13 January 2026
The Antwerp Correctional Court handed down its verdict this Tuesday, January 13, 2026 in one of the most closely followed cases of Belgian drug trafficking. Nordin El Hajjioui, (…)
7 November 2025
The highly anticipated opening of six trials related to drug trafficking in Antwerp was marked by a courtroom incident this Friday. The main defendant, Nordin E. H., alias (…)
29 October 2025
Just like the first one, the second request for recusal filed against a judge by the lawyers of Dikke Nordin El Hajjioui, who is being prosecuted in the "Bombs and Grenades" (…)
8 May 2025
After months of postponements, the trial of Dikke Nordin El Hajjioui in the "Bombs and Grenades" case was supposed to be held this Wednesday. But the Moroccan-born defendant (…)
13 April 2025
The Antwerp court has sentenced in absentia Omar Govers alias "Patje Haemers", one of the city’s most notorious drug-related criminals, whose accomplices are Belgian-Moroccans (…)
24 January 2025
Nordin El Hajjioui, nicknamed "Dikke Nordin", will be tried on May 7 by the Antwerp Correctional Court in the "Bombs and Grenades" case. This file, which deals with arms and (…)
4 April 2024
The United Arab Emirates has extradited Nordin El Hajjioui, the suspected drug baron accused of large-scale cocaine trafficking, illegal arms trade, and drug-related violence, (…)
30 March 2024
Extradited by the United Arab Emirates, the drug trafficker Nordin El Hajjioui (35 years old), alias Dikke Nordin, arrived on Friday in Antwerp on a military plane that landed (…)
9 March 2024
The Emirati justice system has authorized the extradition to Belgium of Nordin El Hajjioui, alias Dikke Nordin, an Antwerp drug lord who has taken refuge in Dubai for years.
3 January 2024
After the very first extradition of a drug lord from the United Arab Emirates to Belgium, the noose is tightening around the Belgian-Moroccan drug traffickers living in Dubai.