Storms and floods in Reims, new rebound for Omar Raddad and the Troadec case on trial



Reims has its feet in the water for the 3rd time in … two weeks! – FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP

This is the third time in two weeks that Reims has had its feet in the water. Thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rains caused flooding on Monday evening in the most populous city of the department of Marne, but also in several municipalities of the Somme. In Reims, a “stationary thunderstorm”, located above the center and to the east of the agglomeration, hit around 7 pm. The precipitation reached “50 mm in two hours,” said the prefecture. At 8:30 p.m. 900 households were without electricity but the situation was resolved in the evening, the prefecture not counting more than 30 shortly after 10 p.m. At around 11:30 p.m., the authorities counted 70 interventions by firefighters and around 20 still in progress.

The defense of Omar Raddad, a Moroccan gardener convicted of the murder of Ghislaine Marchal in 1991 in Mougins, will file a new request for review of his trial on Thursday on the basis of new analyzes of the DNA traces discovered in 2015, she said. announced Monday in a press release. In November 2015, four DNA prints corresponding to four unidentified men, two perfectly exploitable fingerprints and two others partially, had been found on two doors and a chevron which were on the scene of the crime. On these two doors had been written “Omar killed me” (sic) and “Omar was me”, with the blood of the victim.


It is an extraordinary trial which begins this Tuesday, for about twenty days, before the Loire-Atlantique Assize Court. That of Hubert Caouissin, 50, former boilermaker of the arsenal of Brest, tried for having killed, in February 2017 in Orvault near Nantes, Pascal and Brigitte Troadec, as well as their two children, then having dismembered and dispersed the bodies . His companion, Lydie Troadec, 52, sister of Pascal Troadec, is also appearing for “concealment of a corpse” and “modification of the scene of a crime”.



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