DNA Match Solves 11-Year-Old Marrakech Murder Case

At the time of the events, the services of the Marrakech police prefecture had discovered a lifeless, charred body. The suspect would have first seriously injured his 79-year-old victim, before setting fire to his home, indicates the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) in a press release. Having found no suspect at the time, the genetic fingerprints taken from the crime scene, different from those of the deceased, were nevertheless kept in the criminal database, available for the investigation, "pending possible comparisons and matches," reports the MAP.

It was finally in 2020 that genetic analyses and tests carried out confirmed the correspondence of the DNA of an individual arrested in Benguerir with those that were taken from the crime scene in Marrakech in 2009. The result of the tests carried out by the scientific police was confirmed by the investigations of the judicial police, the confessions of the suspect and the crime reconstruction operation.

Pending the investigations to determine the circumstances, the ins and outs of this criminal act 11 years old, the accused has been taken into custody.