ISIS Cell Nabbed Ahead of Morocco, France Attacks
October 30, 2014Morocco said Thursday it has arrested two jihadists who were planning to attack banks and multinational companies in the North African country and in France.
An interior ministry statement said the Frenchman and Franco-Moroccan arrested on Monday had also been planning to join the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group.
It said they used the Internet to urge “individual terrorist acts in Morocco and France,” citing preliminary results from the investigation.
Both men had been motivated by the actions of Mohammed Merah, a French-Algerian national killed by French police in March 2012 after murdering seven people, including a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse.
The ministry statement said the arrested dual national had taken out several loans with French and Moroccan banks to finance their activities.
It said the pair were arrested in Kenitra in the north as they “were busy rallying the ranks of the terrorist organisation called Daesh,” the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State organization.
The detainees, identified only by their initials, were “involved in jihadist activism” by translating and disseminating press releases and video recordings of “IS (Islamic State) terrorism,” the MAP news agency said.
It added that an “extremist of Algerian origin” was also arrested on Monday in the northern city of Fez, and that he “planned to join his wife,” a Moroccan who had already joined ISIS.
AFP contributed to this report.
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