This Thursday, January 30, Dominique Pelicot is heard by an investigating judge of the “Cold Cases” pole of the Nanterre judicial court on two cases in which he is indicted for attempted rape, rape and murder.
Dominique Pélicot has taken it to other women in addition to his wife Gisèle Pelicot? Definitely sentenced to 20 years in prison during the Mazan rape trial, the 72 -year -old man is indicted in two other cases whose facts date back to the 1990s. He also left his cell this Thursday, January 30 Being questioned about these two unsolved cases after a summons from investigating judge Nathalie Truquey, in charge of the “Cold Cases” pole of the Nanterre court, as revealed BFMTV.
The media coverage of the Mazan rape affair allowed justice to make the link between Dominique Pélicot and two other cases: the rape and murder of Sophie Narme in 1991 and an attempted rape in 1999. In this second case, It was DNA that made it possible to confuse the septuagenarian: the man’s genetic code showed correspondence with the blood found on the scene of the crime. Confronted with this element and placed in police custody in 2022, Dominique Pélicot then confessed the attempted rape on a young real estate agent. But he then returned to his confessions in October 2023 during a second interrogation.
The interrogation of this January 30 must make it possible to question the suspect again on these two cases and to clarify his confessions and his denials. Currently, Dominique Pelicot has the same speech as in 2023, he said he wanted to see the victim’s underwear, who was struggling. A justification that echoes how the Mazan affair is bursting: a security guard had surprised Dominique Pelicot filming under the skirt of a client in a supermarket.
Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer said her client’s position on Bfmtv : “He explains that it was present, that there was a scuffle with the young woman, that there was an attempted undressing, but he is on another motivation than an attempted rape”. Dominique Pélicot also camps his position concerning the first case in which he denies any involvement.
Two rape cases on young real estate agents
The 1999 rape attempt is the first case in which Dominique Pelicot was suspected and indicted, in parallel with Mazan’s rapes. According to the facts, a 19-year-old real estate agent was assaulted as she visited an apartment in Villeparisis, Seine-et-Marne, to a man suspected of being Dominique Pelicot. He would have knocked out with ether and threatened with a cutter blade under the neck, before undressing it. The young woman, still numb, would have succeeded in defending herself by grasping the testicles of the aggressor, thus leaving him enough time to lock herself in a cupboard. The alleged victim claims to stay 4 hours there, while man left, leaving behind drops of his blood. Of the Sanf whose DNA presented correspondence with that of Dominique Pelicot, which was taken during its arrest for the Mazan rape affair.
The other case is even older, it dates from 1991. These are similarities in operating modes between the 1999 rape attempt and the murder of Sophie Narme justified the indictment of Dominique Pelicot. The story begins when the body of the young real estate agent of 23 years is discovered on Wednesday December 4, 1991 by her boss, in Paris. He went to the apartment she was visiting before disappearing. “I was immediately seized by a strong odor, as in a hospital, most likely ether,” he said to the police. This chemical submission mode is what allowed investigators to bring together Dominique Pelicot. The young woman would have been raped before being killed. She was half -naked, with a tight belt around her neck. Dominique Pelicot denies any involvement in this case.
Accused in a third case
In addition to these two “Cold Cases”, Dominique Pelicot is accused of attempted rape on a minor. The facts occurred in 1995, according to the alleged victim. Aged 12 at the time of the facts, she would have met a man, whom she identified as Dominique Pelicot, while he pretended to be an electrician to enter his Parisian home. According to information from M6 Info, he tried to use ether to put the teenager to sleep. It was the arrival of his mother in the apartment that made him flee. A complaint was filed by the girl in the wake of the facts, but the attacker was never found. It was on hearing about the Mazan rape affair that the alleged victim would have recognized the attacker. She presented herself last December to the Parisian judicial police to accuse Dominique Pelicot of this attempted rape on a minor.