Imlil Attack Suspects Sought Alliance with Boko Haram, Trial Reveals

During a meeting held in Lalla Takerkoust, 40 km from Marrakech, Abdessamad El Joud and his accomplices had met two Cameroonians with a view to setting up a large network of sub-Saharan Africans. The discussions revolved around the recruitment of new militants to their cause, and a possible rapprochement with the terrorists of the "Boko Haram" group.

According to the newspaper Al Allam, the strategy of the head of the terrorist cell, Abdessamad El Joud, was to use "the knowledge of their future recruits in order to develop illegal circulation routes between the African borders".

It should be recalled that the trial of the 24 defendants accused of the murder of the two Scandinavian tourists, scheduled for yesterday, May 16, has been postponed to May 30 by the criminal chamber of first instance in charge of terrorism cases near the annex of the Court of Appeal of Salé.