Three members of a drug cartel involved in a series of gangland killings have been jailed for life, in the biggest criminal trial in Dutch history.
Heavily armed police stood guard outside the building, wearing body armour and balaclavas as surveillance drones buzzed overhead.
The court noted it was significant that none of the surviving relatives of the gang’s victims made use of the right to speak or submitted a claim as an injured party, such is the fear and vulnerability they still feel.
Nabil B was found guilty of being complicit and an accessory to murder, but handed a lesser sentence of 10 years due to personal circumstances and the role he played in bringing his former accomplices to justice.
A week after it became public knowledge, in early 2018, that Nabil B had turned informant and cut a deal with prosecutors as a key witness, his brother was shot dead.
Then, in July 2021, his confidante, the investigative journalist Peter R de Vries, was shot on a summer evening after leaving a TV studio in central Amsterdam.
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Three members of a drug cartel involved in a series of gangland killings have been jailed for life, in the biggest criminal trial in Dutch history.
Heavily armed police stood guard outside the building, wearing body armour and balaclavas as surveillance drones buzzed overhead.
The court noted it was significant that none of the surviving relatives of the gang’s victims made use of the right to speak or submitted a claim as an injured party, such is the fear and vulnerability they still feel.
Nabil B was found guilty of being complicit and an accessory to murder, but handed a lesser sentence of 10 years due to personal circumstances and the role he played in bringing his former accomplices to justice.
A week after it became public knowledge, in early 2018, that Nabil B had turned informant and cut a deal with prosecutors as a key witness, his brother was shot dead.
Then, in July 2021, his confidante, the investigative journalist Peter R de Vries, was shot on a summer evening after leaving a TV studio in central Amsterdam.
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