The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is demanding 29 years and 9 months against suspect Noureddine H.. According to the Public Prosecution Service, he is the alleged perpetrator of the murder of the innocent Djordy Latumahina. Djordy was shot dead in his car in 2016 because the shooter thought he was someone else. Djordy’s girlfriend was sitting next to him and was seriously injured. H. is suspected as a result of cracked chat messages, he is also said to play a key role in a planned assassination attempt in Berlin and he is said to be part of a criminal organization.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, Noureddine H. (43) is the man who gave the order to kill drug criminal Gino M. in 2016. The officer calls it ‘provoking’ Djordy’s murder. While the drug criminal was targeted on Saturday, October 8, 2016, this plan turned out differently and went horribly wrong.
The innocent Djordy Latumahina, his girlfriend and daughter are sitting in their car in the parking garage under their home on Koningin Wilhelminaplein. Djordy is behind the wheel and has just driven away. At that moment they are shot with an automatic weapon. Djordy dies immediately from, as the public prosecutor calls it, ‘a hail of bullets’. His girlfriend is also hit and seriously injured. Miraculously, the child is not hit.
Djordy’s girlfriend had to recuperate for a long time. She has since recovered well, but has suffered permanent injuries from the shooting. She can barely use her right hand, her muscles have failed.
It later emerged that Latumahina drove the same car and lived in the same complex as the intended victim. According to the Public Prosecution Service, H. is therefore guilty of Latumahina’s death.
‘It’s not me’
According to the Public Prosecution Service, it is clear from cracked PGP messages that H. gave orders for the murder of Gino M.. Noureddine H. was arrested in May 2021 after cracking the messages. The court decided in the summer of last year that more research was needed into the encrypted messages and postponed the substantive hearing until today.
There are several chat accounts to which H.’s name is linked, which can be deduced from, among other things, language and way of talking; for example, he would make certain language errors several times. H. previously denied that he wrote the messages that were hacked. “I am innocent, I don’t belong here, I belong with my children,” he said earlier. But according to the Public Prosecution Service, he gave the ‘go’ for the murder of Gino M. and he paid money to the men previously convicted for the murder of Djordy.
Even today he says he is innocent: “I’m not, so I can’t say more than yes or no,” he says. One of the other people involved, ‘planner’ Cedric R., says he knows H., but the other way around is not the case, the suspect explains: “I don’t have to know everyone who knows me, do I?” In all messages read out by the judge, H. says that he knows nothing about this.
H. does not want to say much during the hearing about how this affects him. But in a letter he wrote earlier he says that it bothers him a lot. He writes that he is very sad about it and hopes that the truth will come out. He expresses his condolences to the relatives.
Djordy’s mother exercised her right to speak today: “Losing your child is the most painful thing that can ever happen to you,” she begins. Her voice breaks: “The bullet holes in his head and his body, I will never be able to get rid of that image. The immense sadness and loss will never disappear.”
Previous punishments
Latumahina’s murder has seven previous convictions, including on appeal. For example, the shooter Djurgen W. had to go to prison for 30 years and other people involved were given sentences of up to 26 years. Noureddine H. was arrested in Marbella, Spain in 2021. He was in hiding there and had been watched by the local police for some time.
In addition to the murder of Latumahina, the suspect is also on trial for the planned assassination of Naoufal F. – better known as Noffel – and leading a criminal organization. The same approach would have been used in that assassination attempt as in the murder being dealt with today. He is part of the partnership that the previously convicted men form, for example he paid monthly wages to Cedric R.
Himself in the background
According to the public prosecutor, the fact that H. himself did not carry out the murder should not lead to a lower sentence than the shooters. She mentions that without H. the others would not have been involved in these facts. “He chooses to stay in the background and let others do the work.”
According to lawyer Popperlaars, who represents the suspect, the evidence is not strong enough. The Public Prosecution Service would “throw everything together” and the lawyer would miss information that could possibly be relevant to the conviction or not. The Public Prosecution Service’s assessment is too suggestive, he believes.
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