First Published 2007-04-05


Security stepped up in Morocco

 
31 charged over Casablanca suicide bombing

 
Suspects charged with belonging to illegal group with intention of committing terrorist acts in Morocco.

 
RABAT - Thirty-one people have now been charged over a suicide bombing in Casablanca last month that killed one person and injured four others, a judicial official said on Wednesday.

The final suspect, a 25-year-old man, was charged on Wednesday after being arrested on March 23 after threatening police with a knife.

The suspects, arrested in several towns and cities in the northwest African country, have been charged with belonging to an illegal group with the intention of committing terrorist acts.

The bomber, Abdelfettah Raydi, died in the March 11 attack on the cybercafe.

His suspected accomplice, Youssef Khoudri, who was injured in the blast, was among those charged in late March.

Prosecutors allege that the bomber's intended target was not the cybercafe but the port of Casablanca, an army base and several police stations in the city.
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