a suspect affiliated with the Islamic State group arrested for “apology” for the murder of a Frenchwoman

One of them had “apology” of the recent murder of a French woman in the south of the country. Moroccan anti-terrorist police announced on Wednesday (January 26th) that they had arrested two men suspected of being supporters of the jihadist group Islamic State. Arrested in the morning in the Marrakech region (west of the country), the suspects, aged 23, “had declared allegiance to the emir of the ‘Islamic State’ and started the distribution of extremist publications for the purpose of recruitment”, reported the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), in charge of the fight against terrorism. They were remanded in custody.

According to the BCIJ, one of the two men suspected of radicalization – and who “trained in the manufacture of explosives to commit terrorist acts” – “made the apology” of the murder of a 79-year-old French pensioner on January 15 in a market in Tiznit. She lived in a campsite near this small town. Suspected of the murder, a 31-year-old Moroccan was arrested the same day in Agadir, a hundred kilometers from the crime scene. He is also suspected of having stabbed a 65-year-old Belgian woman in Agadir without endangering her life. The suspect, who would suffer from mental disorders, was placed in a psychiatric hospital for expertise.