Algerian security services arrest a Moroccan heading for “Jihad” in Libya

Security services of Ain Amenas Department, Illizi (southern Algeria) arrested on Saturday night to Sunday, a Moroccan national “Y.M” 45, who entered to Algeria illegally, since last week, coming from Maghnia (western Algeria), and heading to Libya -according to his initial statements to the security services-.

Security services suspected the Moroccan national, as Echorouk sources said, he was likely to go to Libya to join the terrorist groups, after this country has become the fertile ground for the training of nationals from several countries, and sending them to the Arab and Islamic countries, which have known tensions in the framework of what is known as the “jihadist elements”, including Syria, which is on top of these countries.

Security services continue their investigations with the Moroccan national to discover the reason of his presence in Algeria, especially as the relationship between the two countries is noticing a remarkable conflict during the recent period, due to the discontent position of the Moroccan Regime towards the letter of the President Bouteflika to the Abuja Summit in Niger on the issue of Western Sahara, as it considered Bouteflika’s speech an escalation against it, before it decided to desecrate the Algerian flag, which was waved down in Algeria consulate to Casablanca, Morocco, without action by the Moroccan authorities to protect this diplomatic body, and before it call for the ambassador to Algiers , Abdullah Belkeziz, for consultation in the same framework. A position that Algeria expressed regrets about it.

Furthermore, joint security services reinforced control on the common borders with the neighboring countries, which noticed internal disturbances. They also supported the troops on the Algerian-Moroccan borders in the context of tightening measures to fight smuggling operations which destroy the national economy, after the Western Wilayas experienced a crisis of fuel, as investigations proved that it was directed towards Morocco where it is sold at competitive prices, in the absence of an alternative in the Kingdom.

Various parties linked its repercussions with the recent crisis between the two countries, especially since Algeria’s position towards Western Sahara has not changed and its discourse about it is the same that was delivered in Abuja by the Minister of Justice on behalf of the President Bouteflika.