the Women were found on Monday the dead at his tent near the community of Imlil which is the starting point for hikes up on the over 4,000-metre high mountain of Jbel Toubkal, Morocco’s highest peak.
since Then, four people have been arrested by the moroccan police for suspected involvement in the killings.
citing a statement from the Danish security police PET, can terrorist organisations IS to be implicated in the deed. The assumption is made then police are studying a video clip circulating on social media and the fact that at least one of those arrested is said to have links to a ”militant organization”, according to the moroccan brottsutredarna.
PET stresses, however, that the clip’s authenticity must be ensured before it is possible to say something definite about the reasons for the murders.
The 24-year-old dane Louise Vesterager Jespersen and her Norwegian fellow student Maren Ueland, 28, had just begun a month-long trip in Morocco and the Atlas mountains. The killings have caused great distress to those in Morocco and thousands of moroccans have expressed sorrow and participating in the comments on social media.
a domestic problem with våldstillvänd extremism compared with other countries in north Africa, largely because of the authoritarian they monitoring. But both the ICE and a regional branch of al-Qaeda is assumed to have a presence in Morocco and the moroccan police say they have dismantled a large number of domestic terrorceller the last few years.
About 2,000 moroccans traveled frivilligkrigare to Syria and Iraq when the ICE was largest in 2014-2015, several of the bombers in at the terrorist attacks in Paris in november 2015 and in Brussels in march 2016, was of moroccan origin.
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