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Jean-Marie Rouart, writer, academician, friend of Omar Raddad

2021-12-19T18:36:07.609Z


INVESTIGATION - This is one of the fights of his life: since the beginning of the "affair", the former journalist from Le Figaro has stood alongside the Moroccan gardener, convicted in 1994 for the murder of Ghislaine Marchal, then pardoned in 1996 Today, the man of letters wants to believe in the revision of the trial.


"An immense joy, an immense hope."

Sylvie Noachovitch, in front of the stairs of the courthouse in Paris, does not frown. This Thursday, December 16, the impetuous lawyer has just obtained what she considers to be a success for her client, Omar Raddad. For the first time in thirty years of proceedings, justice has just ordered additional information: it will carry out new investigations, which could lead to a review of the trial. Accused of the murder of Ghislaine Marchal in 1991, still guilty for the institutions, pardoned by Jacques Chirac in 1996, the Moroccan gardener is not there this Thursday. In addition to Me Noachovitch, it is an academician who represents him in front of the cameras and the microphones. Questioned, Jean-Marie Rouart gets angry, moves, presents in detail the DNA analyzes which, he hopes, could make it possible to exonerate his

"Friend"

Omar.

He too has been fighting for thirty years.

At the end of June 1991, the writer and collaborator of

Le Figaro

was in Corsica to…

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Source: lefigaro

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