Othman El Ballouti, 37, is one of the first cocaine traffickers to fructify his illegal activities in Dubai. Since his last conviction in 2013, he has disappeared from the radar. He is not the subject of any arrest or search warrant.
Last Sunday, in Hoboken, near Antwerp, a young couple, Amy, 20, and Hamid, 23, experienced a personal tragedy with the sudden death of their four-week-old daughter Nadia Nour. Following this death, described as "suspicious" by the authorities, they were taken to the police station and questioned for about ten hours before being released.
While he is on a trip to Morocco, a man living on the first floor of a building located on the Sint-Bernardsesteenweg in Hoboken (Antwerp) learns that the residence has been the target of a fire. Four Dutch people have been arrested and an investigation is underway to shed light on this case.
Samir El Y., an Antwerp man in his fifties, was arrested in Morocco a month ago. Nicknamed "Patatje" or "Samir Turtle", he is suspected of international drug trafficking, particularly of ecstasy.
Mohammed Enniya, his wife and their three children risk finding themselves on the street in the coming days. The Moroccan family has been trying in vain for more than a year to find new housing after the expiration of their rental contract.
Mohamed J., arrested in Morocco in 2009 and sentenced to ten years in prison after his escape from Bruges prison aboard a helicopter with Ashraf Sekkaki alias "The King of Escape", was sentenced on Friday by the Antwerp Correctional Court to forty months in prison for cocaine trafficking and one year in prison for illegal possession of weapons.
Drug trafficker Youssef "Benz" Ben Azza, 37, faces a heavy prison sentence. With his well-structured criminal organization, he imported and marketed more than fifteen tons of cocaine through the port of Antwerp in 2020.
Escaped from the Bruges prison in 2009 with the famous Malinois criminal of Moroccan origin Ashraf Sekkaki on board a helicopter, Mohammed J. appeared last Thursday before the Antwerp court for cocaine trafficking and possession of weapons. The prosecution requested a four-year prison sentence against him.
The Moroccan kickboxer Jamal Ben Saddik has been released on parole following his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a 29-year-old Antwerp resident. This decision was handed down this week by the Antwerp indictment chamber, according to the public prosecutor’s office.
Raid in Antwerp: fake cops steal a fortune in cocaine from Ridouan Taghi’s group. A gang of fake cops is sowing chaos in the criminal underworld of Antwerp and the Netherlands.
Four Moroccans detained in the Wortel prison, near Antwerp, tried to escape during the night from Monday to Tuesday. Too bad for them, their project did not prosper.
The Federal Judicial Police (FJP) of Antwerp has arrested a new suspect as part of the investigation into the murder of Firdaous, the 11-year-old girl killed by a bullet in January 2023, at the home of her parents in Merksem.