The three arrested on Thursday were all Moroccan nationals, state media quoted the country's interior ministry, as saying.
The ministry said the chief suspect was "well-versed in jihadi ideology and shows loyalty to al Qaeda", who had previously tried to fight alongside Islamist fighters in Chechnya and Iraq.
It said he dressed like a tourist to plant two remote-detonated devices, which then tore through a cafe overlooking Marrakesh's Jemaa el-Fna square, a spot that is often packed with tourists.
A security official told AFP news agency that the three suspects were arrested in the town of Safi, 350km south of Casablanca.
It was the first such attack in Morocco since 2003, when suicide bombings in Casablanca, killed at least 45 people.
Nearly a week after the bombing, Morocco's Islamists movements said they felt reassured that authorities acted with restraint and did not carry out mass arrests as they did in the wake of 2003 attacks
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