The former gardener, condemned and then pardoned for the murder of Ghislaine Marchal in Mougins on June 23, 1991, hoped to obtain a new trial.
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Omar Raddad did not go to the Paris courthouse to hear the decision concerning the murder of Ghislaine Marchal, of which he has been found guilty for more than thirty years. It was her lawyer, Maître Sylvie Noachovitch, who called her client in front of a cloud of microphones and cameras to announce the rejection of his second revision request.
“The investigating committee did not follow the conclusions of the Advocate General so we will seize the European Court of Human Rights and know that lawyers have already made this appeal and have won the case So anyway we will go to the end and I will launch this procedure today. You can count on me, “she promised the former gardener, condemned, pardoned, but not innocent of a homicide that he never recognized.
On June 24, 2021, the 60 -year -old man and his council deposited elements which they considered likely to tip the file. First there is DNA, the only proof capable of holding in front of the Assizes as part of such an old facts. A private report – written in 2019 by Laurent Breniaux, a specialist in genetic analyzes, based on the expertise commanded by justice to Doctor Olivier Pascal in 2015 – indicates that an unknown male genetic imprint is present at around thirty times in the Track of the letters of “Omar t me t”.
“The location of this genetic imprint, its omnipresence only at the level of writing areas, and more precisely at the level of bloody letters, question the activity which has been able to lead to its presence, is specified. The Pollution hypotheses and contamination of the sealed by an external speaker become unlikely while hypotheses of direct or indirect primary transfer at the time of the facts become more and more. “
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This DNA appears in particular at the end of the letters, as if the person who had written had no blood on the fingers and had deposited his epithelial cells. In other words, these genetic traces could have been deposited by the author of the inscription, who would not then be the victim, Ghislaine Marchal, but potentially the real murderer, developed the defense of Omar Raddad. Especially since the DNA of the old gardener has never been found on the crime scene.
In its decision, the investigating committee has not found these convincing conclusions, considering in particular that “the discovery of new footprints is not enough, in itself, to establish their relationship with the facts, these traces having been able to be left previously or after murder “. Without the possibility of dating the deposit of these genetic traces, their direct link with the crime cannot be established.
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