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Moroccan intelligence services warned French authority of the Tuesday terror act against Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray Roman Catholic Church which claimed the life of priest Jacques Hamel. Morocco sent the photo of the second attacker, French Magazine Marianne reports. Marianne in a Thursday report claimed that French authorities were sent on July 22; four days before the attack, […]
French intelligence agencies are recruiting informants in Morocco and other Maghreb countries part of efforts to beef-up their anti-terrorism squads as terrorist threats continue to loom on the country in the aftermath of the Paris attacks of last November 13. After the Paris attacks, the French Ministry of Defense decided to be more vigilant and […]
A Belgian of Moroccan origin who managed last November to slip police net after the terror Paris attacks that claimed 130 lives, was captured lately in Morocco. According to Moroccan authorities, the suspect was arrested in the Atlantic coast port city of Mohammadia, near Casablanca. Investigators said the man had sojourned in Syria where he […]
Moroccan intelligence services helped secure a safe trip to Africa for Pope Francis, reports say. Moroccan intelligence services in conjunction with French intelligence service helped to secure a safe tour for Pope Francis to Africa. According to French media Le Mag quoting local media Pope Francis’s two-day stay to Central African Republic (CAR) torn by […]
King Philip of Belgium has requested Morocco’s assistance in the fight against terrorism and called for a closer cooperation between the two countries in matters of security and intelligence sharing. The request was expressed during a telephone conversation between King Philip and King Mohammed VI, the Moroccan Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday. […]
President François Hollande of France is to confer with King Mohammed VI of Morocco this Friday afternoon in Paris. The meeting was announced by the Elysée in a statement but no details about the purpose of the meeting or the topics to be discussed were revealed. Yet, everything suggests that the two leaders’ talks will […]