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00:16The news continues on Mediain TV. Welcome to this new edition of La Mie-Journée.
00:24In Morocco, the dismantling of a terrorist cell linked to Daesh in the province of Arachidia,
00:30the Central Office of Judicial Investigation has made it possible to discover a mountainous area
00:36suspected of being used as the logistics support base.
00:43Today, Saudi Arabia welcomes a meeting of eight Arab leaders
00:49to discuss a plan in response to Donald Trump's proposal.
00:54The American president wants to place the Gaza Strip under American control
00:59and move the population from the Palestinian territory.
01:04The Ukrainian president is under pressure to cooperate very quickly with the United States
01:11in order to put an end to the war against Russia.
01:14Volodymyr Zelensky, nevertheless, pleads for solid relations with Washington.
01:25In Morocco, in the province of Arachidia, new elements discovered on the terrorist plan linked to Daesh
01:32have been dismantled in the Sahel region.
01:35Research carried out by the Central Office of Judicial Investigation
01:40has made it possible to discover the existence of a mountainous area
01:44suspected of being used as the logistics support base.
01:50The developments of Souheil Jalil.
01:53Discovered by the PSIJ, a logistics base near Arachidia
01:57and large quantities of firearms and ammunition.
02:00Investigations carried out by the Central Office of Judicial Investigation
02:04from the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance,
02:07as part of the ongoing investigation into the dismantling of a terrorist network
02:11affiliated with the Daesh organization in the Sahel region,
02:14have made it possible to identify the suspected area in the province of Arachidia,
02:18more precisely on the eastern bank of the Wadgir, at the level of Chelmzil,
02:22in the municipality and circumscription of Wadnam,
02:25located in the region of Boudnib, on the eastern border of the kingdom.
02:29Field inspections and mapping operations have revealed
02:32that the suspected area is at the foot of a rocky relief
02:35difficult to access due to unscheduled escarpment paths.
02:39This situation required the deployment of suitable logistical means
02:43to facilitate access to the site and carry out the necessary searches,
02:47as well as the required preliminary investigations,
02:49in accordance with the security and safety protocols
02:52applicable to terrorist threats,
02:54in particular in places suspected of containing weapons and explosives.
02:58The PSIJ mobilized Sinophil units specialized in explosive detection,
03:02metal detection devices,
03:05an analysis and identification device of suspected substances,
03:08explosive detection robots,
03:11as well as an X-ray scanning system.
03:14Search and rescue operations, which lasted about three hours,
03:17allowed to discover a load of weapons and ammunition
03:20buried in an isolated place at the foot of the rocky relief.
03:24The weapons were packed in plastic bags
03:26and newspapers printed in Mali,
03:28including abdominals dated January 27, 2025.
03:32The weapons seized during this operation
03:34included two Kalashnikov assault rifles with two magazines,
03:37two hunting rifles,
03:39ten different caliber pistols,
03:41as well as a large amount of cartridges
03:43and ammunition of various calibers.
03:45All the weapons and ammunition seized were placed under seal
03:49and inspected in detail
03:51in view of their transmission to the National Laboratory of the Scientific Police
03:55to be subjected to the necessary ballistic and technical expertise.
03:59In parallel to these ground operations,
04:01investigations and investigations carried out by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation
04:05are being carried out under the supervision of Parquet Compéton
04:08in order to reveal all the ramifications of this terrorist network
04:11and to identify its links with the African branch of Daesh in the Sahel region.
04:17On the subject of these new elements discovered in the province of Al-Hashidiyah
04:22on the terrorist plan linked to Daesh
04:24and played out in the Sahel region,
04:26I propose the analysis of Bakary Semba,
04:29Regional Director of Timbuktu Institute.
04:36Yes, I think it shows that the spaces of the Maghreb and the Sahel
04:41are very, very linked
04:43and that there is no barrier, frankly speaking,
04:45and there is no tension.
04:47And that shows that it is important
04:49to develop a more sustained cooperation.
04:51It also shows that Morocco
04:53has been targeted by these attempted attacks
04:59from the Sahel,
05:01where the Islamic State is trying
05:03to compete with the Islamic Maghreb.
05:06We are making a lot of efforts.
05:08Today, sub-Saharan Africa
05:10is becoming the weak link
05:12where Daesh intends to redeploy
05:14after its weakening in the Middle East and Europe.
05:17I think that first of all, what is targeted is the model.
05:19The Moroccan model,
05:21which is a tolerant Islam model,
05:23of an inclusive society,
05:25of a country that is taking off
05:27and that is developing
05:29and that finds itself in positive initiatives
05:31like the Atlantic Initiative, etc.
05:33This model is not everyone's taste in the region,
05:35if we know that there are villages
05:37and countries, perhaps,
05:39that would not play the game
05:41and that are not in the same perspective
05:43and the vision of securitization of the Sahel as Morocco,
05:45which, I remind you, is involved in the Sahel,
05:47especially in the fight against extreme violence,
05:49in the support of local governments
05:51and in the support of these countries
05:53to have more capacity to fight
05:55against terrorism.
05:57All this makes Morocco a target
05:59for these cells
06:01and that, definitely,
06:03the Islamic State
06:05will be able, at least,
06:07to deploy from the Sahel
06:09to threaten Morocco
06:11and other countries in the region.
06:13Still on this subject,
06:15the head of the Institute of Political,
06:17Juridical and Social Sciences
06:19at the University of Mondiapolis
06:21said that small separatist groups
06:23would have helped the terrorists
06:25to get their weapons
06:27to Morocco.
06:29Let's listen to Ali Larichi.
06:31Yes, so
06:33it's the border area
06:35with our neighbor from the East.
06:37So the choice of this area
06:39is not trivial.
06:41You have to see
06:43the borders,
06:45that is, this area
06:47is the neighbor of Algeria.
06:49This area is,
06:51I would say,
06:53in the eastern border
06:55of Morocco with Algeria.
06:57And this area is close to...
07:03If we see the spread
07:05of the Islamic State in the Sahel
07:07or other small groups,
07:09they are in the north of Mali
07:11and then it's the border
07:13with Algeria
07:15and especially with Morocco.
07:17So we think there is
07:19a hand that intervened.
07:21There are other
07:23terrorist groups,
07:25or I would say
07:27separatists, who could have
07:29perhaps helped
07:31these terrorist groups to get
07:33their weapons.
07:35And here we recall the summit
07:37that was held in Marrakech in 2022
07:39of the Coalition
07:41against...
07:43the World Coalition against Daesh
07:45where there was a conclusion
07:47with which this summit came out,
07:49that separatists
07:51and terrorists
07:53act together in areas
07:55where there is fragility.
07:57So fragility
07:59in the north of Mali,
08:01fragility in the Sahel,
08:03but there are certainly
08:05actors who have collaborated
08:07or cooperated with these groups
08:09to get their weapons
08:11at the level of
08:13Al-Rashidiyah,
08:15that is,
08:17in the eastern,
08:19oriental zone of Morocco,
08:21which is borderline with Algeria.
08:23In the rest of the news,
08:25thanks to the enlightened vision
08:27of His Majesty King Mohammed VI,
08:29Morocco has made the African continent
08:31a cornerstone
08:33of its foreign policy.
08:35Affirmation Thursday in Rabat
08:37of the head of Moroccan diplomacy,
08:39Nasser Boureta.
08:41He intervened at the opening of the forum
08:43of the presidents of the commissions
08:45of foreign affairs of the African parliaments.
08:47For the head of diplomacy,
08:49Africa is not only
08:51a neighborhood of the kingdom,
08:53but rather a land of identity
08:55and geographical and historical
08:57belonging.
08:59By placing Africa at the heart
09:01of foreign policy,
09:03Morocco is thus in its natural position,
09:05adding that everything
09:07concerning Africa
09:09directly affects Morocco.
09:13Vivo Energy Morocco
09:15and Royal Air Morocco
09:17launched on Thursday the first flight
09:19linking Morocco and Europe,
09:21neutral, in carbon,
09:23and equipped with
09:25sustainable aviation fuel.
09:27This is the flight Marrakech-Paris,
09:29carried by a Boeing 737-NG
09:31type aircraft
09:33carrying 151 passengers,
09:35which was carried out
09:37by the Moroccan Air Company.
09:39This initiative
09:41highlights the commitment
09:43of the two companies in favor
09:45of more sustainable aviation in Morocco,
09:47while contributing
09:49to more responsible tourism,
09:51while the kingdom,
09:53we know, has become
09:55the favorite tourist destination
09:57in Africa.
09:59Saudi Arabia
10:01welcomes today
10:03a summit bringing together
10:05eight Arab leaders
10:07to discuss a plan
10:09in response to Donald Trump's
10:11proposal. The American president
10:13wants to place the Gaza Strip
10:15under American control
10:17and move the population
10:19of the Palestinian territory.
10:21Saudi Arabia has not yet
10:23announced when it will
10:25hold the summit. A diplomatic source
10:27has indicated that discussions
10:29should begin around
10:313 p.m. local time.
10:33Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
10:35arrived in Riyadh
10:37on Thursday evening to
10:39participate in the meeting,
10:41while Qatar's Emir
10:43Tamim bin Hamad el-Thani
10:45confirmed
10:47his participation.
10:49And the refusal
10:51of the Palestinians to travel
10:53has been the subject of a rare
10:55Arab consensus, but
10:57disagreements could break out
10:59on the governance of Gaza
11:01and the financing of its
11:03reconstruction. Here is
11:05the analysis of Adel Atif Komet,
11:07faculty dean at Casablanca.
11:09So the question
11:11of financing is
11:13a fundamental question
11:15because the United Nations
11:17have evaluated a budget of 53
11:19billion dollars. So it's a huge amount.
11:21So of course
11:23we have to wait for an international
11:25call, an international conference
11:27as has been the case
11:29for major international
11:31financing. So it's
11:33a challenge because it's
11:35practically about reconstructing the Gaza Strip.
11:37Everything has been destroyed. Infrastructure,
11:39water, electricity,
11:41airports, roads and of course
11:43housing. So all of this
11:45arouses, of course,
11:47a very important financial demotion.
11:49So of course there is also the question
11:51of governance, which is also being asked.
11:53Today it's Hamas, but
11:55in fact today there is
11:57a call for perhaps
11:59the question of unification of the Palestinians
12:01to come back to the table
12:03because we have
12:05in fact in Gaza
12:07we have Hamas and then
12:09in terms of the territory
12:11under the authority
12:13of the Palestinian Authority
12:15and of course divergences in terms
12:17of the political approach in terms of
12:19governance. We will have to
12:21unify the Palestinian
12:23people and then
12:25the question of whether Hamas
12:27will continue to dominate the Gaza Strip
12:29will there be
12:31the Palestinian Authority
12:33taking control of the Gaza Strip
12:35or will another system of governance
12:37be put in place. In any case
12:39the question of governance is
12:41put in place and it will
12:43be the object of
12:45of course there is first of all the final agreement
12:47which is being
12:49negotiated with
12:51the United States, Israel,
12:53the Arab countries and
12:55Palestine as part
12:57of a permanent ceasefire
12:59but also beyond the ceasefire
13:01it is clearly, I would say, the destination
13:03of the governance of this region
13:05and it is the object of
13:07the Arab countries' conference
13:09but also at the level
13:11of the agreements that will
13:13be prepared for a
13:15lasting ceasefire. All of this
13:17will raise this question which is
13:19an important dimension.
13:21Hamas accuses
13:23the Israeli Prime Minister
13:25Benjamin Netanyahu of
13:27tergiversing on the second
13:29phase of the ceasefire agreement
13:31in the Gaza Strip.
13:33The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs
13:35Jideon Saar had
13:37declared at the beginning of the week
13:39that negotiations on the second
13:41phase of the ceasefire
13:43were about to begin. Since the
13:45beginning of the first phase of the ceasefire
13:4719 Israeli hostages have been
13:49released in exchange for more
13:51than 1,100 Palestinian prisoners.
13:53The Hamas
13:55armed branch confirms
13:57the release of 6 other Israeli
13:59hostages tomorrow,
14:01Saturday.
14:03The Ukrainian President
14:05pleads for strong
14:07relations between his country
14:09and the United States after
14:11a productive exchange in Kiev
14:13with the American emissary
14:15Volodymyr Zelensky
14:17under pressure to cooperate
14:19very quickly with the United States
14:21to put an end to the war
14:23against Russia. More details
14:25with Raja Ngo.
14:27Relations are
14:29tightening between the United States
14:31and Ukraine. The close
14:33between Moscow and Washington
14:35fears a break in
14:37relations between the two countries.
14:39This tense situation between Donald Trump
14:41and Volodymyr Zelensky occurs
14:43after the Russian-American discussions
14:45on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia
14:47without the participation of Kiev.
14:49His frustration with President Zelensky
14:51is
14:53very frustrated
14:55by the fact that he did not come
14:57to the negotiating table,
14:59that he did not want to seize the opportunity
15:01that we offered him.
15:03In his first term
15:05a few days after the third anniversary
15:07of the beginning of the Russian invasion,
15:09Volodymyr Zelensky recalled
15:11that he wanted the end of this war
15:13from its first seconds. Despite these tensions,
15:15the Ukrainian president received Thursday
15:17in Kiev the American emissary
15:19Keith Kellogg, with whom he said
15:21he had had productive exchanges.
15:23He also pleaded
15:25for strong relations between
15:27his country and the United States.
15:29I told General Kellogg
15:31that we need
15:33a strong agreement
15:35with America, but also
15:37economic and security interests
15:39must always go hand in hand,
15:41and the details of the agreement are important,
15:43especially the need for a reliable
15:45and well-defined security guarantee
15:47so that the war does not return.
15:49We all need peace, Ukraine,
15:51Europe, America.
15:53After the resumption
15:55of bilateral relations
15:57between the Americans and the Russians,
15:59the Kremlin announced Thursday
16:01that it had decided with Washington
16:03to resume dialogue
16:05on all parameters.
16:07At the same time, Moscow announced
16:09a new military operation
16:11in Ukraine.
16:13I have decided
16:15to carry out a special military operation.
16:17It aims to protect
16:19people who have been persecuted
16:21and subjected to a genocide
16:23by the Kiev regime for eight years.
16:25For this, we will strive to demilitarize Ukraine
16:27and we will pursue in justice
16:29those who have committed multiple crimes
16:31without the meeting of civilians,
16:33including Russian citizens.
16:39On the ground, Russian strikes,
16:41which continue, have killed
16:43at least four people on Thursday
16:45in the eastern region of Donetsk.
16:49And it's time for the guest
16:51of the big news
16:53of the day on Median TV.
16:55We are live in Rabat
16:57with Nizar Derdabi,
16:59an analyst in international strategy
17:01and teacher
17:03at the School of Economic War
17:05in Paris.
17:07He comes back on the seizure
17:09of firearms and ammunition
17:11by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation
17:13in the province of Arachidia.
17:15Hello and thank you
17:17for responding to our invitation.
17:21Hello and thank you
17:23for inviting me.
17:25We will start
17:27with a rare event.
17:29On Wednesday, February 19,
17:31thanks to the cooperation
17:33of the Moroccan Security Service,
17:35the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation
17:37has arrested
17:3912 individuals suspected
17:41of having pledged allegiance
17:43to the Daesh terrorist organization.
17:45What is your assessment
17:47of this cooperation
17:49between the various
17:51national security services?
17:53First of all,
17:55I think it is necessary
17:57to note that we have just
17:59witnessed a series
18:01of successive
18:03dismantling operations in recent days.
18:05This indicates
18:07that the Moroccan security services
18:09have been monitoring
18:11different cells
18:13scattered throughout the territory
18:15for a while,
18:17which surely have a link
18:19to the organization,
18:21to the leadership,
18:23and above all,
18:25to the team
18:27or the thinking head
18:29who conducts all these operations
18:31and who are
18:33under the banner of Daesh.
18:35So,
18:37it is
18:39important to say
18:41that before
18:43taking action,
18:45as the security services have done,
18:47there is a stage
18:49of surveillance
18:51and at a time
18:53when the danger
18:55is real,
18:57the units of the different
18:59security services take action
19:01to arrest the active members
19:03of these
19:05different groups,
19:07to seize all the necessary
19:09means
19:11and especially the means
19:13they have in their equipment
19:15to take action.
19:17This includes very important
19:19Kalashnikov rifles,
19:21Chach rifles, pistols,
19:23but also explosives,
19:25as we have seen
19:27during the dismantling
19:29of the Headswell cell.
19:31And then,
19:33one last point,
19:35as you have noted,
19:37is that all these operations
19:39are done in close collaboration
19:41with the different
19:43Moroccan security services.
19:45There is the LIDE
19:47in the fight against terrorism
19:49in Morocco,
19:51but this fight is done
19:53in close collaboration
19:55with
19:57different other forces,
19:59such as the armed forces,
20:01which have a global coverage
20:03and presence
20:05throughout the national territory,
20:07in collaboration also with the elements
20:09of the Gendarmerie,
20:11which also have a cap of judicial police
20:13and which have a very good control
20:15of the rural area,
20:17also in close collaboration
20:19with the DGSN,
20:21at the level of large cities,
20:23but also small agglomerations,
20:25but also with all the elements
20:27that relate to the administration
20:29of the Ministry of the Interior,
20:31which ensures a very good
20:33network of the entire territory.
20:35It should be noted that
20:37one of the axes,
20:39one of the pillars of the fight
20:41between each of these services
20:43that I mentioned,
20:45is the day before,
20:47territorial surveillance,
20:49and also that there are committees
20:51at the provincial level,
20:53that is to say at the local level,
20:55at the regional level,
20:57at the level of the Wilea,
20:59but also committees at the central level.
21:01These are the Minister of the Interior
21:03with the Director
21:05of the National Security,
21:07the Commander of the Gendarmerie,
21:09etc.
21:11who meet regularly
21:13to level up
21:15and above all to exchange
21:17the main information
21:19that affects security
21:21and particularly in the field
21:23of the anti-terrorist struggle.
21:25So, Mr. Deltaby,
21:27the investigations carried out
21:29by the PSIJ
21:31allowed to locate
21:33a logistics support
21:35rear base
21:37of weapons and ammunition
21:39intended for the members
21:41of the terrorist cell dismantled
21:43last Wednesday.
21:45Does this location of weapons
21:47not confirm the pursuit
21:49of terrorist threats in Morocco
21:51fueled by the organization
21:53of Daesh terrorists?
21:55Absolutely,
21:57absolutely.
21:59We know that Morocco
22:01is one of the countries
22:03that is the most
22:05active in the circulation
22:07of weapons on the national territory.
22:09This is thanks to
22:11a very strict
22:13legislative arsenal
22:15in terms of control
22:17and possession of firearms.
22:19All this, of course,
22:21to avoid a proliferation
22:23on the field of firearms,
22:25because firearms remain
22:27the main tool used by terrorists
22:29at the same time as explosives.
22:31Thanks also to a very
22:33strict legislative arsenal
22:35on the territory.
22:37We see it when we move
22:39between cities.
22:41We have police and gendarmerie
22:43barrages that are there to control
22:45the circulation of people,
22:47but also, perhaps,
22:49the transport of weapons
22:51or dangerous materials
22:53that could be used
22:55for similar
22:57terrorist operations.
22:59So,
23:01the analysis I make is that...
23:03Yes, I would like to hear
23:05you on another subject.
23:07Related to this one,
23:09the search and search operations
23:11that lasted more than three hours
23:13allowed the discovery
23:15of a load of weapons
23:17and ammunition buried
23:19at the foot of a rocky hill
23:21packed in plastic bags
23:23and newspapers
23:25published in Mali.
23:27Is the Sahel now
23:29the new territory
23:31for Moroccan terrorists?
23:33If you allow me,
23:35I will quickly come back
23:37to the location of the weapons
23:39that have been found.
23:41It is important to note
23:43that the weapons have been
23:45located and recovered
23:47by the security services
23:49in a remote area.
23:51All this to show
23:53that the cities in Morocco
23:55are sufficiently monitored.
23:57This makes it difficult
23:59for terrorists in Morocco
24:01to introduce weapons
24:03into the cities.
24:05That is why I think
24:07that the choice was made
24:09in a region that is not very inhabited.
24:11Hence the ease of hiding
24:13these weapons.
24:15And surely these cells
24:17projected in the short or medium term
24:19to recover these weapons
24:21and then take action.
24:23In my opinion,
24:25this explains the current intervention
24:27of the security services.
24:29To answer your question,
24:31it is obvious that there is a clue
24:33through, as you said,
24:35the newspapers in which
24:37the weapons and resources
24:39were found.
24:41Unfortunately,
24:43we know that the Sahel,
24:45Mali among others,
24:47but also the zone of the three borders
24:49between Mali, Burkina Faso
24:51and Niger
24:53has become a sanctuary
24:55used by terrorist groups.
24:57Whether those affiliated to Daesh
24:59or those affiliated to Al-Qaeda.
25:01Unfortunately,
25:03we also know
25:05that a large number
25:07of war weapons
25:09are circulating in these regions
25:11and it is logical
25:13that weapons such as those
25:15that were recovered in the province of Rashidiyah
25:17can come
25:19from Mali.
25:21I think that
25:23this is the next step
25:25for which
25:27the security services
25:29and especially
25:31the investigators in charge of this investigation
25:33will work to find
25:35the ramifications and the circuits
25:37that were able to introduce these weapons
25:39on the Moroccan territory
25:41and what are the links
25:43that connect these cells
25:45that were arrested in Morocco
25:47and the commanders,
25:49who are at the level of the Sahel,
25:51are implanted in these regions
25:53and unfortunately,
25:55this is where the programming comes from,
25:57the planning of the targets to be targeted.
25:59So very briefly,
26:01Mr. Adel Dhabi,
26:03we have very little time left.
26:05I would like to hear you on this subject.
26:07Morocco leads one of the most effective
26:09anti-terrorist policies in the Arab world,
26:11we know it, with the help of a vast
26:13international cooperation.
26:15How do you assess this
26:17international anti-terrorist policy in Morocco?
26:19Very briefly, please.
26:21Morocco has understood
26:23for a long time,
26:25since the attacks in Casablanca
26:27in 2003,
26:29that to fight effectively
26:31against this plague,
26:33which is global, which does not spare any continent,
26:35that it was not necessary
26:37to base or focus
26:39the fight only on the interior security domain,
26:41but that it was necessary to touch
26:43other domains, the socio-economic domain,
26:45the reform of the religious field,
26:47I will not
26:51talk about it in detail,
26:53but also on the capital
26:55axis, the axis of cooperation.
26:57Why? Because the threat is global,
26:59we have a common enemy,
27:01and for this,
27:03the security forces
27:05of all countries,
27:07whether they are allies
27:09or not,
27:11as long as
27:13diplomatic and political
27:15ties are very strong,
27:17or let's say
27:19in a normal framework,
27:21it is useful to participate
27:23and to be
27:25in the framework of a cooperation
27:27of all services
27:29and all stakeholders.
27:31Thank you very much, Nizar Derdabi,
27:33analyst in international strategy
27:35and teacher at the
27:37School of Economic War in Paris.
27:39Thank you for answering
27:41the questions of Mediain TV.
27:47That's it, that was the
27:49essential news of the midday.
27:51The information continues
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