A Moroccan court ruled out a terrorist motive for the murder of a French tourist and the attempted murder of another Belgian in the south of the kingdom months ago, as it ordered the accused to be placed in a psychiatric hospital, local media reported on Wednesday. .
The news websites Hespress and Parlament reported that the Criminal Chamber of the Rabat Court “ruled not criminally responsible for the murder of a French tourist in the southern Moroccan city of Tiznit in January.”
Consequently, it ordered “to place the accused in the Ar-Razi Psychiatric Hospital” in the city of Sale, adjacent to the capital.
The prosecutor’s office assigned the investigation of the 31-year-old suspected of two crimes to the Anti-Terrorist Police on the basis of “alleged terrorist motives”.
But the court came to the conclusion about the exclusion of this suspicion.
Police had previously indicated at the arrest of the accused on 15 January that he had “previously been in the psychiatric ward of the Hassan I hospital in Tiznit for a period of one month.”
The first crime took place in a market in the town of Tiznit, near Agadir, where the defendants attacked a 79-year-old French tourist, killing her.
Later that day, he was arrested in Agadir after he attacked another Belgian tourist, causing her injuries that required hospitalization.
