| A Moroccan Islamist suspected of being part of an extremist group responsible for a series of deadly attacks in Casablanca last month, has been accused by the state prosecutor of "inciting violence." "Mohamed Fizazi, alias Abu Mariam, is part of a group of people who spread extremist ideas inciting Jihad (holy war) and violence," the public prosecutor was reported having said at the weekend when the suspect appeared before him. A former teacher from the northern Moroccan city of Tangiers, 54-year-old Fizazi "is considered as being a theoretician for the Salafia Jihadia [Salafi Jihad]" extremist group which has been accused of involvement in attacks that rocked Casablanca on May 16, the MAP news agency quoted the prosecutor as saying. Fizazi was arrested after the Asharqu al Awsat newspaper published an interview with him last Tuesday. |