Dockworker who, bombarded with grenades, get 40 months in prison for help with entry 471 kilos of cocaine

Antwerp, The 26-year-old dock worker Tarik B. from Deurne is sentenced to 40 months in prison for his involvement in the importation of 471 kg of cocaine. He had suspicious movements made with a container on containerkaai 1742. The man was in march last year, the target of an attack with two hand grenades.

Tarik B. working as a straddle carrier driver at the terminal of PSA in the port of antwerp. Per shift resistance 80 to 100 containers. “Only containers that have the planner on my on-board computer function, do I move. Never I take just a container. I have here all have nothing to do with it,” said the dock worker during his process.

The prosecutor accused him of running a “switch”. Tarik B. had on 9 march 2018 a container from Panama, laden with coffee, moved. Then he would be a European container next to the South American container. The containers remained for half an hour, after which they again were placed. So would a load of 471 kg of cocaine offloaded from the closely guarded container from Panama to the European container. That don't usually by the douanescanner for he the port can leave.

For the attorney, it was also a sign on the wall that Tarik B. the target of an attack with two hand grenades. Just in the period that the 471 kg of cocaine arrived in Antwerp, exploded near the house of Tarik B. in the Heysveltstraat in Deurne two hand grenades. Fifteen cars were damaged.