On August 21, 2015, on a train connecting Amsterdam to Paris, the Moroccan Ayoub El Khazzani had planned a terrorist attack, when he was neutralized by an American soldier named Spencer Stone. Four years after his arrest, he tells the investigating judge that a simple smile from him had prevented a massacre.
The terrorist threat in Morocco tends to be less strong in the last two years, according to the second Annual Report of the Presidency of the Public Prosecutor’s Office on the implementation of the criminal policy. The document provides information on the number of defendants in terrorist acts. According to this Report, 337 people were referred in 2018, compared to 358 in 2017.
The Rassemblement des Musulmans de France (RMF) strongly condemned the shots that targeted the "Assounnah" Mosque in Brest. As a result, the imam, Rachid El Jay, and another worshiper were injured.
King Mohammed VI has just condemned, in a message to Tunisian President Béji Caïd Essebsi, the "ignoble terrorist attacks" that targeted the police forces in downtown Tunis.
Five people, aged 23 to 33, have just been arrested in Tetouan for their alleged links to the "Islamic State" Organization. This arrest was carried out by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ). The suspects were wearing military uniforms.
The 24 accused in the case of the murder of the two Scandinavian tourists were at the bar yesterday, Friday, June 14. They were questioned by the Judge for the fourth hearing, at the Salé Court.
A Moroccan and his Mexican wife could well see the sentences they were given in court in Spain annulled or reduced. They had been sentenced to six years and one year in prison respectively. But they have never stopped claiming they were innocent. They will be retried.
Following the arrest in Santa Coloma de Gramanet of a jihadist, who fled Morocco to Spain after the dismantling of a terrorist cell in Tangier, the latter has requested his extradition to Morocco.
A terrorist wanted in Morocco was arrested in Spain near Barcelona by the Spanish National Police. He is also wanted for drug trafficking.
An anti-terrorist operation carried out yesterday by Moroccan security services led to the arrest of three individuals accused of having pledged allegiance to the terrorist group Daesh.
Several French nationals are on the waiting list of those sentenced to death penalty around the world. In Morocco, two Frenchmen have been languishing on death row since 1994.
The perpetrators of the Imlil attack, whose trial began on May 16, intended to develop a network of sub-Saharan Africans and forge links with the West African terrorist group "Boko Haram".