A Moroccan national, accused of participating in "crimes of indoctrination and apology for terrorism", was arrested in Reus by the Spanish police. According to the Spanish authorities, the defendant is a great orator of the "jihadist doctrine and the ideas of Daesh".
On January 23, a man of Moroccan origin was arrested after the discovery of explosives in his home in Épinal. Indicted on January 27 by an anti-terrorism judge, the individual was then placed in pre-trial detention.
The families of French jihadists, sentenced to death in Iraq, have denounced "torture, abuse, and physical and psychological mistreatment in the Al Rosafa prison in Baghdad".
A former Moroccan jihadist recruiter, Mourad Farès, was sentenced on Friday evening in Paris to 22 years in prison for inciting dozens of young people to go to Syria and for having led a group of French-speaking fighters there.
The journalist, Zineb El Rhazoui, heard by the Senate inquiry commission on Islamic radicalization, felt that the terrorist organization "the Muslim Brotherhood" is indeed at the gates of power.
Sixteen people have been removed from the French intelligence services since 2014 "for their potential radicalization or that of their entourage". However, no radicalized person has been discovered since the massacre at the Paris Police Headquarters.
One week. This is the number of days left in the deadline set by the court for the State to provide consular assistance to ten children of Belgians who went to fight in Syria. If it does not comply, it will have to pay 50,000 euros per day and per child.
The Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) arrested, on Monday, January 20, seven individuals in Brest and in the Finistère department, as part of a judicial investigation for "criminal and terrorist conspiracy".
At the request of the Belgian federal police services, Interpol has just issued an arrest warrant against a Belgian-Moroccan, the mastermind of an international car trafficking network in Europe. The modus operandi of this cross-border criminal network consists of stealing cars in several European countries to resell them in North Africa and Eastern Europe.
A site located opposite the Laeken castle was combed through by investigators on the trail of the terrorists’ weapons, perpetrators of the March 22, 2016 attacks. This search proved fruitless.
King Mohammed VI has granted a pardon to a terrorist for health reasons. This pardon came on Saturday, January 18, a week after the one granted to 265 prisoners.
Mohamed Achamlane, self-proclaimed emir of Moroccan origin, born in Nantes in November 1977, who was serving a 9-year prison sentence, has just regained his freedom. Arrested for criminal conspiracy in connection with a terrorist enterprise, this Nantes Islamist "targeted" the Hyper Cacher.