{"id":28001,"date":"2019-01-04T07:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T07:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28001"},"modified":"2019-01-04T07:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T07:22:39","slug":"7-new-suspects-brought-before-morocco-judge-in-slain-hikers-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28001","title":{"rendered":"7 new suspects brought before Morocco judge in slain hikers case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1430001\/middle-east\" readability=\"54\">\n<p>\nRABAT: A Morocco prosecutor on Thursday brought seven new suspects including a Spanish-Swiss man before a Rabat anti-terror judge in connection with the murder of two Scandinavian women in the Atlas Mountains.<br \/>The prosecution asked that the suspects be investigated for \u201cforming a gang to prepare and carry out terrorist acts, premeditated assistance to perpetrators of terrorist acts and training people to join a terrorist organization,\u201d Rabat\u2019s attorney general said.<br \/>The prosecutor called on the judge to place the suspects in pre-trial detention.<br \/>Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and 28-year-old Norwegian Maren Ueland were found dead at an isolated hiking spot south of Marrakesh on December 17.<br \/>The two women were beheaded, authorities have said.<br \/>Fifteen people, including the four main suspects, were brought before the judge on Sunday over their alleged links to the double homicide, labelled a \u201cterrorist\u201d act by Rabat.<br \/>The Spanish-Swiss man in Thursday\u2019s group had been living in Morocco and was detained in Marrakesh over alleged links to some of the suspects.<br \/>He subscribed to \u201cextremist ideology,\u201d according to Morocco\u2019s central office for judicial investigations.<br \/>The four main suspects were also arrested in Marrakesh and belonged to a cell inspired by Daesh ideology, Morocco\u2019s counter-terror chief Abdelhak Khiam told AFP.<br \/>None of the four had contact with Daesh members in Syria or Iraq, he said.<br \/>The head of the suspected cell is 25-year-old street vendor Abdessamad Ejjoud, according to investigators.<br \/>He was identified in a video filmed a week before the double-murder, in which the four main suspects pledged allegiance to Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, according to authorities.<br \/>The killings have shaken Norway, Denmark and Morocco. Another video circulated on social networks allegedly showed the murder of one of the tourists.<br \/>Morocco, which relies heavily on tourism income, suffered an extremist attack in 2011, when a bomb blast at a cafe in Marrakesh\u2019s famed Jamaa El Fna Square killed 17 people, mostly European tourists.<br \/>An attack in the North African state\u2019s financial capital Casablanca killed 33 people in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RABAT: A Morocco prosecutor on Thursday brought seven new suspects including a Spanish-Swiss man before a Rabat anti-terror judge in connection with the murder of two Scandinavian women in the Atlas Mountains.The prosecution asked that the suspects be investigated for \u201cforming a gang to prepare and carry out terrorist acts, premeditated assistance to perpetrators of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}