Utrecht drug trafficker Ebrahim Buzhu (52) has been liquidated in southern Spain. ‘The Butcher’, as he was known in the milieu, was regarded as Ridouan Taghi’s arch-rival, and in the summer of 2015 was the first to tell police how powerful Taghi and his organization had become.

Buzhu’s body was found on Sunday in a burned-out car on a country road near Chiclana de la Frontera, a town just south of the port city of Cádiz. He appeared to have been shot in the head.