Moroccan Intelligence Aids Greece in Capture of Former ISIS Operative

According to a security source, the Greek security services arrested the 28-year-old Moroccan jihadist alias Abou Mohamed Al Fateh last Tuesday, reports the MAP. He held positions of responsibility within the operational brigades of Daesh on the Syrian scene. In 2014, he had joined the ranks of the terrorist organization of Daesh in Syria, where he carried out important missions within the "special brigade" in the Deir ez-Zor region and within the "religious police" or "hisba" in the Raqqa governorate. The defendant had appeared in a video showing an operation targeting a Syrian fighter using a war weapon, in flagrant desecration of his corpse and swearing to fight those he called the "enemies of religion".

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The suspect had managed to escape the war zones to join Greece. He was using false documents and a false identity before being identified, located and arrested as part of a joint security operation. The fingerprinting operation in the Interpol criminal database revealed that the suspect was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the Moroccan judicial authorities. He would be involved in the preparation of large-scale terrorist projects and subversive operations in Morocco, at the instigation of the former spokesman of the Islamic State, the same source said.

This arrest is the result of joint coordination operations and intelligence sharing carried out within the framework of multilateral security cooperation. They involved the participation of Moroccan security services and their counterparts in Greece, Italy, England and the United States. For now, the Moroccan judicial authorities are in talks with the competent authorities in Greece for the sending of an official extradition request.