An associate researcher at the Thomas More Institute believes that in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel, Morocco remains a major asset for France. Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier addressed this in his analysis entitled "The geopolitical stakes of the Sahel and the fight against fanaticism: an overall vision".
While Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet advocates the repatriation and trial of French jihadists in France, the position of her entourage on the subject remains unchanged.
While incarcerated in Portugal, Abdessalam Tazi was found dead on Thursday morning in his individual cell at the Monsanto prison (Lisbon). The Moroccan had been convicted of recruiting jihadists and financing terrorist activities for the Islamic State (IS).
Abdelhadi Al Houij, Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs, asked King Mohammed VI to help his country in the crisis that has shaken it since the death of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Following a large-scale police operation in several cities, the Turkish authorities arrested 64 people, including a Moroccan national, suspected of belonging to the Islamic State Daesh.
After joining the capital of the Jockey-Club bar in Sevran in 2018, the comedian Yassine Belattar is no longer a shareholder. He would have "deflated the false reputation of the place, which was said to be forbidden to women, even to non-Muslims".
Fatima B., one of the two sisters convicted by a Belgian court, while they were in Syria, has decided not to appeal her conviction anymore. She accepts to serve five years in prison for participation in the activities of the terrorist group Islamic State , while her sister, Rahma B., convicted on the same charges, maintains her appeal which will be examined in March by the Antwerp Criminal Court.
280 Moroccan women and 391 children could be repatriated from Turkey. Turkish and Moroccan authorities are coordinating the imminent return of jihadist families.
A jihadist, holding Moroccan nationality , was repatriated on Monday, December 16 to his country of origin, according to a statement from the Turkish Ministry of the Interior.
A 41-year-old extremist who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Daesh was arrested in Meknes by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ).
While planning a suicide attack, an ISIS supporter was arrested in Meknes last Saturday. This is the result of a joint operation carried out by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) and the judicial police services of Meknes.
Turkey is pursuing its policy of expelling foreign jihadists from its soil to their countries of origin. In total, 11 jihadists were sent back, on Monday, December 9, 2019, to France.