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The relentless fight against terrorism led by Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), since its inception in 2015, enabled the institution to dismantle 57 terrorist cells, including eight during the year 2018. These figures bring the total number of cells dismantled in Morocco, since 2002, to 183 structures that projected terrorist attempts in the […]
Morocco has urged the Europol for closer cooperation to monitor radicalized youth in Europe, head of Morocco’s counterterrorism agency (BCIJ) Abdelhak Khiame said. Morocco has established a strategy to protect its large diaspora in Europe from the threat of extremism, he said in an interview with Spanish news agency EFE, urging Europol to give Moroccan […]
Head of Morocco’s counter-terrorism agency (BCIJ) Abdelhak Khiame wondered why France did not flag up Radouane Lakdim before he moved into action, wreaking havoc on March 23 and taking lives in a supermarket in Trèbes and Carcassonne in southern France. The chief of Morocco’s FBI deplored the lack of communication by French intelligence authorities on […]
Terrorist groups are the biggest beneficiary of the unwillingness of Algerian authorities to engage in sincere cooperation with Morocco, said Abdelhak Khiame head of Morocco’s counter-terrorism agency (BCIJ). Speaking to weekly magazine “Jeune Afrique”, Khiame reiterated the call on Algeria to engage in collective efforts to combat terrorism, noting that the absence of regional cooperation […]
Morocco is looking carefully to the situation in the Sahel where terrorists are increasingly resorting to organized crime and trafficking to fund their activities, head of Morocco’s counterterrorism agency, BCIJ, Abdelhak Khiame said. Speaking to local press, Khiame rang the alarm bell regarding the fallout of the connivance between terrorists and organized crime groups on […]
Moroccan authorities arrested three individuals loyal to IS, including a Polisario member, who were plotting attacks in the Kingdom. Morocco’s counterterrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), arrested the three IS members, aged between 24 and 30, in Laayoune, Salé and Marrakech, the Interior ministry said in a statement. The arrested individuals are […]
Morocco’s FBI, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), has dismantled 49 terrorist cells, including 44 groups loyal to ISIS, and arrested 772 people on terrorism charges since its creation in 2015. Head of the BCIJ Abdelhak Khiame told French paper Le Monde that 97 Moroccan foreign fighters who returned from conflict zones were also […]
Morocco is putting forward its pre-emptive approach to avert the radicalization of Muslim youth in Europe mainly through ensuring an adequate training of Imams in accordance with the tolerant values of the Maliki school. In an interview with the Financial Times, Abdelhak Khiame, head of Morocco’s counter-terrorism agency, reiterated Morocco’s readiness to offer Imam training […]
Two and a half tons of cocaine with a street value of 2.7 billion US dollars were seized by the Moroccan security services, in their largest ever operation, showing the efficiency of the country’s drugs control strategy. This biggest drug bust was announced Wednesday by Morocco’s Central Bureau for Judicial Investigation at a press conference. […]
Abdelhak Khiame, Head of Morocco’s counterterrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), said that the Kingdom is working on a new strategy to track Moroccans who become radicalized in Europe as part of beefed-up counterterrorism measures. In an interview with the Associated Press, Khiame noted that the crackdown on radicalized individuals abroad comes […]