Yesterday, Thursday, May 30, at the resumption of his trial in Salé, Abdessamad Ejjoud, 25, and the alleged leader of a jihadist cell, confessed. He notably admitted to beheading one of the two Scandinavian tourists murdered in the night of December 15 to 16 in the High Atlas region.
On May 2, the trial of the 24 terrorists prosecuted for the murder of the two Scandinavian tourists whose bodies were found near Mount Toubkal began. Among other things, it emerged that they had planned to kill personalities using rodenticides.
Two Swiss are being prosecuted directly or indirectly in the Imlil tragedy, which led to the murder of two young Scandinavian tourists. One of them has just been sentenced to 10 years in prison, in a case tried separately.