This 79-year-old national was killed on Saturday, on a market in Tiznit, in the southern country, with the white weapon. A 31-year-old suspect was arrested the same day in Agadir.
Le Monde with AFP
The national anti-terrorist office (UNAT) announced, Wednesday, January 19, in a statement, have opened an investigation for “assassination in relation to a terrorist company” after the murder, Saturday, a French tourist in Tiznit, in southern Morocco.
This 79-year-old French national was killed in a white weapon market. She resided in a campsite near this small town. A 31-year-old suspect was arrested the same day in Agadir, a few tens of kilometers from the place of crime. The police had also clarified that the suspect had previously been admitted to a psychiatric hospital from 25 September to 25 October 2021 “.
“The investigations have been entrusted to the Directorate-General for Internal Security, the Central Police Department of the Central Police Directorate and the Central Police Directorate,” said the UNAT.
The central office of judicial investigations (BCIJ) Moroccan “was in charge of the investigation in this case under the supervision of the prosecutor of the king near the Court of Appeal of Rabat because of suspicion on a mobile terrorist Crime, “said Monday night, to the France-Presse Agence a source close to the investigation.
” Attempt of Assassination “of a Belgian in Agadir
The suspect stopped Saturday is also suspected of committing “an assassination attempt” of a Belgian in Agadir, had revealed the same day the Moroccan police. The Belgian national had been injured in the white weapon and hospitalized in this tourist city. His days were not in danger.
Following the murder of the Septuagenarian Saturday, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has “recommended to be vigilant in all public places and during its trips to Morocco”, in a travelers council posted on The website of the French Embassy in Morocco.
The kingdom has been spared in recent years by violence related to jihadist groups. However, Morocco was the theater at the end of 2018 of an attack on two Scandinavian tourists, beheaded in the name of the Islamic State Organization (EI) in the High Atlas (South) mountains. At the end of a very follow-up trial, the accused were sentenced to the death penalty, not applied in Morocco since 1993.
Since 2002, the Moroccan police have dismantled more than 2,000 terrorist cells and arrested more than 3,500 people in “terrorism” affairs, according to the data communicated in 2021 by the BCI.