In the past few months Morocco has made headlines for attempting to abolish the death penalty, subsequently sentencing a prisoner to death (but not - yet - executing him), pardoning of 9,000 inmates on the day of Lalla Khadija (the daughter of the king), and for the suicide attack in Casablanca early this week - which turned out to have been committed by a former prisoner pardoned after being held after the 2003 Casablanca bombings.

Blad schizo.

Abdelfattah Raydi, who was 23 and from Sidi Moumen, was one of 2,000 men arrested in 2003 at the age of 19 for being members of Salafist groups in the slums surrounding Casablanca.  Along with 163 others (some of whom were arrested as accomplices to the recent bombing), he was given a royal pardon in 2005.

So now, according to various sites, either 9 or 13 men have been arrested in relation to the recent Sidi Moumen cybercafe attack (which, incidentally, was allegedly meant to target tourist spots in Casa, but instead the bomber detonated his bomb after becoming angry with the cafe owner’s son for not allowing him to view “jihadist” websites, as I mentioned before).

I wonder if they’ll be given the death penalty…