The Criminal Chamber of the Marrakesh Court is examining a new development in the infamous “La creme” cafe shooting case in Marrakesh, in which a public assassination occurred using a firearm.
The suspect in question was reportedly arrested in Spain, where the Spanish authorities presented him to the Moroccan authorities, who initiated judicial proceedings against him.
The case dates back to November 2017, when the two defendants, on large motorcycles, opened fire at café ‘La Crème.’
12 defendants are currently being pursued the fatal drug-related shooting.
This new defendant’s first court appearance will coincide with the trial of the key Dutch detainee who had been arrested in August 2018.
Back on November 2, 2017, two masked suspects killed a 26-year-old man and injured two other individuals in plain sight at the cafe, before fleeing the scene on a motorcycle.
The two Dutchmen, who were swiftly arrested by Moroccan authorities, entered Morocco on tourist visas, claiming that they were visiting Marrakech.
According to reports, the suspects booked a room at a luxury hotel in the city but moved just a few days later to another hotel named 555.
The reports state that an unidentified suspect accompanied the assassins and took them on a tour of the city and introduced them to the owner of the cafe.
The two Dutch defendants faced several charges, among which was “intentional premeditated homicide,” “participation in an attempted homicide,” “criminal gang formation,” “damage to public property,” as well as “drug production and trafficking.”
The owner of the café and his cousin were found to have been accomplices to the murder and were sentenced, respectively, to 15 and 8 years in prison. The two were convicted of involvement in a drug trafficking operation at the time of the shooting.
Two additional suspects received 20-year prison sentences, and a third received a suspended sentence of 2 to 3 months.
DGSN reported that the defendants already had criminal records, and were directly linked to cases of international drug trafficking, abduction, taking hostages, armed robbery, and attempted murder.
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