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In an authoritarian context, the routine performance of legal work involves the production of a formally plausible but effectively truncated fiction. We observe that the production of normality becomes remarkable because of an observable discrepancy between the display of ordinary justice and the practice of exceptional and subordinate justice. In this contribution, we present a Moroccan case of Islamic terrorism, the way it was handled by a court in charge of terrorism cases, and the way in which this court produced a legal normality, at the cost of a surreal denial of the obvious and the affirmation of a truth in which respect for form takes precedence over credibility.