The lawyer for Omar Raddad said he was “scandalized” by this decision, announcing that it “[would seize] the European Court of Human Rights”. Sentenced in 1994 to eighteen years in prison for murder, then pardoned in 1996, he was never innocent.
Le Monde with AFP
Sentenced twenty-eight years ago for the murder of Ghislaine Marchal, Omar Raddad wanted a new trial. After a first rejection twenty years ago, justice dismissed, Thursday, October 13, the second request for revision of the former Moroccan Gardener of nationality, learned the France-Presse (AFP) agency from a judicial source and to the parts.
The investigation committee of the Court of Revision declared the request inadmissible, said the family council of M me market.
Omar Raddad’s lawyer Sylvie Noachovitch, said she was “scandalized” by this decision. “I will never let go of Omar Raddad,” she said before the press, announcing that it “[would seize] the European Court of Human Rights”. “My determination is intact,” launched M me noachovitch, the serious air.
The ex-garden was sentenced in 1994 to eighteen years in criminal imprisonment, then pardoned in 1996 but not innocent. He had been appointed by the inscription “Omar killed me” – drawn with the blood of Ghislaine Marchal – discovered in a room in the basement of the Villa of the Victim, in Mougins (Alpes -Maritimes). A fault of conjugation that has placed the case among the most famous and controversial criminal files in France.
“New elements”
m. Raddad had filed a new request for revision of his trial on June 24, 2021, thirty years today after the discovery of the body of M me Marchal, widow Fortunée de Jean-Pierre Marchal, owner of a Automobile equipment business. His defense based his hopes on scientific progress in DNA, after the discovery of several genetic imprints on the crime scene, whose profile did not belong to Mr. Raddad.
An expert requested by M me noachovitch had considered that one of the unidentified male DNA could have been deposited during the facts and not during a subsequent “pollution”, in particular by an investigator . This expertise was part of one of the “new elements” presented by the defense of Mr. Raddad to the investigation committee and likely, according to her, to give birth to the guilt of the former gardener.
