Said women victims were ‘enemies of God’
being behind the attack, where they pledge their support for the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Before the backdrop of a black and white flag, one of the men is armed with a knife as he speaks out at the “destruction caused by the warplanes of the Crusader alliance”.
They also appeared to jeer at Morocco’s intelligence service and said: “Where is your knowledge?”
Ms Ueland and Ms Vesterager Jespersen, who were studying to be outdoor guides at a Norwegian university, were seen with three men in Marrakesh.
They then set off to hike in the Atlas Mountains. Officials said one of the suspects ‘RA’, from the small village of Douar el Caid, outside Marrakesh, was born in 1985 and works as a salesman.
Meanwhile, the second suspect, ‘AE’, a carpenter born in 1991, lives in the Azzouzia district of Marrakesh.
And the third, ‘OA’, born in 1993, lives in the Derb Zeroual neighbourhood of Marrakesh.
Three of the arrests happened at a Marrakesh bus station after a trader warned police that they were armed with knives as they bought water.
Police jumped onto the bus and seized four knives on the southbound bus heading towards the seaside town of Agadir.
The Danish intelligence service said: “Preliminary investigations of a video shared on social media purporting to show the killing of one of the tourists had found that it was shot in a different place from where the bodies were found.
“The video and preliminary investigation according to the Moroccan authorities indicate that the killings may be related to the terrorist organisation Islamic State.”
Denmark’s prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen described the killings as “politically motivated and thus an act of terror”.