Spain’s Supreme Court to Review 1991 Rape Conviction in Potential Wrongful Imprisonment Case

Identified by several victims as the perpetrator of a series of rapes in Tarragona, Barcelona and the province of Girona in 1991, the Moroccan had been wrongly convicted. More than thirty years later, the Supreme Court has agreed to reopen his case based on new evidence, reports El País.

The Supreme Court will examine Ahmed Tommouhi’s case on Wednesday to establish his innocence or not, based on the results of the analysis of the semen collected in one of the cases, the existence of which was revealed by the journalist Braulio García Jaén in his book (Justicia poética), and on the statement of Nuria, one of the rape victims, who admits to having been mistaken in identifying Tommouhi as the perpetrator of the rape in 1991, due to his striking resemblance to the real perpetrator.

Tommouhi was arrested only six months after his arrival in Spain at the age of 40. He spent several years in prison for crimes he did not commit. The Moroccan does not want to return to his country of origin until he is cleared by the Spanish justice system.