haussmann, a lawyer in criminal law.
03:17 It was not very happy.