A decision is expected on October 13

The investigative committee tasked with examining a request to review the trial of former Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad, who was sentenced in 1994 to 18 years in prison for the murder of Ghislaine Marshall, will issue its decision on October 13th.

The committee met, Thursday, in Paris, to examine the request for review submitted by Omar Raddad’s lawyer, in one of the most famous criminal cases in France. Après près de deux heures d’échanges à huis clos avec son avocate, Sylvie Noachovitch, qui plaidait à nouveau dans cette procédure lancée en juin 2021, les magistrats instructeurs on public entamé du ren du sédé le libé Month.

Me Noachovitch wrote on Twitter: “The investigative committee will make its decision on October 13, and in particular will decide on my requests for expertise by a specialized laboratory capable of making genetic robotic images and conducting research on relatives.”

In October, the Instruction Court will decide whether or not to approve the new requests for expertise and hearings requested by the former Moroccan gardener’s lawyer, and depending on the results obtained, the review court may be entering the file.

“I am pleased that the attorney general has joined us at our request to outsource DNA analyzes to a laboratory that specializes in genetic and kinship imagery robots,” Anna Nawachovich said at the exit of the Court of Cassation, citing the media.
After Omar al-Raddad was pardoned, but not acquitted, he is still claiming his innocence and awaiting justice.

After he did not stop denying his involvement in this murder, Omar Raddad and his defense doubled the legal battles in order to establish the truth once and for all, in a case that has seen new twists in recent months.
On December 16, the French justice decided to reopen the file, 27 years after the conviction of the former Moroccan gardener.

It ordered additional information, a first step towards a possible review of the trial, after the defense, relying on a report revealed by the press, six months ago, submitted a request to review the trial, an exceptional procedure in France.

The report, which was prepared by a private expert in 2019, concluded that there are about thirty complete traces of male DNA that do not belong to the gardener, and were found in one of the famous inscriptions made with the blood of the victim, called Omar. Radd is like a killer.

Expert Laurent Breno, who analyzed 35 traces of one of the DNA found in the famous inscription “Omar killed me,” prefers in his report the hypothesis of depositing fingerprints at the time of the facts, and not later. “Contamination” by investigators.

In other words, these genetic traces could have been deposited by the inscription’s author, who would then no longer be Mrs. Marshall but likely the real killer, according to Me Sylvie Noachovitch.

If Mr. Raddad’s defense has so far relied on the progress of science in the field of DNA to prove his client’s innocence, it is now based on a new element revealed in a recent book titled ‘Ministry of Injustice’, whose authors have investigated behind the scenes the biggest cases of years. last in France.

The book evokes the “hidden path”, which revealed an investigation conducted between 2002 and 2004 by gendarmes distinct from those who conducted the initial investigation and which would have probably exonerated the former Moroccan gardener, but mysteriously stalled.
The book mentions untapped leadership, with potentially disastrous consequences.

Between 2002 and 2004, the gendarmerie conducted an investigation regarding the prosecutor in Grasse, based on the testimony of a source (certainly reliable) who said that he had been tortured to find out Omar Al-Raddad as a convict.

Accordingly, the murder of Gislan Marshall was in fact the result of a wrongful robbery, while the record of this action clearly raises the possibility of acquittal of Omar Raddad.

Two brothers, one of whom is detained in another case for attempted murder, were identified as suspects, but, according to the authors of the book, the investigators’ requests were not answered, and the file was strangely closed, according to the French. Adding that the book also raises “pressure”, especially by a gendarmerie general, to close the procedure.

Omar Raddad was sentenced in 1994 to 18 years in prison, and he had benefited from a partial pardon from President Jacques Chirac, and then from a conditional release in 1998. But this pardon did not invalidate the conviction and did not acquit the Moroccan gardener.
Without the possibility of appeal at the time, he had spent a total of more than seven years in prison.