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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."
Aleksander Skarlatos, one of three Americans who helped foil a terrorist attack on board a French high-speed Thalys train in 2015, says he does not consider himself a "hero". He has just testified in Paris at the court where a 31-year-old jihadist, Moroccan Ayoub El Khazzani, is being tried along with three co-defendants. El Khazzani was wrestled to the floor of the Brussels to Paris train by Skarlatos and three other men after he had opened fire. IMAGES
Rabat, Morocco, Dec 13 (EFE), (Camera: Mohamed Siali).- Some 800 Moroccan jihadists together with 671 women and children are in limbo in Syria and Turkey, where they are facing numerous difficulties they try to deal with different initiatives from civil society.SOUNDBITES OF:-ABDELHAK KHIAME'S BUREAU CENTRAL D'INVESTIGATIONS JUDICIARES TEAM:"We have no information that the women traveled (to Syria) to carry out jihad. It is a part of the Moroccan traditions that the woman accompanies her husband wherever he goes."-ABDELAZIZ BAKKALI, COORDINATOR OF THE ASSOCIATION OF MOROCCAN FAMILIES OF DETAINED AND ATTACKED IN SYRIA AND IRAK:"There are some jihadists who decoupled from their (violent) ideas, but we did not ask the State, after repatriating these young people, giving them passports and freeing them, but applying the law in accordance with their (criminal) responsibility."
Police have arrested suspected jihadists in Spain, Italy and Kosovo. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
A mortar attack on a United Nations peacekeeping base in northern Mali on Saturday killed three people and injured 20, the U.N. said.
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