Man is suspected of having committed five rapes on adolescent girls in Charente-Maritime and in the Paris region.
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Man is suspected by investigators to be “the predator of the woods”. A sixty-something man was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention Thursday, December 15, communicated a judicial source to the France-Presse agency (AFP). Aged sixty-two, it is suspected, of having kidnapped, kidnapped and violated, under the threat of a weapon, five adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 between December 4, 1998 and June 8, 2008 in Charente-Maritime and in the Paris region. Two of them were also stolen.
Man was identified and arrested in particular with the assistance of the FBI, the American investigative service, thanks to the genetic analysis carried out from sperm found on the five victims, explains a press release La Prosecurer de la République from Paris, Laure Beccuau.
The investigating judge of the Paris judicial court, in charge of investigations since 2016, “asked the American authorities on August 25, 2021 through an international rogatory commission for the purposes of genetic analysis”, details the prosecutor. “On October 24, 2022, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) rendered his report in which he managed to identify people who could be the ascendants of the fact of the facts”, specifies Ms. Beccuau.
It is this report, “as well as the investigations carried out from the elements collected at the time of the facts relating in particular to the description of the author and the vehicles used to transport the victims” which led “to the ‘Identification and the arrest of a 62-year-old man in Courtry (Seine-et-Marne), “said Ms. Beccuau.
police custody Tuesday
He was placed in police custody on Tuesday. A comparison of its DNA with the genetic profile of the suspect found on the victims concluded that a correspondence. During his police custody, the retired man, partly recognized the facts, according to a close source.
These are in particular “similarities in the operating mode (removal in an urbanized area, transport in a wooded area isolated under the threat of a weapon) and the discovery of common DNA, extract from sperm detected Of the five victims “who justified the junction, on June 8, 2016, of several judicial information open to these facts, specifies Ms. Beccuau.
The central office for the repression of violence for people (OCRVP), responsible for investigations, had launched in April 2019 a call for witness to find this suspect.