Elements of the State Department of Judicial Police in Casablanca, in close coordination with the National Division of Judicial Police and the General Directorate for the Surveillance of the National Territory, succeeded in arresting, in the early hours of Wednesday, March 15, three extremists loyal to the “Daesh terrorist organization”, suspected of involvement in the commission of premeditated murder in the framework of a terrorist project, the victim of which was a policeman on duty.

Security operations initiated by regional intervention teams, under the supervision of judicial police officers in charge of the search, led to the arrest of the two main suspects in simultaneous operations both in the city of Casablanca and in the “Sidi Harazem” area on the outskirts of Fez, before the third suspect was arrested in a subsequent operation in Casablanca.

Preliminary information from the investigation indicates that the suspects had recently declared their “allegiance” to the alleged emir of the terrorist organization “Daesh”, and decided to engage in a domestic terrorist project to seriously undermine public order, where they decided to target a security guard to physically eliminate him and seize his functional weapon, to commit a crime of robbery on a bank branch, the location of which was determined in advance and agreed on the method of breaking, to collect the financial proceeds of this criminal act.

The research and investigations carried out up to this stage of the search confirmed that the first and second suspects were responsible for the physical execution of the murder and the representation of the body of the victim police officer, after having staked out his place of work in a road service during his night shift, and subjected him to physical aggression with a knife, before stealing his car and his official weapon and setting fire to his body in an area of the village.

The leads also indicated that the two suspects coordinated with the third suspect, who had the same extremist agenda, to change the contours of the crime and erase the evidence by deliberately setting fire to the victim’s police car.

The technical investigations and inspection procedures carried out, in this case, led to the seizure of the bladed weapons used to commit the crime and the recovery of the handcuffs and the functional weapon of the deceased police officer, which was hidden in a safe place in the city of Casablanca, for use in carrying out their terrorist plans.

The suspects were kept in theoretical custody as part of the judicial investigation entrusted by the Public Prosecutor’s Office supervising the investigation to the Central Judicial Investigation Bureau of the General Directorate for National Territorial Control, to monitor any possible links to this terrorist act with international organizations.

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Five extremists affiliated with the terrorist organization “Istalmic State,” aged 21 to 44, were arrested Wednesday morning by the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), with the help of special forces from the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), for their alleged involvement in planning for the execution of destructive projects within the framework of so-called individual terrorist operations.

According to a statement released by the BCIJ, the suspects were arrested in separate and simultaneous security operations in Kenitra, Larache, Souk Sebt Ouled Nemma, Taroudant, and the rural commune of Souihla (Marrakech prefecture), as part of the DGST services’ ongoing efforts to neutralize and abort terrorist plans and projects that threaten the country’s and citizens’ security.

Electronic materials and media were seized during searches at the homes of those arrested, according to the same source, and will be subjected to technical and digital expertise to determine their content. Manuscripts praising the terrorist organization Islamic State were also seized, including a manuscript listing products and elements used in the manufacture of explosive devices, as well as bladed weapons of various sizes.

According to early investigations, the five extremists linked with the terrorist organization “Islamic State” are involved in the instigation and planning of terrorist projects, as well as the gathering of extremist content on explosive device manufacturing.

They also commended the Islamic State terrorist organization’s physical liquidation and mutilation of bodies, as well as fanatical takfirist notions of society and representatives of public power, and approving the spoils of terrorist operations.

According to the statement, the suspects had specified terrorist targets that were unique to each of them, but that all overlapped in terms of individual terrorism methods and techniques, which were summarized in the targeting of security and military sites and government installations.

They also planned physical liquidations against members of the public and government departments, as well as commercial and banking institutions, in order to get the resources and funding needed for terrorist activities.

The suspects were detained pending the conclusion of a judicial investigation by the BCIJ, which was conducted under the supervision of the prosecutor’s office in charge of terrorism cases, with the goal of highlighting the terrorist projects prepared by each of them and determining any possible ramifications with other terrorist cells and organizations active in Morocco and abroad.

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The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), which is part of the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), referred an extremist supporter of the so-called “Islamic State” organization who was active in the Sala Al Jadida region on Tuesday to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in charge of terrorism and extremism cases.
According to a BCIJ statement, technical expertises and digital analyses performed on the electronic and computer equipment seized in the context of this case revealed that the 24-year-old suspect had downloaded several documents, books, and digital content from extremist sites, recounting the stages of manufacturing explosives and explosive devices and determining the nature of chemicals and components used in their manufacture.
Similarly, these investigations revealed that the suspect downloaded and saved manuscripts and photos that explained, in a practical way, the mode of manufacture and activation of explosives, whether in the context of suicide operations or remote actuation, as well as the possession and archiving of other extremist content on the stages of manufacture of toxic substances and the components used in their preparation, as well as a detailed inventory on the methods and techniques.
According to the BCIJ, the suspect’s technical expertise and investigations revealed that he had progressed to an advanced stage in his terrorist project, indicating that he was on his way to carrying out his destructive plan after conducting several experiments on the preparation and assembly of explosive devices for use in terrorist operations.
The BCIJ arrested this extremist element, which has pledged allegiance to the terrorist organization “Daesh,” on December 16 as part of a coordination and cooperation operation involving the DGST and the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) of Morocco, as well as intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the United States.
This security operation demonstrates the relevance and efficiency of the DGST’s close bilateral collaboration with American security and intelligence services in the battle against violent extremism and terrorist threats on a global scale, according to the same source.

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