This aggression occurred soon after the murder of a French in the south of Morocco on Saturday. Both cases were imputed by the Moroccan police at the same suspect.
Le Monde with AFP
An investigation for “assassination attempt in a terrorist context” was opened by the Belgian Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, Thursday, January 20, after the aggression at the white weapon of a Belgian national in Agadir, Morocco, Saturday .
On Wednesday, the French anti-terrorism justice had opened an investigation for “assassination in relation to a terrorist company” after the murder, Saturday, a French tourist, not far from Agadir, in the south of Morocco.
The two cases were imputed by the Moroccan police at the same suspect, a 31-year-old man, arrested the same day in Agadir.
Moroccan, French and Belgian justices work closely together
“Faced with these two facts, the Moroccan judicial authorities have decided to open a record for terrorism,” said Belgian federal prosecutor on Thursday, who says to work closely with the French and Moroccan justices.
Moroccan investigators already suspected “a mobile terrorist of the crime” concerning the murder of the French tourist, a 79-year-old woman killed with the white weapon on a Tiznit market.
Concerning the aggression of the Belgian national, also to the white weapon, the federal prosecutor’s public prosecutor’s public prosecution “Saturday at the end of the day in Agadir”.
This 65-year-old woman, who is from the region of Mons, Belgium, and resides in Morocco, “is severely injured,” but “his days are not in danger,” reports the floor, in a statement , citing “local doctors”. The investigations were entrusted to the anti-terrorism section of the Federal Police of Charleroi.
The kingdom has been spared in recent years by violence related to jihadist groups. However, Morocco was the theater, at the end of 2018, an attack on two Scandinavian tourists, beheaded on behalf of the Islamic State Organization (EI) in the High Atlas (South) mountains.
The suspect of the two attacks perpetrated Saturday to a few tens of distance kilometers had stayed for a month this fall in a psychiatric hospital, according to the Moroccan police. It will be the subject of a new psychiatric expertise.