Chafik was shot around 3:00 in the morning on February 5 and died on the spot. A year earlier he was already the target of an attack. In April 2015 he was shot in the port city on the Mathenesserbrug as he sat in a car. He walked only a slight head wound.

On 27 June the same year he was himself involved in a shooting in Rotterdam Essenburgstraat which killed a 27-year old Dutchman. A 41-year-old man of Turkish origin, who would have fired the fatal shots, was arrested shortly after the incident. He is still in custody. Chafik and another suspect were arrested but later set free by the court. On the day of his murder kept the police in Bosnia “a 37-year-old suspect in connection with the case.

The police are now looking for a connection between the shootings and and doing Tuesday in the Investigation Requested program called on witnesses to report