Marengo process: ‘Nabil B. comes across as a whining child who doesn’t get the point’ | Inland

The little girl in the passenger seat was miraculously unharmed. The liquidation of her father is one of the murder cases that comes up in the mega-trial Marengo. The gunmen were arrested shortly after the murder because their getaway car would not start. They were sentenced to 22 years in prison on appeal in March this year. One of the gunmen appealed to the Supreme Court against his conviction.

According to the Public Prosecution Service, the liquidation was carried out on behalf of Ridouan Taghi, and prepared by Zakaria el H., Mohamed M., Mao R., Arthur M. and Walid M. This would appear from encrypted messages sent with Pretty Good Privacy phones. sent through accounts attributed to these suspects. The suspects deny that. Crown witness Nabil B. also says that the assignment came from Taghi, alias De Kleine.

The messages ask for ‘fast bicycles’ (cars) and ‘jerries’ (gasoline jerry cans) to be able to set the cars on fire afterwards. And also asked for ‘2 irons. walthers. And clean them well before you give them’. After the liquidation, the police found 2 Walthers in the stranded BMW.

It took a long time for the gunmen to spot Samir Erraghib. Via the gunmen, the gunmen let Taghi know that they are “still standing outside to do it.” Taghi grows impatient. “Shit talk.” He threatens to come and do the job himself and even says that the gunmen should invade the house and kill everyone there if necessary.

It didn’t get that far, Erraghib’s family went through the eye of the needle.

Absence of crown witness

The star witness was a major absentee at Wednesday’s trial. Nabil B. is at odds with the Witness Protection Team of the Public Prosecution Service about his girlfriend’s lack of security, according to him. Earlier, his brother and his lawyer were murdered.

The lawyers for the suspects in Marengo think it is time for the court to force Nabil B. to appear, but he decided not to do so yet. Lawyer Juriaan de Vries pointed out that witnesses are obliged to appear if the court calls them. That applies even more to the crown witness, who has been promised a halved sentence in exchange for his statements.

De Vries: „He is not coming and everyone is fine with that? The crown witness rules and dictates?” According to lawyer De Vries, Nabil B. comes across as “a whining child who does not get his way”, and he abuses this criminal case to get his way in another area.

De Vries and his colleague Christian Flokstra said they fully understand the position of the key witness, but pointed out that it has been known for a year and a half that the substantive treatment of the murder cases would now take place. According to the lawyers, the right of the suspects to a fair trial will be affected if it is not possible to test the statements of the key witness for truth and to question him, they say. According to the lawyers, the Public Prosecution Service and the court are being “hostage” and “blackmailing” by the key witness.

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