France reopens notorious 1994 murder case that hinged on message written in blood — with a glaring grammatical mistake
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A Moroccan gardener convicted of murdering a French heiress three decades ago has won his bid to reopen one of the country's most notorious criminal cases and try to clear his name, his lawyer said Thursday.
Omar Raddad was sentenced to 18 years in jail in 1994 despite his claim of innocence in the killing of Ghislaine Marchal at her villa on the French Riviera.
At the scene of the grisly stabbing death, police found a message scrawled on a door in Marchal's blood which read "Omar killed me," which prosecutors seized on to secure Raddad's guilty verdict.
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