Ex-man from Gisèle Pelicot: Arrested for rape and drug cases

Ex-man from Gisèle Pelicot: Arrested for rape and drug cases

Dominique Pélicot, the convicted rapist, shocked France by stunning his wife at the time with drugs so that other men could rape her, asked other questions about other rape and murder cases on Thursday.

background of the case

Pélicot is currently serving a 20-year sentence after he was convicted of the cruel sexual abuse of his now divorced wife Gisèle Pélicot in December. His lawyer confirmed to the Associated Press that Pélicot is now asked again by an investigative judge who specializes in so -called cold cases - so cases that are particularly difficult to solve.

unexplained crimes from the 90s

The rape and murder cases go back to the 1990s. One of these cases concerns Sophie Narmia, a real estate agent who was murdered in Paris on December 4, 1991. Pélco's lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, explained that Dominique Pélicot denies every connection to this murder.

The second case concerns the attempted assault on another real estate agent in the Paris Villa Parisis on May 11, 1999. Pélicot admits that he has hit the woman and tried to take her off, but denies the attempt to rape, according to his lawyer.

determination and legal status

Dominique Pélicot has been under formal examination since October 2022 because of both crimes - a legal status that means that the investigators are convinced of a collection of serious evidence against him.

The lawyer Florence Rauch, who the family of nörm and the woman who became the victim of the attempt to attack, represented a number of similarities between the cases of 1991 and 1999, which could indicate that the perpetrator could be the same in both cases.

similarities and investigations

"You have to remain careful. Maybe someone else committed the crime of Sophie nurms. But the similarities in the Operandi modus, in the way the victims were addressed-and the victims are so identical that one can legally ask many questions," said Rault in RTL radio.

The two cases were summarized in September 2022 for an examination that was taken over by the specialized unit for cold cases and series crimes. This unit is based in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.

collaboration with the investigators

on the way to Pélco's hearing with the investigating judge in the Nanterre cold case department, Zavarro said that he plans to cooperate, but did not know what questions he would face. She noticed that he had already been interviewed in October 2023 and stated that he had been in contact with the real estate agent in the case of 1999, but not with Sophie Narmhe

"He says that he is completely unsound with the events related to Sophie nurse," said Zavarro. "He always said that he never hit Sophie nurms."

DNA evidence and confessions

Zavarro reported that Dominique Pélicot admitted to the investigators that he met the other real estate agent. The police found traces of his DNA at the crime scene where the two met.

"He admitted that he was in contact with this young woman. His DNA is there, so there is no problem with it. He admitted to conflict with her and tried to take her off, but with others intentions than an attempted rape," she said.

long -term abuse cases

The rape and murder cases were more than ten years before the drug attacks and rapes to Gisèle Pélicot, for which Pélicot and 50 other men were condemned- an almost a decade of sexual abuse since 2011. He has made them out of doping with drugs and drinks and other men that he had got to know online, they have got to know them, to rape.

Gisèle Pélicot became all over France and beyond for their courage to ask for a public court hearing against the men, to the heroine.

The evidence included shocking, homemade videos of abuse, the Dominique Pélicot in the couple's retirement home in the small town of Mazan in Provence and elsewhere. The police finally found more than 20,000 photos and videos stored on computer drives and were cataloged in folders with the names "abuse", "their rapists", "night" and other titles.