French wife rapist linked to cold rape and murder cases

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French wife ******* linked to cold ***** and ******* cases

Dominique Pélicot, the convicted ******* who horrified France by drugging his then wife so other men could ***** her, has been questioned about other cases of ***** and ******* that he’s suspected in.

Pélicot is serving a 20-year prison term after he was found guilty in December for the horrific ******* abuse of his now ex-wife, Gisèle Pélicot.

His lawyer told The Associated Press that he now faces renewed questioning by an investigating magistrate who specialises in so-called cold cases — those that have proved particularly hard to resolve.

The ***** and ******* cases date back to the 1990s. One involves Sophie Narme, a property agent who was killed in Paris on December 4, 1991. His lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, said Dominique Pélicot denies any involvement in the killing.

The other is the attempted armed ***** of another property agent in the Paris suburb of Villeparisis on May 11, 1999. In that case, Pélicot acknowledges that he met the woman and tried to undress her but denies attempted *****, his lawyer said.

Dominique Pélicot has been under formal investigation for both of those crimes since October 2022 — a legal status meaning that investigators believe there is an accumulation of serious evidence against him.

Victims’ lawyer says cases tied in multiple ways

Lawyer Florence Rault, who represents Narme’s family and the woman subjected to the ***** attempt, said an array of similarities between the 1991 and 1999 cases suggested the perpetrator might be the same in both.

“One has to remain cautious. Perhaps someone else committed the crime on Sophie Narme. But there are such similarities in the mode of operation, in the way the victims were approached — and the victims are so identical, too — that one can legitimately ask many questions,” Rault said on RTL radio.

The two cases were grouped together into one investigation in September 2022 that was taken over by the specialised unit for cold cases and serial crimes. It works out of the Paris suburb of Nanterre.

Pélicot’s lawyer says Pelicot says he never met Narme, but has acknowledged to investigators that he met the other property agent. The lawyer said police found traces of his DNA at the scene of their meeting.

“He acknowledged having been in contact with this young woman. His DNA is there, so there’s no issue there. He acknowledged having had an altercation with her, having tried to undress her, but with intentions different from attempted *****,” she said.

The ***** and ******* cases occurred more than 10 years before the drugging and rapes of Gisèle Pélicot for which Pélicot and 50 other men were convicted — a nearly decade-long stretch of ******* abuse from 2011. He knocked her unconscious by lacing her food and drink with drugs and invited other men he met online to ***** her.

Gisèle Pelicot became a hero to many in France and beyond for courageously demanding that the men’s trial be held in open court.

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