Convicted at first instance to heavy sentences, including three death sentences against the perpetrators of this crime described as "terrorist", the 24 criminals involved in the murder of two Scandinavian tourists were again before the Anti-Terrorism Tribunal of Salé on Wednesday, August 28, 2019. The appeal trial of these terrorists was postponed immediately after it opened.
The 24 convicted at first instance on July 18, 2019, in the so-called terrorist act trial of Imlil, are expected before the Court of Appeal on August 28.
The US military is gearing up for the 2020 edition of the "African Lion" exercise. To this end, meetings for the planning of this event were held from August 5 to 9, 2019, in Agadir.
Morocco is further translating its policy of securing its territory into action. To this end, this year it has made major purchases of weapons, military vehicles, security software and special training from the US government.
Salah Abdeslam, a French jihadist terrorist of Moroccan origin who grew up in Belgium, has been formally charged in the case of the March 22, 2016 attacks in Brussels, according to details provided by the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office. A radicalized petty criminal from the Brussels municipality of Molenbeek, Salah Abdeslam, incarcerated in France, is the only surviving member of the jihadist commandos behind the French attacks of November 13, 2015.
Australian authorities arrested the suspect who attacked a woman with a knife in the center of the city of Sydney on Tuesday, August 13, 2019.
In response to the "call for decapitation" launched by a teacher and, to the reaction of a deputy against Belgian girls dressed in shorts, on a construction site near Taroudant, Moroccans launch, "S(H)ORTONS-LES!", a call to counter the "spreaders of hatred".
Morocco has not remained indifferent to the terrorist act perpetrated near the National Cancer Institute in Cairo. The Kingdom strongly condemns it and expresses its proximity to the Egyptian capital.
A mother was sentenced to eight years in prison for having stayed for nine months in Syria with her three children, in 2017. This sentence, accompanied by a two-thirds security period, is higher than the prosecution’s requisitions, which had requested six years in prison against the Italian-Moroccan mother, Rajae Moujahid, tried for criminal conspiracy with a terrorist aim and abduction of children.
A primary school teacher was arrested on the evening of Monday, August 5, 2019, in Taroudant, by the National Brigade of the Judicial Police, in a case of advocacy of terrorist acts and incitement to commit them.
Over the years, Morocco has acquired the status of "Privileged Partner of Europe" thanks to its management of the flow of migrants and its fight against religious radicalism, to the detriment of Moroccans. In an op-ed in the newspaper Le Monde, Khadija Mohsen-Finan and Pierre Vermeren, two academics, note that respect for human rights in the Kingdom is of little importance in the eyes of the leaders of the old continent.
The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) of the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) arrested about twenty people in less than a week. These alleged terrorists were about to act.