Moroccan police announced Monday (October 5th) the arrest of four suspects who are believed to be linked to the Islamic State group and who were preparing "
dangerous and imminent terrorist
" attacks
.
The four Moroccans, aged 23 to 26, were arrested in a popular district of Tangier (north) and placed in police custody, according to a press release from the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), which specializes in the fight against terrorism.
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The
self-proclaimed
"
emir
" of the cell had recorded a video of allegiance "
to the current so-called emir of the
Daesh
organization
", an Arab acrony of the IS group, according to the same source.
The suspects "
who could not reach the Daesh camps in the Sahel region south of the Sahara
" intended "to
destabilize the security of the kingdom (...) through terrorist methods inspired by the operations
" of the IS on the Syrian-Iraqi scene, according to the statement.
Bladed weapons, equipment and electronic media were seized, according to the same source.
"
This operation confirms the continuation of the terrorist threats which threaten the security of the kingdom and the stubbornness of the extremists imbued with the ideology
" takfiri "
, affiliated with the
Daesh
organization to carry out terrorist operations
", affirms the BCIJ.
In mid-September, the Moroccan authorities announced the dismantling of a cell affiliated with ISIS and the arrest of five men accused of actively preparing suicide attacks against "
personalities
" and "
headquarters of the security services
" of the kingdom. .
On this occasion, the boss of the BCIJ, Abdelhak Khiame, underlined the challenges of the fight against terrorism in the face of "
cells acting in hiding like dormant cells
", without direct link with ISIS, in a regional context disrupted by the instability in the Sahelo-Saharan region and the conflict in Libya.
"
Even if Daesh was defeated in the Levant, in the region of Syria and Iraq, its ideology is conveyed and does not need territory, it can develop where it finds sympathizers,
" he said. said in an interview with AFP.
