French Justice Declares 78-Year-Old Woman Killed in Morocco a "Victim of Terrorism"

The mention "Victim of terrorism" is included on Christiane Fourret’s death certificate, a native of Paris and resident of the Var region, as specified in a decree dated March 9 published in the Official Journal last Saturday. A 31-year-old man had fatally attacked this French woman with a bladed weapon at the municipal market in Tiznit before fleeing on January 15. He was later arrested in Agadir, where he stabbed a Belgian national who was taken to the hospital for necessary treatment.

After his arrest, the aggressor was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Suspecting "a terrorist motive for the crime", the Moroccan public prosecutor’s office had opened an investigation into the murder of the French national, an investigation that it had entrusted to the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ). On the French side, the French National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) had opened an investigation for "assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise".