Three suspected terrorists arrested in Morocco

Moroccan authorities arrest three individuals aged between 18 and 31 years in Nador, Driouch as part of Morocco’s ongoing fight against terrorist threats.

RABAT – Moroccan authorities arrested Tuesday three suspected terrorists in Northern Morocco as part of the country’s war on terror, according to the interior ministry.
Three individuals aged between 18 and 31 years were arrested in Nador and Driouch in the ongoing fight against terrorist threats, said a statement from the ministry.

Military uniforms and firearms were among the material seized during the operation, it added.

Last month, 15 people suspected of links to the grisly murder of two Scandinavian women in the Atlas Mountains were presented to an anti-terror judge.

The prosecution asked that the suspects be investigated for "setting up a gang to prepare and commit terrorist acts", "premeditated attacks on life" and "advocating for terrorism", the attorney general said.

Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and 28-year-old Norwegian Maren Ueland were found dead at an isolated hiking spot south of Marrakesh on December 17.

Morocco suffered a jihadist attack in 2011, when a bomb blast at a cafe in Marrakesh's famed Jamaa El Fna Square killed 17 people, mostly European tourists.

An attack in the North African state's financial capital Casablanca killed 33 people in 2003.