Among them, 21 were placed in police custody under the supervision of the prosecution, said the same sources.
These arrests resulted from simultaneous operations in several cities of the country, led by agents of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) and special anti-terrorist forces of the General Directorate of National Territory Surveillance (DGST).
The suspects are believed to have "sworn allegiance" to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS) and Al Qaeda jihadist groups.
According to these security sources, searches led to "seizure of bladed weapons", and "publications advocating terrorism and documents relating to methods of manufacturing explosives".
If Morocco has been spared in recent years by attacks linked to jihadist groups, its security services regularly report anti-jihadist crackdowns and foiled attack plans.