PARIS, Jan 31 — Frenchman Dominique Pelicot, convicted in December for organising the rape of his then-wife Gisele Pelicot by dozens of strangers, was questioned yesterday by an...
Beatrice Zavarro, lawyer of Dominique Pelicot , speaks to the press ahead of her client's hearing at the judicial centre dedicated to cold cases at the Nanterre courthouse. — Pic by AFP,as a first-time user .
She said the investigation, being handled by a unit in the Paris suburb of Nanterre dedicated to “cold cases”, had been underway since October 2022 and Dominique Pelicot had already been interrogated in October 2023. The 20-year gap between these crimes has sparked fears that Pelicot could have committed other acts in the interim that have not yet come to light.
“I have nothing to do with that case,” he said, despite the similarities in the two cases, with both the victims young real estate agents aged 23, who were visited by a man under a false name to view an apartment.A strong smell of ether — an anaesthetic historically used in surgery — was also noted at the crime scene around Sophie Narme, and the substance had been used to attack the young woman in 1999.
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