The French forces in Mali killed, a month ago, in the Sahel, the number two of the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM) affiliated with Al-Qaeda, the Moroccan, Ali Maychou.
A "totally unbalanced" and naked Moroccan man caused panic on a TGV train from Stuttgart to Paris on Tuesday, November 5. The police services arrested him, placed him in custody, before hospitalizing him in a psychiatric ward.
The opening of the passage in the city of Sebta did not take place on October 28 as planned. Moroccan and Spanish authorities have decided to keep the passage closed to prevent possible infiltration of certain terrorists and threats of attacks.
Infected with the AIDS virus, a Moroccan fighter of the Islamic State, who has lived for a long time in Molenbeek, Belgium, refuses to be repatriated to his country of origin.
In its annual report on terrorism in the world published on Friday, the US Department congratulated the Kingdom for its fight against the scourge, while noting that "the United States and Morocco maintain an excellent and long-standing cooperation" in this field.
Several sweeping operations have been organized by the security services in northern Morocco, in order to neutralize dangerous individuals who would have taken refuge in the forests.
The expertise carried out on the suspicious substances seized following the dismantling of the Daesh terrorist cell revealed chemical products used in the manufacture of explosives and a deadly poison whose effects are dangerous to humans, according to a statement from the Ministry of the Environment.
Convicted at first instance to five years in prison and a fine of 8,000 euros last year, Tatiana Wielandt and Bouchra Aboullal, two widows of jihadists, saw their sentence confirmed on appeal, on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, by the Antwerp Criminal Court.
Nearly a month after the attack carried out at the Paris Police Prefecture, 7 police officers have been "disarmed following their reporting" on suspicion of radicalization.
Held in the Al-Roj camp, in the hands of the Kurdish militia, a Belgian mother and her children must be repatriated by the Belgian state from Syria within 75 days, the judges of the Brussels Court of First Instance ordered in summary proceedings. This information is confirmed by the lawyer of the young woman imprisoned in Syria since February 2018.
The appeal trial of the main defendants in the terrorist act in Imlil took place on Wednesday, October 30. The Criminal Chamber at the Court of Appeal of Salé, responsible for terrorism cases, sentenced the four main defendants to death, instead of three at first instance.
While Morocco and Algeria are more conciliatory on the subject, Tunisia, on the other hand, seems more radical. Many of these dual nationals from Maghreb countries have lost their French nationality due to terrorism-related affairs.