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Law firm Ficq & Partners is leaving the Marengo liquidation process

The lawyers of the Ficq & Partners firm are stopping the Marengo process. They will no longer assist their three clients in the appeal, lawyer Nico Meijering confirms after reports from the ANP news agency. When asked, Meijering would not say why the law firm dropped its defense.

The office announced in May last year that it would no longer assist suspects in lawsuits in which a crown witness plays a role. It is "irresponsible and unworkable," lawyers Flokstra and Meijering said at the time.

After the Public Prosecution Service announced in 2018 that Nabil B. was a key witness in the Marengo case, his brother, his lawyer Derk Wiersum and his confidant Peter R. de Vries were murdered.

The Marengo criminal case is largely based on information from Nabil B. He made incriminating statements about his co-suspects and, according to the court, this led to the solution of five murders. At the end of February, all seventeen suspects in the liquidation trial were found guilty.

Former best friend
Mohamed R., one of Ficq & Partners' clients, was sentenced to 27 years in prison. He was the best friend of Nabil B., who also made incriminating statements about him during the trial. The other two suspects who were assisted by Ficq & Partners received prison sentences of 23 years, 4 months and 5.5 years respectively.

Main suspect Ridouan Taghi and two co-suspects have been sentenced to life imprisonment. All three will appeal against that ruling. The Public Prosecution Service will appeal against the verdict against seven suspects in the Marengo trial.

The appeal will begin with a preparatory hearing in about two weeks. It is not yet known who will assist the three clients of Ficq & Partners there.