The director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), Cherkaoui Habboub, said on Monday in Salé that the breakdown of a terrorist cell associated with “Daesh” is this Morocco confronts external and internal terrorist threats.
During a press conference organized by the BCIJ, the head of the BCIJ emphasized that local elements were also involved in the expansionist agenda of terrorist organizations that are active in the prejudice of the kingdom in the Sahel region.
He returned to the threats of terrorist organizations against Morocco. November 18, 2023 and the Daesh press releases that expressly cite Morocco “.
The director of the BCIJ found that the participation of foreign elements in terrorist projects that are aimed at the kingdom, as in the case of this from a distance, is not new.
“The Moroccan experience is full of examples that illustrate the tireless act of terrorist groups to aim at Morocco,” he added. In this sense, Mr. Habboub spoke about the case of the Maghreb sent to Morocco, which was arrested in the Beni Drar region near Oujda on January 25, 2015, and remembered that the latter owned great It was usable in the production of explosives as well as pistols and communication devices.
In the same context, he indicated that the local elements that were unable to join the “Daesh” caps in Africa to aim at traditional goals such as the members of the terrorist cell, the murder of a Police officers are involved in the outskirts of Casablanca in March 2023 found that the investigation showed that they had acted after their Akolyths in the Somali branch of “Daesh” had not connected.
The director of the BCIJ emphasized that the attacks in Morocco were planned about the many cells that were dismantled between 2008 and 2010, the presence of Moroccan managers in active terrorist groups in the African Sahel Noureddine El Youubi, Ali Maychou or Mohamed Lemkhentar, all died , increases the level of threat from this region as soon as it Possibility examined to expand the activism of their groups in the kingdom.
According to Habboub, this reality is out for dangerous future scenarios due to the growing attractiveness of terrorist ideologies in local radical circles and all terrorist groups in the Sahel, especially those associated with “Daesh”.
Despite the efforts against combating networks, such as the cell on 29 and 30 and 30 January 2024, between Casablanca, Inezgane, Tanger and Beni Mellal, more than 130 Moroccan fighters succeeded in the branches of this group in the Sahel to connect in West Africa and in Africa Horn, he noted and explained that some are responsible for important committees, especially for those associated with external operations.
