With no good options, on 14 January 2017, Nabil told one of Changachi’s relatives that the murder had been ordered by Taghi. One way or another, Nabil realised, somebody was going to have him killed.
He suspected the family knew the truth, and he didn’t trust Taghi to protect him should they decide to retaliate. He knew the situation wouldn’t simply go away. He had grown up with Changachi and had attended his wedding. “I couldn’t live with that family going through hell while I perpetuated a lie,” he said. Nabil did so, but as he would later tell police, his conscience was weighing on him. Nabil claims Taghi instructed him to blame the killing on a rival gang. The Changachis soon learned of Nabil’s involvement in their son’s murder, and reached out to arrange a meeting. Changachi had been a childhood friend of his. It wasn’t only a disastrous case of mistaken identity. Rather than the intended target, the killers had hit Hakim Changachi, the 31-year-old scion of a family alleged to have gangland connections, who happened to live in the same building.
It was only once Nabil woke up the next morning to 10 missed calls that he realised things had gone wrong. They threw their weapons in a nearby canal and abandoned the Audi about a kilometre from the scene, setting it on fire before they fled. They fired multiple shots at a man on the porch, killing him instantly. On 12 January 2017, just before 2am, two men in a black Audi drove to a split-level home in Utrecht’s leafy Overvecht neighbourhood, tasked with doing just that. Taghi, who liked to describe his enemies in flamboyant terms, instructed a colleague that “the dirty whore child … must be taken out”. In December 2016, Nabil was assigned to shadow an associate suspected of leaking information to a rival cartel. While Taghi denies ever having met him, Nabil later told prosecutors that during his time working for Taghi he witnessed at least 13 murders, several of which he helped arrange. While Nabil was at the bottom of the organisation, which the press nicknamed the “Mocro Maffia” because of the Moroccan heritage of some of its members, he had some insight into what was happening at the top through his friendship with Taghi’s right-hand man, Saïd Razzouki.
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For the next 10 years, Nabil worked as a lookout for Taghi’s organisation, arranging getaway cars and gathering information about rival gang members, which would then be passed on to the “heads” – that is, professional assassins. Soon after they met, Nabil says, Taghi started giving him small jobs in the Netherlands. Taghi is now thought to share control in up to a third of all cocaine trafficking in Europe, and to be personally worth more than €1bn. He shipped a fleet of high-powered speedboats to Morocco to scale up deliveries, hired fishermen to receive shipments of cocaine and built out his empire. Around 2008, when many South American cartels decided to shift their trafficking operations from the US to Europe, using north-western Africa as a jumping-off point, Taghi was ready to accommodate them. Over the next few years, Taghi, whose nickname was Kleine, or Tiny, would become a rising star in the global cocaine trade. At the time, Taghi was living between Dubai and Morocco and making a fortune smuggling hash across the strait of Gibraltar and into the coffee shops of Amsterdam and Utrecht. Taghi was 29, about 10 years older than Nabil, but the two shared a fondness for chess and family connections to Chefchaouen, a 15th-century Moroccan city whose blue buildings are said to provide divine protection. One night in 2006, Nabil says, he met a man named Ridouan Taghi at a local shisha lounge.
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