The man who was found last week in the trunk of a burning car on the Eilandje in Antwerp is a notorious French criminal, according to the Gazet van Antwerpen. It would be Mourad Kharbouch (34, alias The General).. Kharbouch is from Dunkirk. He is a well-known in the French drug environment and has been convicted several times. He already received a 10-year prison sentence.
Kharbouch was shot before he was put in the trunk of an Opel Corsa with French license plate.The French newspaper La Voix du Nord reports that Kharbouch was also tortured before he was shot dead.