“Ruart did not defend me, he defended justice, he defended France. » If I take the liberty of expressing this opinion, which Omar Ruddad confided to the paper, it is not to give me self-satisfaction, but because it perfectly expresses the meaning of twenty-eight years’ struggle with astonishing truth. In truth, to answer those who might have believed that I had enlisted in this cause to increase my literary range, by giving me the air of Zola, which I originally desired with all my heart, is this; does not exist.
Because it should never have existed. From the arrest of Omar Ruddad in June 1991, nothing, absolutely nothing, except the famous inscription: “ The lobster killed me “, was not the slightest proof of his guilt. But this allegation in blood letters was enough for any sane soul with an iota of common sense to realize that the victim, Ghislaine Marshall, was physically unable to trace it…
Source: Le Figaro
