justice decides to reopen the case

Omar Raddad has been fighting for decades to demand a review of his trial in connection with the murder of his boss on June 24, 1991. Twenty-seven years after being sentenced to eighteen years in prison for the murder of Ghislaine Marchal, then pardoned by Jacques Chirac, Omar Raddad has just won his case and will see his case opened again by the courts. “This is one of the biggest mistakes of the twentieth century, which we are going to rectify thanks to the court of revision”, says the gardener’s lawyer, Maître Sylvia Noachovitch.

At the request of Omar Raddad and his lawyer, new DNA expertise is being carried out. “The family of Ghislaine Marchal wants its investigations to put a definitive end to this painfully experienced affair”, declares the lawyer of the family of Ghislaine Marchal. When the wealthy landlady was found dead thirty years ago, the bloody message “Omar killed me” sowed doubt.