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Ministry subsequently claimed that
Salafia Jihadia had 699 activists in the country. Some of the suicide bombers who failed to detonate their vests were captured by police. Three of the failed bombers and another person, all members of Salafia Jihadia, were sentenced to death in August 2003. In September, a court in
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had won the elections and become the ruling party in the country following the Arab Spring, and after pressure from human rights organisations. After the release of several radical
Salafis, some ideological leaders of the group toned down their criticism of the king; in 2014 this began to cause a
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Westerners and Jews in Casablanca, which killed 33 people (plus all twelve suicide bombers) and injured over 100. In the aftermath of the bombings, up to more than 2,000 individuals were prosecuted in Morocco in a wide-scale crackdown on Islamists and criminals. The Moroccan Justice
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Salafia
Jihadia is said to function as a network of several loosely affiliated Salafist groups and cells, including groups such as al Hijra Wattakfir, Attakfir Bidum Hijra, Assirat al Mustaqim, Ansar al Islam and Moroccan Afghans. The spiritual leader and founder of the group is
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near
Casablanca was unravelled by security forces in March 2005. In December 2006, Spanish authorities announced that a cell of eleven people, ten Spanish citizens and one Moroccan associated with Salafia Jihadia had been dismantled. According to Spanish anti-terrorism judge
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September 2003 sentenced a Frenchman, Robert Richard Antoine Pierre (aka Abu Abderrahmane) and three other members of Salafia Jihadia to life, while 22 others were given sentences ranging from 10 to 30 years imprisonment. Accused of plotting attacks in
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November 2007, a trial was opened against 51 people arrested across several cities suspected of involvement with the Casablanca bombings, who were mainly associated with Salafia Jihadia. Others convicted as part of the attacks were members of GICM.
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group, Salafia
Jihadia was eventually responsible for around 300 murders in Morocco as punishment for "non-Islamic behaviour." The group has been associated with the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM). It also had links to the former Algerian
233:, in which twelve suicide bombers killed 33 people and injured over 100. Salafia Jihadia has variously been described as a movement or loose network of groups, or as a generic term applied by Moroccan authorities for militant Salafi activists.
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with a speedboat manned by suicide bombers. In July 2003, in a trial unrelated to the
Casablanca bombings, ten members of the group were sentenced to death, and eight others to life imprisonment. In February 2004, two cells in
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were dismantled, with 37 people arrested after explosives and weapons were discovered during raids. A Salafia
Jihadia network operating in several Moroccan towns, including
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gave 27 people, also all members of Salafia Jihadia sentences ranging from six months to 15 years for their involvement in the attacks.
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On 16 May 2003, twelve suicide bombers from the Salafia Jihadia cell Al-Sirat Al-Musqatim ("The Correct Path") were responsible for
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that killed 191 people and wounded over 2,000. One of the terrorists convicted for the bombings,
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