Anass el Ajjoudi (29) shot dead on Cornelis Springerstraat

Anass el Ajjoudi, a 29-year-old man from Amsterdam nicknamed “Boeloeloe”, was shot dead at around 19:00 on Wednesday evening, 17 January 2018, on Cornelis Springerstraat in the Diamantbuurt neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Zuid. Witnesses heard several shots and saw one or possibly two men approach him. El Ajjoudi was hit by multiple bullets, including in the chest area, and collapsed on the pavement. Bystanders tried to resuscitate him, but he died at the scene from his injuries. Shortly after the shooting, witnesses saw the gunman flee in a van with a sliding door. The getaway vehicle later turned out to be a grey Ford Tourneo Connect, a distinctive type of van that had already been seen in the area about an hour before the killing. After the shooting, the vehicle was found burned out on Buitensingel in Duivendrecht. Police later showed new camera footage on Opsporing Verzocht in an attempt to solve the case. The footage showed, among other things, that the Ford Tourneo drove from Van Woustraat into Carillonstraat at around 17:45 and probably took the same route in reverse after the shooting. Anass el Ajjoudi was described by police and media as known to police and justice authorities and was linked in reports to the group around Houssine Ait Soussan and Benaouf A., which was involved in a long-running and violent conflict within the Amsterdam criminal underworld. AT5 reported that El Ajjoudi had been on a death list for years. Police also investigated what he had been doing in the period before his death, who he associated with and whether he had conflicts, but public sources do not show that this led to a final solution in the case. In March 2018, after an episode of the television programme Opsporing Verzocht showing footage of the suspects, a 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the killing; his involvement could not be proven and he was released two days later. Years later, the case resurfaced in the investigation into Ricard R., better known as “Rico de Chileen”. In April 2026, AT5/NH Nieuws reported that the Public Prosecution Service also suspected him of attempted incitement of liquidations, with Anass el Ajjoudi identified by prosecutors as one of Ricard R.’s targets. It was explicitly stated, however, that it still had to be investigated whether El Ajjoudi’s murder was actually the result of an order from Ricard R. Based on publicly available information, no one has yet been finally convicted for the liquidation of Anass el Ajjoudi, meaning that the shooter, any accomplices and the person who ordered the killing have not been legally established.