Omar Radda (Yann Caradec, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Omar Radda (Yann Caradec, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Omar Raddad : The track voluntarily discarded

Is the greatest judicial scandal of the 20ᵉ century on its way to being solved? That is what the lawyers of the Moroccan gardener want, as they point to new DNA traces and a mysteriously abandoned investigation. “We have the names, what are we waiting for to compare the DNA, asks former magistrate Georges Fenech. We can’t leave it at that”.

Brétigny accident (Poudou99, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Brétigny accident (Poudou99, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Brétigny : an unpredictable but probable accident

On April 25, the trial of the “Brétigny disaster” will begin. The SNCF, SNCF Réseau and an SNCF executive will appear before the Evry-Courcouronnes criminal court (Essonne) for involuntary manslaughter and involuntary injury. The State, which bears a crushing responsibility in this accident, does not seem to be among the accused.