The hunt for Sami Bekal Bounouare: 50,000 euros for a mastermind of the Mocro Maffia

Dutch police are offering a reward of 50,000 euros to anyone who helps them locate and arrest Sami Bekal Bounouare, a 27-year-old Spaniard of Moroccan origin, considered the mastermind of the criminal network that attempted to assassinate Spanish politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras on November 9, 2023 in Madrid.

Of Spanish and Moroccan nationality, Sami Bekal Bounouare had left Spain a few days before the attack. Aged 27, the 1.85m young man was born in Palma de Mallorca and speaks Dutch, Spanish, French, Darija and English. In criminal circles, he calls himself Colomo, Pacho, Pachito or Swilleh, reports The Spanish. The suspect had lived in the Netherlands since 2010 and would have links with the Mocro Maffia, the Moroccan mafia specializing in drug trafficking and organized crime in the Netherlands and Belgium.