3 S**entenced to Death for K**illing Scandinavian Hikers in Morocco Maren Ueland Video Three men accused of the m**urder of two Scandinavian hikers in the Atlas Mountains last year have been s**entenced to d**eath, an an**titerrorism court in Morocco decided on Thursday.
Maren Ueland, 28, of Norway and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, of Denmark, were discovered d**ead at their campsite in a remote part of the Atlas Mountains in December 2018 with wounds to their necks.
The incident was labeled by Moroccan authorities as a terror attack after some of the men involved pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
The men were tried under an antiterrorism law and were the main defendants in a case that put two dozen suspects on trial over the women’s deaths last year.
Nine more people have been arrested in Morocco over links to the four initial suspects in the murder of two Scandinavian university students in a remote corner of the Atlas mountains, authorities said.
A total of 13 men have been detained after the m**urder of the female hikers from Denmark and Norway. Moroccan authorities are treating the k***illings as a t***errorist act. The women’s bodies were found on Monday with stab wounds to their necks.
