Terror Cell in Morocco Plotted Attacks on Tourists, Religious Sites, and Royal Advisor

The terrorist cell, which also includes an imam and a former soldier, planned to carry out a series of attacks against tourists, churches, Jewish mausoleums, as well as festivals and personalities, reports the magazine Jeune Afrique. Among these personalities, André Azoulay, advisor to King Mohammed VI, whose property in Marrakech was to be set on fire.

It is also a question of Mohamed Ben Abderrahmane El Maghraoui, a "moderate" Salafist, described as a "servant of the infidels", who was to be beheaded, the same source specifies.

Still according to Jeune Afrique, the Spanish-Swiss origin, Kevin Zoller-Guervos "had specialized in the recruitment of sub-Saharan migrants for the "cause" and paramilitary training in paintball clubs.