2011 Marrakesh bombing

Seventeen people were killed, of which fourteen died on the site, while three more succumbed to their injuries the next day. Twenty-five people were injured, four seriously, including Russian computer hacker Roman Seleznev, a portion of whose skull was blown off. The casualties were eight French nationals, including a ten-year-old girl, an Israeli-Canadian woman and her Moroccan husband, another Moroccan citizen, a British man, a Dutchman, two Swiss citizens, a Portuguese and a Canadian. Among the injured, fourteen were hospitalised and four were repatriated to their country the next day, while others left the hospital after receiving the necessary care. ==Responsibility==

Morocco blamed Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb for the bombing. The group has been fighting an insurgent campaign since 2002. However, Al Qaeda denied responsibility for the blast. Hakim Dah received a life sentence. Four others were given four years and three were given a two-year sentence for their roles. The defendants complained that the case against them was based on confessions coerced through torture and lacked hard evidence. ==International reactions==

– President Serzh Sargsyan sent his condolences to the King of Morocco and stated his support "in finding the culprits and bringing them to justice". issued a strong condemnation of the blasts; French president Nicolas Sarkozy describing them as "cruel and cowardly". Alain Juppé, the French foreign minister, denounced what it considered to be a "barbaric terrorist attack that nothing can justify", calling for "all light to be shed on this revolting crime, for those responsible to be found, tried and punished". urged that the attack "must not stop the reform process that has been initiated in Morocco", referring to the ongoing "Arab Spring". == References ==