Casablanca Attack Mastermind Faces Appeal Hearing After 17-Year Exile
Sentenced in the first instance to the death penalty, the mastermind of the attacks, Said Mansour, has appealed. He should appear very soon before the Court of Appeal of Casablanca to answer for his crime which caused 33 deaths and about a hundred injured.
After the Casablanca massacre, the accused, who fled Morocco, took refuge for 17 years in Denmark where he applied for asylum, recalls Akhbar Al Yaoum. Becoming a bookseller in Copenhagen, he remained very active with several terrorist groups. This earned him convictions and later the loss of his Danish nationality.
Following an international arrest warrant, he was arrested and extradited to Morocco as part of bilateral cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Thanks to the additional investigations carried out by the BNPJ, the accused was sentenced to death, 17 years later, while most of the people involved had been sentenced to death for several years.
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