Assassination commandos Dutch underworld ravage Spanish Costas
By JOHN VAN DEN HEUVEL AND MICK VAN WELY

24 Jan. 2022
in INTERIOR

The liquidation of the Utrecht citizen Ibrahim 'The Butcher' Buzhu (52) in Spain last week is a new chapter in a book full of violence around Dutch criminals on the Costas. They often stay there for the drug trade and they feel safe there, but they are far from that.

In the summer of 2018, a policeman collects bullets between bales of cocaine, after a sailing ship with 1500 kilos was intercepted in Cadiz.

In the quiet town of Chiclana de la Frontera, near the port city of Cadiz, a burned-out car containing the body of a man was found last Sunday. He appeared to have been shot in the head. Police sources in Spain speak of possible torture, after which Buzhu had to get on his knees and was executed.

The town plays a role in the liquidation process Eris around the biker gang Caloh Wagoh. The later key witness Tony de G. was arrested on October 13, 2017. He had fled the Netherlands after the murder of the Amsterdam criminal Jair Wessels, in which he participated.

The man who has now been liquidated there is Ibrahim 'The Butcher' Buzhu (52). A man who is best known as the person who first made a statement to the police in 2015 about the detained top criminal and Marengo chief suspect Ridouan Taghi, as well as his right-hand man and also detainee Saïd Razzouki. De Telegraaf revealed its contents at the time.

The group around Taghi was hunting for Buzhu, he told the detectives. He was always aware of the danger he continued to run. Was the dumping of Buzhu's body in Chiclana de la Frontera symbolic because Tony de G. was staying there? Who talks who goes?

Tension
Butcher was very aware of the dangers posed by his enemy Taghi. In recent years he led a nomadic life. He considered southern Spain to be safe because he knew his way around well. Wrongly, as it turned out on Thursday evening when the news of the liquidation reached the Utrecht underworld.

The last year of Buzhu's life was full of tension. In June, Spanish police seized a large consignment of drugs. Butcher was one of the owners and fled headlong to France. The stress of constantly having to look over the shoulder for police and criminal opponents resulted in heart problems. He moved to the Netherlands, where he had to be admitted to an Eindhoven hospital due to heart complaints.

Dutch assassination squad arrested in Spain

The Dutch-Moroccan Buzhu was traditionally a hashish trader and therefore mainly resided in Spain, which plays an important role in the trade in hashish from Morocco. Spain has been a popular base for Dutch criminals since the 1960s. Money is easy to launder in real estate, the country is strategically convenient for drug smuggling and has large ports for drug imports. In addition, it is simply a beautiful country with an excellent climate. It is not for nothing that criminals from all over the world do business there. Criminally 'vipping' under the sun.

The Heineken kidnappers Willem Holleeder and Cor van Hout were frequent visitors, drug dealer Henk 'De Zwarte Cobra' R. was arrested in 2003 and murder broker and key witness Fred Ros of the liquidation process Passage was also on a campsite when he was caught. The 'coke broker' Naima Jillal, who disappeared in 2019, brought parties together from and in Spain for the smuggling of cocaine.

Motorcycle clubs
After roughly 2010, chapters of Dutch motorcycle clubs sprang up in Spain. No Surrender and Satudarah, among others, opened countless chapters, especially along the coast. And the mocro mafia also set foot in that era. Mainly using old smuggling routes and contacts from the hash trade. The contraband got whiter and whiter.

Cocaine is much more profitable. The liquidated Buzhu described this change in detail to the criminal investigation department in 2015.

With the introduction of coke came the violence. In 2013, the Haarlem criminal Frank 'Pancake' was riddled with bullets in front of his house in Marbella and a year later it was the turn of the Amsterdam cocaine giant Samir 'Sammy Scarface' Bouyakhrichan (34). Since then it has happened almost every year. Sometimes several times.

“Today we are more bothered by murder commandos, especially from the Netherlands, than from drug smuggling,” concludes Manuel González of the Guardia Civil in Cadiz. Shootings, kidnappings and underworld murders plague the Costas. This summer, another murder squad from the Netherlands was rounded up in Spain.

Manuel González: "More trouble with assassination squads."

According to Gonzáles, there is another reason for the presence of many criminals in Spain. "They can live here quite anonymously because so many Europeans have settled here." For example, criminals like to stay in the Urbanizacións: closed and secured residential areas where they can live fairly anonymously.

In October 2018 the Utrecht Hamza Ziani was liquidated in Torremolinos. Ziani, an explosives specialist, belonged to a camp that was at war with Ridouan Taghi. And now it was Buzhu's turn. Whether the murder actually stems from the feud with the group around Taghi remains to be seen. In the trade, nothing is what it seems and the enemies are many.


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