'Beast of Avignon' Dominique Pelicot dragged from prison to face questions over murder
'Beast of Avignon' Dominique Pelicot dragged from prison to face questions over murder
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France’s most notorious serial-rapist was today summoned for questioning over an unsolved murder and another rape. Dominique Pelicot, 72, was on Wednesday told he would be travelling to Paris on Thursday to take part in an enquiry being led by specialist ‘cold case’ magistrates. It follows the retired electrician and estate agent being sentenced to 20 years in prison for the aggravated rape of his ex-wife, Gisele Pelicot, also 72. He drugged her over a period of almost a decade, and allowed scores of men he met on the internet to rape and otherwise sexually abuse her.
Pelicot is currently in solitary confinement in a high security prison close to the southern city of Avignon, where he was convicted last month. An investigating source in Paris told the BFM news channel: "Dominique Pelicot has been summoned for questioning this Thursday, January 30, by the cold case unit of the Nanterre Judicial Court. He will therefore be taken from his cell in the detention centre where he is serving a 20-year sentence for the aggravated rapes committed on his ex-wife Gisele Pelicot.".
Pelicot will specifically be questioned at length about the rape and murder of Sophie Narme, a 23-year-old estate agent, who died in 1991 in greater Paris. And he will also be asked about the attempted rape of another estate agent identified only as Marion, 18, who was attacked in the same area in 1999.
Both attacks happened close to where Pelicot was living with his wife and three children at the time. His DNA was put on a national database following his arrest over the crimes involving his wife, and this has led to him being linked with both the Narme and Marion case.
