The National Court has acquitted a Moroccan, former imam of a mosque in San Sebastian, Spain, accused of jihadist indoctrination. It was not established that he had tried to recruit young people for jihad or collected funds for radical Islamist organizations.
An operation carried out in coordination with the Spanish National Intelligence Center (CNI) and with the close collaboration of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) of Morocco, the FBI, the Austrian Security and Intelligence Agency (DSN) and the German and Europol police authorities resulted in the arrest of two Moroccan terrorists returning from Syria.
Following the death of the Egyptian Ayman Al Zawahiri, head of Al-Qaeda, killed on the night of Saturday, July 30 to Sunday, July 31 in Afghanistan by an American strike, the Moroccan security services are on alert to ward off possible terrorist attacks.
The Moroccan Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi could be the successor to Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda killed in a US air strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, on the night of Saturday to Sunday, July 31.
American expert on terrorism-related issues Ido Levy, associate researcher at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, believes that Morocco’s efforts in the fight against extremism are more comprehensive than most programs implemented in the United States and the European Union (EU).
Sentenced to life imprisonment in France for his role in the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris, Salah Abdeslam has been transferred from France and incarcerated in the Ittre prison in Belgium, and will have to be tried for his involvement in the Brussels attacks.
In order to effectively fight terrorism , Morocco has decided to strengthen its national system by equipping itself with a national center for processing passenger and flight information.
The Council of Government decided on Thursday to strengthen its arsenal in the fight against terrorism and organized crime, by adopting a draft decree.
The trial of the Moroccan Abdedaim C., residing in Palafrugell (Girona), accused of an alleged offense of apology for jihadist terrorism on his Facebook profile, opened on Thursday at the National Court. The prosecution has requested a sentence of 3 years in prison and the payment of a fine of 4,800 euros against him.
Morocco is showing its willingness to provide its expertise and know-how in security matters to Qatar, the host country of the next World Cup. Qatari security experts are currently in Rabat, to receive training on combating the cyber activity of terrorist movements.
The Spanish justice system has sentenced three brothers, members of a terrorist organization based in Badalona (Barcelona), to eight years in prison for the death of a young Moroccan whom they indoctrinated and who died in a bombing in Syria while fighting alongside the Islamic State.
Abderrahmane Tahiri (known as Mohamed Achraf), Mohamed El Gharbi, Abdelah Abdesalam, Karim Abdesalam and Lahcen Zamzami are Moroccan jihadists who continued to indoctrinate during their prison stay in Spain. The justice wants to prevent one of them, Achraf, from being released from prison.