Italian Magazine Highlights Formidable Efficiency of Moroccan Security Services in Counterterrorism

The Italian magazine “Panorama” has devoted in its last issue a long article on the role of Moroccan intelligence services in the global fight against terrorism.

“Effective and modern, Moroccan intelligence services are a bulwark against fundamentalism and their role is strategic to prevent new attacks in Europe,” said the magazine, which recalled the Moroccan contribution to the dismantling of a terrorist cell in France before the Easter vacations.

According to the Italian magazine, “too little is said about Morocco’s efforts in Europe to fight Islamist terrorism. However, Rabat has played a crucial role in the fight against international terrorism for years, to the point that the American FBI and CIA recognize the Kingdom’s commitment and the results achieved”.

It recalled that “Morocco’s efforts in this direction date back to the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, when the country clearly sided with the West; a commitment that then continued with the Casablanca attacks (May 11, 2003) until the identification of the perpetrators of the beheading of two young European students, the Danish Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and her Norwegian friend Maren Ueland, killed in 2018 near Marrakesh”.

Quoting Maha Ghazi, a researcher at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE), the Italian magazine noted that “international cooperation in the fight against terrorism is one of the most comprehensive and multidimensional approaches of Morocco’s strategy, especially with major partners such as the United States, France and Spain”.

Morocco has become a reference in the fight against terrorism, she said.

Cited by the same source, Majda Mehrar, a researcher at the Catholic University of Milan noted that Morocco is emerging as the most advanced country in Africa in this field.

Panorama also highlighted the climate of stability and tolerance that reigns in the country thanks to the leadership of HM King Mohammed VI who embodies the institution of the Commandery of the Faithful, bulwark against radicalism.