Based on precise intelligence provided by the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), elements of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) arrested on Thursday four individuals who had pledged allegiance to ISIS in several Moroccan cities and were planning to carry out lone-wolf terrorist operations.
Accused of being an accomplice to the jihadist Larossi Abballa in the murder of a couple of police officers in Magnanville on June 13, 2016, Mohamed Lamine Aberouz was sentenced Wednesday to life imprisonment by the special assize court in Paris.
The Director of the Civil Guard, Leonardo Marcos, reaffirmed on Wednesday from Ceuta the willingness of the armed institute to "strengthen" the "magnificent cooperation" with the Moroccan security forces in the field of prevention and fight against terrorism, organized crime and drug and human trafficking.
Sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum sentence of 22 years for his participation in the November 2015 Paris attacks, Mohamed Abrini and other Moroccans involved in the March 22, 2016 attacks lose their Belgian nationality.
The judicial police of the 3rd district of Paris are conducting an investigation after the reporting, last weekend, of several false bomb threats targeting the Great Mosque of the city. The security of the site has been reinforced.
Young people of Moroccan origin in Ripoll (Catalonia) are victims of racism. They continue to suffer the social consequences of the terrorist acts perpetrated on August 17, 2017 by radicalized young people from the municipality, which left 16 dead and 140 injured.
Three Moroccan imams, considered a threat to national security, were expelled from Spain and about thirty, listed as extremists, were banned from entering prisons in 2022, according to a report on terrorism in Spain.
Morocco, a key player and major ally of the United States and Spain in the current fight against terrorism and extremism, is in the sights of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
The Civil Guard arrested Salim HS, of Moroccan origin, and Hugo CM, a Spaniard, for belonging to a terrorist organization, jihadist indoctrination and recruitment of young people and minors. The two accused would be members of the "largest jihadist organization" in Spain.
A German court had convicted a Moroccan for his involvement in the September 11 attacks, before deporting him to Morocco in 2018. Today, the man is pleading for his removal from the list of terrorists.
Around fifty individuals were arrested on Wednesday in Morocco during a major operation targeting suspected members of jihadist groups.
Following information provided by the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) proceeded, last Wednesday, to the arrest of an individual suspected of belonging to the "Daesh" organization, active between Morocco and Spain.