The attack that caused the death of two Moroccan nationals on September 11 in Mali continues to provoke reactions. Some already claim that it is a terrorist attack deliberately targeting Moroccans.
José Bono, former Spanish Minister of Defense, and former head of the intelligence services, said that the Moroccan intelligence services have provided useful information to their Spanish counterparts, who have succeeded in foiling several deadly attacks.
Eighteen years after the Casablanca attacks (May 16, 2003) which left 45 dead and dozens injured, the security approach adopted by Morocco to face terrorist dangers and threats seems to be producing tangible results. On Monday, the anniversary of the Casablanca attacks, the assessment drawn up by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) shows a real anti-terrorist offensive led by the kingdom internally and internationally.
The case of the attack on the Bayonne mosque is definitively closed. This is the main point to remember from the dismissal order issued by the investigating judge of the Pau Court of Appeal in charge of the case last Tuesday.
Abu Zubaydah, one of the Guantánamo detainees, has decided to file a complaint with a UN agency against Morocco , the United States and five other countries for arbitrary detention and is also demanding his outright release. His incarceration took place after the September 11 attacks. This announcement was made by his lawyer, Helen Duffy.
Hicham Chikhi, a Moroccan living in Nice, is working to highlight pebbles through art. The "Draw a Mouth" project of this man who "narrowly escaped" the July 14 attack aims to free speech.
We know a little more about Leila B., the 18-year-old Moroccan suspected of wanting to commit an attack against a church in Béziers. In her diary, she expresses her "fascination for violent death," Nazism or even the beheadings of the Islamic State.
Morocco helped France thwart an attack last Sunday in Béziers. The young woman of Moroccan origin who was arrested and was about to attack a church is facing French justice.
The federal prosecutor’s office is moving towards sending eight indictees to the assizes and two others to the correctional court in the Brussels attacks case. This is at least what its spokesperson, Eric Van der Sypt, has stated.
The "Islamic State" group is increasingly becoming a major threat to African states. During the ministerial meeting of the International Coalition against Daesh, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita called for strengthening the capacities of states and sub-regional organizations.
The Albi court sentenced in absentia on Thursday, March 18, a 33-year-old Albigeois of Moroccan origin to 18 months in prison for violence and threats with a weapon. The victim, one of his fellow citizens, had called him a "dirty terrorist" after he had been implicated in the Barcelona attacks, indicted, incarcerated and then released under judicial supervision.
One of the terrorists who participated in the March 22, 2016 attacks planned together with Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui made revelations about the late brothers. In 2014, they had committed the murder of a retiree in Jette.