An appeal opens Wednesday in the case of 24 men convicted over the beheadings of two young Scandinavian women on a hiking trip in Morocco's High ...
SALE, Morocco: An appeal opens on Wednesday in the case of 24 men convicted over the beheadings ofThe appeal at the court in Sale, near Rabat, comes six weeks after three Islamic State group supporters were sentenced to death over the murders which have shocked the North African country.The other defendants, including the only non-Moroccan, Spanish-Swiss Muslim convert Kevin Zoller Guervos, were handed jail terms ranging from five years to life.
Jespersen and her hiking companion 28-year-old Norwegian Maren Ueland, nature lovers who were training to be guides, were on a Christmas holiday hiking trip when they were killed.Prosecutors and social media users had called for the death penalty for all three main suspects, despite Morocco having a de facto freeze on executions since 1993.
Third alleged assailant, 33-year-old Rachid Afatti, had admitted to filming the grisly murders on his mobile phone. The court, for its part, has ordered the three main accused to pay 2 million dirhams in compensation to Ueland's parents, although El Fataoui has said they did not have the means.
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