Nov 17, 2023 at 2:37 p.m
A new witness has unexpectedly come forward in the case surrounding the murder of Derk Wiersum. The unknown person says that Sezer B. and Anouar Taghi did not know that there were plans to kill the lawyer of the key witness in the Marengo trial.
The anonymous person sent an email to the Amsterdam court on Thursday evening. In the email, which is signed ‘Mr. X’, he says that he kept an eye on Wiersum’s office and house together with Sezer B.
According to this person, there was no question of an observation in preparation for a murder. “The task was not to observe Wiersum. But to confront him with violence to make Nabil (key witness in the Marengo trial, ed.) take back his statements and lies,” said Mr X.
The witness says he knows this because he was the one who had to “get” Wiersum. Because they never met the lawyer, nothing ever happened, the man says.
One of Anouar Taghi’s lawyers, Bas Janssen, confirms the report to NU.nl Het Parool that the court has been asked to stay the case against Anouar Taghi for further investigation into the statement. On Tuesday, Anouar Taghi and Sezer B. were sentenced to 26 years and 8 months and eighteen years in prison respectively. “It shouldn’t get any crazier,” said the witness.
Liquidation executors already sentenced to thirty years in prison
Wiersum was murdered in front of his home in Amsterdam on September 18, 2019. Moreno B. and Giërmo B. were sentenced on appeal at the beginning of this year to thirty years in prison for carrying out the liquidation.
The case against Anouar Taghi and Sezer B., among others, concerns making Wiersum’s murder possible. They allegedly kept an eye on the lawyer and passed this information on to the shooters.
Taghi allegedly had cars stolen with which Wiersum could be followed. B. requested information from the Chamber of Commerce and thus obtained Wiersum’s home address, according to the Public Prosecution Service (OM).
Witness says he was in contact with Ridouan Taghi
The anonymous witness says that Anouar Taghi never knew that Wiersum was posting. That would mean that the Public Prosecution Service’s suspicions are far too strong.
After the arrest of Anouar Taghi in November 2019, the witness says he had contact with Ridouan Taghi. Mr. Anouar would know nothing and would therefore be released quickly, was Ridouan’s prediction. According to the witness, Ridouan was involved in the Wiersum case, without specifying this.
According to the witness, the above messages were sent with telephones that Ridouan Taghi had in his possession during his arrest in December 2019 in Dubai. These should therefore be available to the Public Prosecution Service.
The witness also claims that camera images must show that he was in a car with Sezer B. while waiting for Wiersum. A neighbor of the lawyer is also said to have seen them.
The court must now decide whether the Public Prosecution Service should start working again
According to Janssen, there are indeed indications in the file that, in addition to B., a second person was in a car with whom Wiersum was being monitored. The lawyer asks the court to instruct the Public Prosecution Service to investigate this further, just like the other claims in the email.
The court is now considering this. If the court agrees, the case against Anouar Taghi and Sezer B. must be postponed. The Public Prosecution Service says it will respond to the statement at a later date, but cannot say when.
A plea would be made on behalf of Taghi on Thursday, November 23.
2023-11-17 13:37:40
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