Dominique Pelicot, who drugged and violated his then wife, Gisèle, and recruited dozens of men to mistreat her for almost a decade, was questioned on two other attacks dating back to the 1990s.
The 72 -year -old Frenchman, who was imprisoned for 20 years in December, is the subject of an investigation for the alleged rape and the murder of the real estate agent Sophie Narme in Paris on December 4, 1991. He denied the offense .
Investigators also asked him about the attempted rape of another young real estate agent, known to the pseudonym Marion, in a suburb of the capital on May 11, 1999.
During his trial, Pelicot admitted this offense after evidence of DNA taken from the blood found on the Marion shoe were linked to him.
However, when he was asked about Sophie Narme during the same trial, he said that he had “nothing to do” with the murder.
Investigators previously highlighted similarities between the two cases.
In the murder of 1991, the victim was attacked by a man who used a false name to reserve a vision of an apartment. Detectives say Pelicot did the same in 1999.
The smell of anesthetic drug ether was detected by police on the 1991 crime scene. Police said they were also used in the 1999 attack, the victim of the victim.
The two cases were grouped in September 2022 and were studied by a team specializing in unresolved cases and series crimes.
Pelicot was placed under an official investigation in October 2022 for the two crimes.
THE Criminal case against Pelicot and the 49 other men The accused of having raped Gisèle lasted three months and was the biggest rape test in France.
As it ended, it had become a national figure and was met by crowds of hundreds of people singing his name outside the court.
His decision to make the public trial generated conversations renewed around rape, consent and gender violence in France.
