Unknowns shot at a building on Boomsesteenweg in Wilrijk on Saturday night. Police arrived on the scene and determined a single bullet impact. The targeted home is that of Marzouk D., a notorious ex-porter of the Zillion disco. No one was injured.
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The incident took place around 5.30 am on Boomsesteenweg, along the viaduct of the A12. “The police established a perimeter and the judicial lab came to the scene for trace evidence,” said spokesman Willem Migom of the Antwerp police. One bullet impact could be detected in the front door. No one was injured. The federal judicial police are conducting further investigations, the Antwerp public prosecutor’s office has requested an investigating judge for violations of the arms law and destruction of closures.
Recently, an attempt was also made to set fire to one of the cars in the driveway of the house. A possible link with the drug environment is therefore being investigated. The targeted home is that of Marzouk D. (48), a notorious figure in the Antwerp criminal environment. At the end of the 90s, D. was one of the bouncers of disco Zillion in the South of Antwerp. He would have played a prominent role in an attempted murder of an ex-bookkeeper of Frank Verstraeten in 2001, but was acquitted in that case.
Careerswitch
A year later, D. had to go to jail. He was sentenced to two years in prison for a deadly shooting in 2000 in which another doorman died at dancing The Maxx in Haasdonk. After that, Marzouk D. went full for a career switch. With the money he had earned for years at the Zillion, he invested in real estate all over Antwerp. The Pit Stop, a supermarket in the Abdijstraat that the D. family has been running for years, also received a serious expansion.
Marzouk D.’s financial dealings did not go unnoticed by the police. It launched a financial investigation in 2011 after it received information that D.’s proceeds would come from drug trafficking and that that money was being laundered on a large scale. In 2013, the police raided the Pit Stop, but in 2016 D. was acquitted for the alleged money laundering. The criminal court did have questions about the large amounts that D. had invested, but did not find it proven that the money had an illegal origin.
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