The appeal trial of the main defendants in the terrorist act in Imlil took place on Wednesday, October 30. The Criminal Chamber at the Court of Appeal of Salé, responsible for terrorism cases, sentenced the four main defendants to death, instead of three at first instance.
The Public Prosecutor is determined to go all the way in the case of the terrorist attack in Imlil, by actually carrying out the death sentence that had been requested against the three murderers of two Scandinavian tourists in December 2018, in the mountains of the High Atlas.
In Morocco, 59 people sentenced to death are languishing in prison, awaiting the execution of the sentence. Of these death row inmates, half are between 20 and 40 years old, according to a study published by the Moroccan Coalition against the Death Penalty.
At the end of this controversial "La Crème" café affair that shook the ochre city, the verdict of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Marrakech did not mince words. Indeed, on the night of Friday, July 26 to Saturday, July 27, 2019, this court ordered the death penalty against the two Dutch murderers.
Since Thursday, July 18, 2019, the verdict has been handed down in the trial of the murder of two Scandinavian tourists at the end of 2018. Among the 24 individuals apprehended, the three Moroccan masterminds of the crime, who had declared to have acted in the name of the "Islamic State" (IS) group, are sentenced to death, while a Genevan, Kevin Zoller Guervos, who played important roles in this crime, is sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Sentences ranging up to the death penalty have been handed down against the accused of the murder of the two young Scandinavian tourists, in December 2018, in the Imlil region.
Prosecuted for "apology for terrorism", "premeditated attack on the lives of persons" and "formation of a terrorist gang", the 24 accused in the murder of the two Scandinavians are to begin their final day in court today.
The three accused in the case of the murder of two Scandinavian tourists, in the name of the jihadist group, Islamic State (IS), have been sentenced to death. The three "bloodthirsty monsters" were sentenced at the end of the trial before the Anti-Terrorism Court in Salé, near Rabat.
Several French nationals are on the waiting list of those sentenced to death penalty around the world. In Morocco, two Frenchmen have been languishing on death row since 1994.
Two Moroccan students would have, in China, fought over a story of jealousy. And one of them would have killed the other, according to media sources. He could face the death penalty.
Khalid Elfataoui, the lawyer of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, one of the two victims of the Imlil massacre, intends to demand the death penalty as punishment for the terrorist murderers.
In Morocco as well as internationally, death sentences are declining. This is what emerges from the annual report presented on April 10, 2019, by Amnesty International on the death penalty in the world. This international organization that is committed to respecting human rights is inviting Morocco to make a little more effort.