According to Ok Dario, a Spanish online newspaper, the National Intelligence Center has collaborated in the past with Abdelbaki Es Satty. Reportedly, the Rippol Imam who planned for the Catalonia attacks was supposed to keep an eye on jihadists in Spain. Details.
The internet is a means of communication for terrorists, which help them recruit, and arrange attacks using coded messages that the intelligence services cannot decode. For that reason, Morocco and three countries from the European Union, namely Spain, France and Belgium met in Mechelen to discuss this problem.
16 years after the deadly 9/11 attacks, Muslims and Arabs are still looked at in a different way. According to the Council of American Islamic relations, Islamophobia and hate crimes have been on the rise since then. On the 11th of September 2017, two Moroccan nationals who lived in New York during the attacks spoke to Yabiladi about their experiences.
The two Spanish enclaves located in the farthest region of the Kingdom are being at the center of the fight against terrorism for Spain, according to The Conversation. The latter suggests that the flow of illegal migrants through Morocco is a Major factor leading to the recent attacks that targeted Catalonia.
Several Moroccan nationals have been involved in a number of terror attacks that targeted some European countries during the last few months. According to an article issued by the Sun, a tabloid newspaper published in the UK and Ireland, Morocco, mostly considered as heaven of stability, might be «a breeding ground for terrorists».