Key Witness Reveals Grisly Details of Spanish Drug Lord "El Nene’s" Murder

For years, deputies suspected that El Nene had faked his own death to live in hiding and enjoy his money away from the spotlight. But in 2019, a witness to the murder, protected by the Civil Guard, revealed the circumstances of El Nene’s death. "They were waiting for him to bleed out to take him out to sea, and tie him to an anchor," he said.

According to the information accessed by NIUS, El Nene would have been murdered in Morocco by two of his collaborators: Sofian Ahmed Barrak, alias Zocato, and Jalil Mohamed Dris, known as Jalal El Loco. The two, according to the statements of the protected witness, associated to kill El Nene in order to take control of the drug trafficking in the region. "El Nene had had problems with Zocato who was tired of paying him commissions. Zocato asked Jalil for help to plan El Nene’s death, in exchange for a large sum of money," the witness said.

"I went to pick up the alleged hitman at the Ibis hotel in Fnideq, him and two or three Moroccans I didn’t know," the protected witness recounts, adding that he then went to Jalil’s place, where he saw him with an AK-47 assault rifle and several small-caliber weapons. He specifies that Jalil told him that Zocato and "a French black hitman" had gone to get El Nene who was at sea, off the coast of Marina Smir. After colliding with his boat, Zocato identified El Nene to the hitman who drew his weapon and waited for him to emerge from the water to shoot him in the head.

El Nene’s death was the subject of an investigation both in Morocco and in Spain. The Moroccan justice system had even arrested and convicted Jalil El Loco and Zocato for the alleged murder of El Nene. Subsequently, Jalil El Loco fled Morocco, while continuing the drug trafficking in Spain. He later lost his life in a shootout in Ceuta. As for Zocato, he died in the summer of 2018 in Marbella.