Overview

• The newly appointed investigating judge has spent a year immersed in decades-old documents and reopened key archives
• Bachir Ben Barka was heard for two hours as a civil party in Paris, highlighting the family’s active role in the probe
• Two of five arrest warrants issued in 2007 still target living suspects: General Hosni Benslimane and Miloud Tounsi
• Requests to declassify additional DGSE and foreign service files remain ongoing as French and Moroccan authorities delay cooperation
• Since 1975 the investigation has been France’s longest-running judicial probe, driven by enduring questions over Ben Barka’s fate