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Rabat (Morocco), March 19 (EFE) .- (Camera: Mohamed Siali) Morocco estimates that 1,137 citizens, including jihadists and their families, are still detained in camps in northern Syria, while the last organized return of eight of them dates back two years, the new anti-terrorist chief Habboub Cherkaoui said in an interview with Efe.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF CHERKAOUI HABBOUB, DIRECTOR OF BCIJ:"1,654 Moroccans travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight in jihadist groups, 1,060 of them belonged to the so-called Islamic State, 100 to the Harakat Sham al Islam movement. Of these people, 225 have a criminal record in Morocco for terrorism. 745 of them died in the Syrian-Iraqi area in combat or suicide bombings. Of the 270 who have returned to Morocco, we have investigated and referred 137 to Justice and the rest have been investigated by other security services. As for the 288 women who travelled to that area, 99 have returned to Morocco, and 82 of 291 minors, have also returned."
The head of the European Parliament vows that MEPs will be subject to new rules against "corruption" and "foreign interference" after a graft scandal linked to Qatar and Morocco. SOUNDBITE
Guatemala City, Jul 29 (EFE).- Thousands of people blocked roads in 20 of Guatemala's 22 provinces Thursday to demand the resignations of the president and attorney general in the wake of the firing of the chief anti-corruption prosecutor.(CAMERA: Esteban Biba)
Demonstrators and police clash in Senegal's capital Dakar ahead of a vote on a contested draft law that would define "seriously disturbing public order" as an act of terrorism. IMAGES
Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan), March 6 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Watan Yar).- The head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) of Afghanistan, Sayed Mahmood Agha, was killed in a suicide car bomb attack in Lashkar Gah on Saturday. Two other people have also died, including his bodyguard, and eight others have been injured.No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.FOOTAGE OF THE PLACE WHERE THE ATTACK OCCURRED
Berlin, Feb 25 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Clemens Bilan) Berlin police began on Thursday to make searches in several districts of the German capital as well as in the federal state of Brandenburg for the prohibition of a Salafist association due to its alleged link with the terrorist Islamic State.FOOTAGE OF THE RAID OF A SALAFIST ASSOCIATION DUE TO ITS ALLEGED LINK WITH THE TERRORIST ISLAMIC STATE, IN BERLIN