Morocco Foils Terror Plot: Five Arrested in Multi-City Raid

Their arrest took place during several separate and simultaneous security operations in Kenitra, Larache, Souk sebt ouled nemma, Taroudant and Marrakech, according to a statement from the BCIJ.

The searches carried out at the homes of the defendants led to the seizure of equipment and electronic media, as well as manuscripts praising Daesh and knives of various sizes.

According to the preliminary data of the investigation, the five extremists aged between 21 and 44 are involved in the incitement and preparation of terrorist projects, as they have started to collect extremist content on the manufacture of explosive devices.

The suspects have set themselves terrorist objectives specific to each of them and which all overlap in the method and techniques of individual terrorism. These contents extol the style of physical liquidation and desecration of corpses adopted by Daesh, in addition to the adoption of extremist ideas on the takfirism of society and representatives of public authorities and make the spoils of operations halal.