The 25-year-old street vendor Abdessamad Ejjoud is identified as the suspected brain behind the dobbeltdrabet in Morocco at Danish Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Norwegian Maren Ueland.
It informs Efterforskningsleder Abdelhak Khiam to the French news agency AFP.
Ejjoud stood, according to the moroccan police at the head of a terrorcelle, who had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State.
According to the efterforskningslederen was the 25-year-old “the emir of the group”.
– Ejjoud formed a kind of cell, which discussed how they could carry out acts of terrorism in the kingdom, says Khiam to the AFP news agency.
The 25-year-old is allegedly one of the four persons appearing in a video recorded a week before the dobbeltdrabet.
In the video swears by the four men allegiance to Islamic State and calls on all moroccans to ‘do their duty and carry out Jihad (Holy war. red. ).
The 24-year-old Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and her friend Maren Ueland was Monday 17. december found dead in a popular area for hiking in Morocco. The two were on a month-long vacation. Private
The suspected killers were ‘under emirens influence have agreed to carry out a terrorist act, which was aimed at the security forces or the foreign tourists’, says efterforskningslederen.
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the Moroccan authorities undertook on Monday five new arrests in the case of dobbeltdrabet, so a total of 18 persons now in prison.
Three of the arrested men is believed to have been the ones who carried out the killings, while the rest either had knowledge of the plans on the killing of tourists and other plans of terrorism in the country.
in Addition to Abdessamad Ejjoud the 27-year-old joiner Younes Ouaziyad and the 33-year-old street vendor Rachid Afatti have been with to commit the killings.
the Extra Leaf visited in the last week the poor town of Douar El Caid outside of Marrakesh, where drabsmistænkte Abdessamad Ejjoud and Rachid Afatti have lived and grown up side by side since the beginning of the 00’s. Photo: Rasmus Flindt Pedersen
Efterforskningslederen also confirms the gruesome details about how the two young women were killed.
The two victims were stabbed, got the throat cut and was then beheaded, he said to AFP news agency.
Monday’s arrests were made in different cities in Morocco. It is not immediately clear how the five new arrested is believed to be related to the case.
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The 24-year-old Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and her friend Maren Ueland was Monday 17. december found dead in a popular area for hiking in Morocco. The two were on a month-long vacation.
In Morocco shall provide the local of the pursued. Video: AP