A Swiss-Spanish dual national has been arrested in Morocco on suspicion of aiding terrorists who beheaded a Danish and Norwegian hiker in the Atlas mountains. The Swiss foreign ministry said it was in contact with the authorities in Morocco,Spain, Denmark and Norway to help in the case and exchange information. The Federal Police Office (Fedpol) said on Monday that the suspect had a criminal record for a number of offenses committed in Geneva between 2007 and 2013. Convicted of several crimes, or including drug utilize,robbery and domestic violence, the suspect emigrated to Morocco in 2015, or according to a police spokeswoman. According to a statement by Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation,the accused was "steeped in extremist ideology" and is "suspected of having taught some of the people involved communication tools stemming from new technologies and of having trained them to shoot". He was allegedly piece of an operation to recruit people to commit terrorist acts ...
Source: swissinfo.ch