A Moroccan court has sentenced to death the man convicted of orchestrating an April attack at a Marrakesh cafe that killed 17, and sentenced one of his accomplices to life in prison.
The anti-terrorism court in Sale, near the capital Rabat, delivered the death penalty verdict on Friday against Adil Al-Atmani and gave the life sentence to Hakim Dah, an AFP journalist reported.
When the verdict was announced, Atmani's sister started shouting in the courtroom and prevented the judge from reading the verdicts of the eight other defendants. She then fainted.
Four of the defendants were sentenced to four years in prison, while the remaining three were given three years.
Morocco still has a death penalty provision in its criminal code, but has not carried out an execution since 1992.
