The new director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), Habboub Cherkaoui, stated that 1,137 Moroccan jihadists and their families, detained in the camps in northern Syria, are awaiting repatriation.
Haboub Cherkaoui, director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), states that "the Sahel represents a great danger, and a major security challenge for Morocco", including the neighboring countries. The proof is that terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda and ISIS are present there.
The appeal trial of the Islamic State fighter returned from Syria to Belgium, Noura Firoud, widow of one of the founders of Sharia4Belgium, has been postponed to May 6. This is the decision that has just been made by the Brussels Correctional Court.
Sentences of 20 to 30 years have been requested against three alleged jihadists, including a Moroccan, all on trial since February 1 for a planned terrorist attack in Paris. Planned in December 2016, this terrorist act had been thwarted thanks to a cyberinfiltration operation by the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) within the Islamic State.
The Belgo-Moroccan jihadist Gelel Attar has displayed, through his lawyer, his opposition to the deprivation of his Belgian nationality before the Brussels criminal court. This deprivation had been pronounced last July after his conviction in the "Zerkani" case for acts of terrorism, his alleged involvement in the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris.
Belgian justice has been examining since Tuesday, February 2, the charges against 20 alleged accomplices of the perpetrators of the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris. This step precedes the trial that should be held at the end of the year in Brussels.
Two Frenchmen and a Moroccan have been appearing since Monday before a special criminal court for terrorism. They are being tried for "membership of an armed gang for the purpose of committing terrorist acts," a crime for which they can be sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Laila Kasmi and Ibtissam Haouzi are the latest Moroccan detainees to be sentenced by an Iraqi court. Like them, 17 other Moroccans, detained for many years in the El Hout prison, await the day of their execution.
Cherkaoui Habboub, current director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ) , regrets "the total lack of security cooperation with Algeria" in the fight against terrorism, while the phenomenon "threatens [...] all the countries in the Sahel region".
Morocco through the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) provided useful information to the United States, which managed to thwart bloody attacks. A radicalized US Army soldier who was preparing these attacks with the complicity of ISIS has been curbed in his momentum.
Parliament is preparing to hear Daesh members next week as part of an exploratory mission on Moroccans stranded in Syria and Iraq. Numbering 6, these former fighters will enter this institution for the first time.
Actors in the hit film "Mosul" shot in Morocco and released on Netflix are being threatened with death by the terrorist organization ISIS.