Algeria accuses Moroccan national of spying via communications network
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Yabiladi
Algeria’s National Gendarmerie announced the dismantling in Tipaza of an “organised criminal network” including a Moroccan national accused of installing an electronic communications system for “hostile foreign entities”. The announcement adds to a series of similar accusations by Algiers against Rabat in recent months, according to the Algerian Defence Ministry cited by Yabiladi.
Algeria’s National Gendarmerie announced the dismantling in Tipaza of an electronic communications network that it describes as criminal, with a Moroccan national arrested. The network allegedly installed and operated a system enabling secret communications with foreign entities described as hostile by the Algerian authorities, according to the Defence Ministry.
Members of the network allegedly used equipment to conceal their identities and evade surveillance by security services, according to the Defence Ministry. The Algerian authorities had recently announced the dismantling of another network involving 61 Moroccan nationals, whom they accused of preparing acts threatening public security, according to Yabiladi.
The Algerian authorities also accused Morocco of being involved in forest fires, drug trafficking into Algeria and, on 10 November, the deliberate contamination of water in a dam in Tlemcen wilaya, according to Yabiladi.
