Mohamed Louarti, a radicalized Moroccan who considers himself a "soldier" of the Islamic State, has accepted a sentence of two and a half years in prison for a crime of passive indoctrination. His defense managed to reach this agreement with the prosecution, which had requested eight years in prison against him for a crime of integration into a terrorist organization.
The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) is not letting up in the fight against terrorism. On Tuesday, it arrested two suspected terrorists affiliated with Daesh, very active in Aït Melloul and the commune of Oulad Berhil, near Taroudant.
In Hamburg, a German Daesh follower beheaded his wife, a woman of Moroccan origin. The alleged murderer, who recently converted to Islam, frequents a mosque known for its affiliation with the Turkish community and its radical orientation.
One of the two Moroccan suspected jihadists arrested in Bolaños de Calatrava (Ciudad Real) in May 2020 was sentenced to two years in prison for indoctrination. The second was released. The prosecution had requested three and a half years in prison against them.
Two suspected jihadists, originally from Morocco, arrested in May 2020 in Bolaños de Calatrava (Spain), face three and a half years in prison. They will be informed of their fate next Tuesday.
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, through the DGST, enabled the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) of France to arrest last Sunday in Béziers, five women including one of Moroccan origin. One of them is suspected of wanting to commit a violent act.
The agents of the special force of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) have referred the four members of the terrorist cell linked to Daesh dismantled in Oujda to the public prosecutor’s office.
The Daesh-linked jihadist cell recently dismantled in Morocco was planning to attack a border military post in order to provoke an armed conflict between the kingdom and Algeria.
The director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ), Habboub Cherkaoui, provided more details on the operation to dismantle the Oujda terrorist cell . For him, there is no doubt that this terrorist cell, affiliated with Daesh and composed of 4 people who have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State, were planning to carry out terrorist actions in Morocco.
A terrorist cell affiliated with the Islamic State, composed of four extremists aged between 24 and 28 active in the city of Oujda, was dismantled this Thursday morning by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ). The dismantling of this terrorist cell and the thwarting of its imminent extremist plans were carried out thanks to close coordination between the DGST services and the American intelligence services.
Zuhair Ahmed, a Spanish man of Moroccan origin living in Ceuta, is still in Syria. Unrepentant about his past as a jihadist, he recounts his story in a long interview with El País .