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Supporters suspected jihadists will be brought to justice on May 2 for the murder of two Scandinavian women in Morocco, said Tuesday to AFP a defense lawyer.
The murder of Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, aged 24, and Norway's Maren Ueland, aged 28, in December, has been described by the Moroccan authorities as a "terrorist act".
According to defense lawyer Saad Sahli, 24 defendants will be brought to justice in Sale, a town near the capital Rabat, for promoting terrorism, forming a terrorist cell or inflicting premeditated damage on terrorists. people.
A Hispano-Swiss man who, according to authorities, subscribes to "an extremist ideology" is accused of having aided the four main suspects in the murder, accusations that he denies.
The decapitated bodies of the two victims were found in the High Atlas Mountains, where they had been hiking in a popular tourist area.
A video broadcast on social media reportedly showed the killing of one of the women, while the prosecutor of Rabat said that the four main suspects had appeared in a separate sequence to pledge allegiance to the group of Islamic State.
The accused, however, had no contact with the jihadist group in the conflict zones, according to the head of the counter-terrorism of Morocco.
The North African country is highly dependent on tourism.
Foreign visitors had already been targeted in the bomb blast in Marrakech in 2011, which claimed 17 lives.
In 2003, an attack on the financial capital, Casablanca, left 33 dead.
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