RABA – Police in Morocco arrested three people yesterd ay for a cafe bombing in the tourist city of Marrakesh on April 28th that killed 16 people, and said the chief suspect was “loyal” to al Qaeda.
The three suspects were all Moroccans, the official news agency reported. Most of the bomb victims were foreign holidaymakers including eight French people.
The ministry said the chief suspect was “well-versed in jihadi ideology and shows loyalty to al Qaeda”. It said the suspect had previously tried to fight alongside Islamist militants in Russia’s turbulent Chechnya republic and in Iraq. It was the first such attack in Morocco since 2003, when suicide bombings in Casablanca, killed more than 45 people.