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Africa North
Trio sentenced to death for beheading backpackers in ISIS-inspired slayings
2019-07-19
Just DO IT
[NY Post] Three jihadists were sentenced to death in Morocco for butchering two female Scandinavian backpackers in an ISIS-inspired execution.

Ringleader Abdessamad Ejjoud,
...a street vendor and ‘underground imam’ with jihadi ambitions who lived near Marrakech, led the hunt for killable foreign tourists around the village of Imlil in the Atlas Mountains. He and his friends are the kind of self-actualized jihadis both Al Qaeda and ISIS have been seeking for years. The wonder, honestly, is that this kind of thing hasn’t been happening weekly...
Younes Ouaziyad and Rachid Afatti were convicted of terror charges Thursday in the trial over the grisly slaughterings back in December.
...Mr. Ouaziyad has been identified as a carpenter, which would make Mr. Afatti either the plumber or the other street vendor, while Abderrahim Khayali, the fourth plotter who walked away before the kill, will be whatever is left. The miscreants were quickly scooped up following the murders because one of the group left his ID behind, and the clever lads were recorded on CCTV...
Maren Ueland,
...all the articles on the subject in our archives mention the murdered girls, so this link is an easy way to find them...
28, and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, were fatally wounded Dec. 17 in a tent on a Christmas camping trip near Mount Toubkal, one of Morocco's highest peaks.

Prosecutors allege that Ejjoud, 25, and Ouaziyad, 27, beheaded the hikers while Afatti, 33, recorded the slayings on his phone. All three men pledged allegiance to ISIS in a video before the murders.

The trio was sentenced along with 20 other accomplices who received jail terms ranging from five to 30 years.
At least three of the twenty are reportedly known jihadi wolves. Kevin P., not mentioned here by name, but likely one of the 20 other convicted accomplices, is a Swiss-Spaniard convert to Islam accused of teaching some of the suspects social media skills and archery, and of recruiting Moroccans and sub-Saharan Africans for jihad.
The Local - Denmark adds:
The defence team argued there were "mitigating circumstances on account of their precarious social conditions and psychological disequilibrium".
Most poor people — or rich people, for that matter — do not go looking for innocents to murder. So their precarious social condition is no excuse. If, on the other hand, psychological disequilibrium is meant to say they are not sane, then clearly they need to be locked up until they can be brought to sanity, as they are a danger to all in the vicinity.
Coming from modest backgrounds, with a "very low" level of education, the defendants lived for the most part in low-income areas of Marrakesh.

Jespersen's lawyers have accused authorities of having failed to monitor the activities of some of the suspects before the murders.
Posted by:Frank G

#6  Somehow CS&N seem a bit naive and dated right about now.

It was a kinder, gentler time. Plus we were all stoned.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-07-19 13:18  

#5  Blackbeard, a technical q: assuming you care about either your clothes or your alibi, how does the head-sawing murderer prevent all that blood spurting all over him?
Posted by: Lex   2019-07-19 11:45  

#4  
Creative writing again, Hemingway?
Posted by: Blackbeard Ulereling1568   2019-07-19 08:20  

#3  Take the train from Casablanca going south
Blowing smoke rings from the corners of my my, my, my, my mouth
Colored cottons hang in air
Charming cobras in the square
Striped Djellebas we can wear at home
Don't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
Don't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express
They're taking me to Marrakesh

Somehow CS&N seem a bit naive and dated right about now.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-07-19 07:32  

#2  Morocco has been trying to establish a tourism economy with some success.

Keeping tourists from being killed would help this effort.
Posted by: lord garth   2019-07-19 05:19  

#1  Justice seems swift and permanent in Morocco. I'm kind of envious.
Posted by: Secret Master   2019-07-19 00:48  

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