Implementation, financing and praise .. a research paper that monitors the fight against Moroccan terrorism law

In conjunction with the succession of the Moroccan security authorities, terrorist operations plans, which reviewed a legal arsenal research paper to which the Kingdom had previously established in order to address the actions related to the implementation, financing and support of terrorism.

The paper issued within the March issue of the “Researcher for Research and Scientific Studies” magazine explained that “the Moroccan legislator, like other legislation, aims to protect state security by setting a criminal policy in the field of combating terrorist crimes and creating a legal arsenal that defines terrorist acts and the pillars of their establishment and setting penalties for them, especially after the painful incident of the sixteenth of May 2003; Perhaps the manifestations of this came within Law 03.03 related to combating terrorism.

It also concluded the importance of “the Moroccan legislator provides for the independence of the crime of financing terrorism, whether in terms of the actions stipulated and its penalty, in order not to interfere with the crime of money laundering, although the two crimes are considered organized crimes that in turn increase the strength of the interdependence between them, especially when the washed money contributes to financing terrorist organizations.”

Among the recommendations that came within the same paper, “the importance of strengthening national and international mechanisms to combat all aspects of terrorist financing, including supporting terrorist organizations through electronic or traditional means, and then raising the criminal sanctions associated with the financing of terrorism always.”

The same source touched on the presence of criminalization of terrorism at the level of national legislative texts, as he pointed out that “with regard to the original crimes, we find among them what is related to intentionally assaulting the lives, safety, freedom, kidnapping, or detention of them, in addition to what is stipulated in chapters 360, 361 and 362 of the criminal law regarding falsifying or falsifying money or public loan documents of the state (…), as well as theft and extraction of funds or money Industry, possession, transportation, promotion, or use of weapons, explosives and ammunition.

He also warned that Moroccan legal texts also talk about everything related to “crimes related to automated treatment systems”, including “forming a gang for preparing or committing an act of terrorism and hiding the things obtained from a terrorist crime, knowing this, as well as harm to human health, animal or environment.”

Among the prominent points also, according to the aforementioned source, “Criminalization of Law 03.03 related to combating terrorism is action, even if they are not related to an individual or collective project aimed at touched the serious public order, including praise of terrorist crime by discourse, shouting or threats that are inspired in places and public meetings, or by written or distributed publications or distributed publications (…); All of these crimes remain confused with their original counterpart.

The author of the research study also recalled the approval of the Moroccan legislator texts “criminalizing all forms of financing and support provided to terrorist elements”, given that “the implementation of these extremist acts requires financial financing, and continuing to implement them as plans that destabilize national and international stability still needs support as well.”

Referring to the aforementioned legal text, the same academic source indicated that “it turns out that the crime of financing terrorism is a formal crime that does not require the achievement of the criminal result,” noting that “within the framework of preventive philosophy to deter this type of crime, the Moroccan legislator has worked to protect against the danger before the damage that would cause the terrorist act on the ground.”