Dobbeltdrabet on Louisa Vesterager Jespersen on 24 years old and 28-year-old Maren Ueland from Norway are now linked to terrorism.
According to the prosecutor’s office in Morocco, there was talk about terror, then a Danish and a Norwegian woman was killed the other day.
This writes the news agency AP.
in Addition informs a source to AFP that the extremist islamists are suspected to have killed the two young scandinavians.
– Radical islam is not excluded because of the profile of the suspects, who are arrested, and the three missing men, says the unnamed source.
Also the Norwegian media VG writes that the killings linked to terror, and that probably comes an official announcement about it on Wednesday evening.
The two young women were backpackers and were found dead in a popular hiking area not far from the village of Imlil. They had, according to the ministry of interior in Morocco, signs of violence on the neck caused by a sharp tool.
Sunday, 16. december had the two women put up a tent by a path in the Atlas mountains. The path leading up to the Toubkal, north africa’s greatest mountain.
the Women are, however, not the only one in the area, tells VG, who has been informed that the three men have camperet close.
At three o’clock on the night of Monday, eye witnesses watched the three men leave the area. A surveillance camera also caught the three men in the village of Imlil.
a Few hours later – Monday morning – the two women found killed. They had been subjected to gross and brutal violence with a sharp object.
Now requires the parents of the killed answers. Maren Uelands mother says to Stavanger Aftenblad:
– They were mobile, money and good equipment. But it makes no sense. We must wait and see what the police finds out, she says.
Local media have since reported that it was other tourists who ended up finding the women.
on Tuesday morning at five o’clock was the first shot, VG can tell. He was supposed to be a moroccan man, and the police have reportedly found his ID near the scene of the crime, just like he should look like one of the three men from the overvågningsbillederne.
According to VG, he has during the interrogations pointed to three other men.
Since the two men further been arrested. They are from the port city of Safi, and they are apprehended in Marrakech.
