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Morocco arrests six IS-linked jihadist suspects
RABAT, April 23, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Moroccan authorities said Tuesday they
have arrested six suspected jihadists with links to the Islamic State group.
The suspects, aged between 22 and 28, were “supporters” of IS and
suspected of planning “terrorist acts”, the central bureau of investigations
said in a statement.
They were arrested in the town of Sale near Rabat in a raid led by the
bureau’s anti-terrorism squad, during which electronic devices, bladed
weapons and “extremist” manuscripts were found, it added.
Suspected jihadist sympathisers are to go on trial in Sale next week for
the murder of two Scandinavian women in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains last
December.
Morocco has been spared largescale jihadist attacks since a 2011 bombing
in Marrakesh’s famed Jamaa El Fna Square that killed 17 people, mainly
European tourists. But each year authorities announce the dismantling of
dozens of IS cells.
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