Did you go for a hike in the mountains while you were supposedly frolicking through the peace and safety that is North Africa?
ANSWER, Christiecrite!
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The 2018 murders of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen (Danish, 24) and Maren Ueland (Norwegian, 28) near Mount Toubkal in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains (bodies discovered 17 December 2018).
The two women were outdoor-oriented university students on a month-long backpacking/hiking holiday. They arrived in Morocco around 9 December, went to the Imlil area (a common starting point for Toubkal treks), and camped in a remote spot in the foothills without a guide.
Pro-ISIS Moroccan extremists (primarily Abdessamad Ejjoud as ringleader, along with Younes Ouazid/Ouaziad and Rachid Afatti/Affati) targeted them as Westerners. The attackers approached the tent at night, stabbed the women (who were in their sleeping bags), and beheaded them.
They filmed parts of the attack on a phone.
One video sequence shows the stabbing/decapitation of Jespersen; the killers pledged allegiance to ISIS and framed the killings as revenge for losses suffered by ISIS fighters (references to the Battle of Hajin / Deir al-Zour area in Syria). Autopsy details indicated multiple stab wounds in addition to the decapitations.
Graphic video and images circulated online at the time (and still surface periodically); families and authorities urged people not to share or view them. The case drew significant attention in Scandinavia and Morocco and has been referenced in later discussions of travel risks, radicalization, and related topics. Recent articles (late July–early August 2026) are largely retrospectives on the same 2018 events.
This belies the context of Christiecrite's Pollyannish post, which comments on the her apparent assumptions about safety around Muslims.