Published on :
French justice announced on Wednesday the opening of an investigation for “assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” after the murder on Saturday of a French tourist in southern Morocco. The suspect, a 31-year-old man also accused Thursday of “attempted murder” on a Belgian national, was arrested the same day.
French justice announced, Wednesday January 20, the opening of an investigation for “assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” after the murder, Saturday January 15, of a French tourist in the south of Morocco. The suspect was arrested the same day in Agadir.
This 79-year-old French national was killed in a Tiznit market with a knife. She lived in a campsite near this small town.
Thursday, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office announced for its part that it had opened an investigation for “attempted assassination in a terrorist context” after the attack on a Belgian national on Saturday in Agadir. Wounded with a knife, she was hospitalized in this tourist town and her life is not in danger.
Both cases were attributed by the Moroccan police to the same suspect, a 31-year-old man arrested the same day in Agadir.
A terrorist motive?
In Morocco, a source close to the investigation told AFP on Wednesday that he had been taken to a psychiatric hospital for medical expertise. Monday evening, this source, who requested anonymity, indicated that the Moroccan prosecutor’s office had entrusted the investigation to the anti-terrorist police, suspecting “a terrorist motive for the crime”.
“The investigating judge in charge of the case decided on Wednesday evening to place the suspect in the Ar-Razi psychiatric hospital in Salé after consultation with the prosecution. He will be subjected to medical expertise there and the investigation is continuing,” said specified the Moroccan source. According to Moroccan police, the suspect had stayed in a psychiatric hospital “from September 25 to October 25, 2021”.
Following the murder of the septuagenarian on Saturday, the French government “recommended to be vigilant in all public places and when traveling in Morocco”, in a travel advice posted on the website of the French Embassy in Morocco.
The kingdom has been spared in recent years from violence linked to jihadist groups. However, Morocco was the scene at the end of 2018 of an attack against two Scandinavian tourists, beheaded in the name of the Islamic State (IS) organization in the High Atlas mountains (south). After a well-attended trial, the defendants were sentenced to the death penalty, not applied in Morocco since 1993.
Since 2002, Moroccan police have dismantled more than 2,000 terrorist cells and arrested more than 3,500 people in cases related to “terrorism”, according to data released in 2021 by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations.
With AFP
Download Tactical Chaos – Tactical Chaos Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Enter the Haggis – The Archer’s Parade Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Paul Hardcastle – Hardcastle Works Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Ignacio Arfeli & Martin Kinrus – Moonlight – EP Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Persekutor – Permanent Winter Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Luna Zuazu – Mi Planeta Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Verschiedene Interpreten – Ambiente del Mare, Vol. 1 (Finest Ambient and Chill out Tracks to Relax) Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Stoney Hoop – Four Corners – EP Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Buju Banton – Blessed More Blessed (The Remixes) – EP Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Joan Chamorro & Sant Andreu Jazz Band – Jazzing 10 Vol. 2 Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Zauntee – Twenty Four Seven – EP Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Various Artists – Essential Neo Soul Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Thing – Dubthing Collected, Vol. 3 Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Space Army – Distance – EP Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download James Lee Baker – 100 Summers Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download TESSÆ – Été – EP Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Tennessee Jet – The Country Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Satanic Togas – X-Ray Vision Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Big Havi – Personal Problems 2 Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Thomas Madsen & I Think You’re Awesome – Late Bloomer Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Tension & Zeppho – Solitude – EP Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Angelo Di Leonforte Trio – This Too Will Pass Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download 3STRANGE & Alan Fitzpatrick – The New World – EP Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Powderfinger – Odyssey Number Five: 20th Anniversary Edition Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04
Download Dkstr – Pako Caravan Soundtrack Album Mp3 Zip 2020-09-04