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Extremists Held for Plotting Attacks in Morocco, France

Extremists Held for Plotting Attacks in Morocco, France
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Morocco said Thursday it has arrested two extremists who were planning to attack banks and multinational companies in the North African country and in France.

Extremists Held for Plotting Attacks in Morocco, FranceAn interior ministry statement said a Frenchman and a Franco-Moroccan arrested on Monday had also been planning to join the "ISIL" group.

It said they used the Internet to urge "individual terrorist acts in Morocco and France", citing preliminary results from the investigation.

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 organization called Daesh", the Arabic acronym for the "ISIL", it said.
The detainees, identified only by their initials, were "involved in extremist activism" by translating and disseminating press releases and video recordings of "ISIL" 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 the "ISIL".


Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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