French Rapist Pelicot Now Linked to 1990s Suspicious Deaths

Frenchman Dominique Pelicot, convicted in December for organizing the rape of his then wife Gisele Pelicot by dozens of strangers, was being questioned on Thursday by an investigating magistrate over an attempted rape, as well as a rape and murder, in the 1990s, his lawyer said.

- Agence France-Presse

PARIS:

Pelicot, 72, who was sentenced in December to 20 years for aggravated rape, is being questioned over a rape and murder in Paris in 1991 and an attempted rape in the Seine-et-Marne region outside the capital in 1999, his lawyer Beatrice Zavarro said.

She said the investigation, being handled by a unit in the Paris suburb of Nanterre dedicated to "cold cases," had been going on since October 2022 and Dominique Pelicot had already been interrogated in October 2023. He has denied involvement in the 1991 rape and murder case but has admitted to the 1999 attempted rape after he was identified by his DNA.