On February 2, 1994, the Alpes-Maritimes Assize Court found her Moroccan employee, Omar Raddad, guilty of the murder of Ghislaine Marchal. “The emotion is strong,” noted that day the legal columnist of Le Figaro, Pierre Bois.
The words drawn from the victim's blood "Omar killed me", the thesis of a judicial error ardently defended by the famous lawyer Jacques Vergès and the writer Jean-Marie-Rouard, the file concentrates all the ingredients of a resounding affair.