Salé - The examining magistrate in charge of terrorism affairs at the Salé appeal court ordered, on Wednesday, to remand in custody, in Salé's local prison, seven members of a network linked to the terrorist organization of the Islamic State, following their preliminary interrogation, a legal source said on Thursday.
The culprits, from the city of Fez, were brought on Wednesday before the public prosecutor at the Rabat appeal court. They are sued for forming a criminal gang to prepare and commit terrorist attacks within the framework of a collective plot to seriously undermine public order by intimidation, violence and terror, and belonging to a banned religious group.
The Moroccan authorities have arrested two people linked to the radical Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as they prepared to leave the country to join ISIS camps, the Interior Ministry had announced.
The two men, who have connections with foreign extremists, were planning to get military training in ISIS camps before returning to carry out attacks in Morocco, in accordance with ISIS plans to expand the scope of its operations outside of Syria and Iraq.