The French Dominic Pelicot, who was convicted by dozens of strangers in December for raping his then wife Gissle Pelicot, was questioned by an inquiry magistrate by an inquiry magistrate on Thursday, as well as a rape and murder, in the 1990s, in the 1990s, his lawyers , Said his lawyer.
Pelicott, 72, who was sentenced in 20 years in December, was questioned in Paris in 1991 and raped in the scene-at-marne area outside the capital in 1999, his lawyer Beatrice Zavaro said. ,
“Mr. Pelicot answered all the questions that he was asked, as he has always worked,” Zavaro said later.
He said that Dominic Pelicot was questioned before a unit in the Paris suburb of Nentare dedicated to “cold cases”, from October 2022 to October 2022.
He has denied participation in the 1991 rape and murder case, but accepted the rape attempt after being identified by his DNA in 1999.
These dates are well before the near -decade from 2011 to 2020, during which Pelicott invited dozens of strangers, whom he recruited online, his heavy -witted wife Giselle in a family house in Majan city of Southern France To rape.
Amidst these crimes, a gap of 20 years has feared that Pelicott could have done other tasks in the interim which has not come to light yet.
His ex-wife Giselle Pelicot has been honored as a hero for her courage and dignity in over-quarter-month testing, ending with all 51 defendants in December, including her ex-husband and the men she He convicted him for rape.
‘Ether small bottle’
During his test, Dominic Pelicot attempted rape in 1999.
“It was really me,” he said. “I removed her T-shirt, her shoes and her trousers but I did nothing.”
But he played a role in the murder and rape of Sophie Narm, a real estate agent killed in Paris in 1991.
“I have nothing to do with that case,” he said, despite the equality in two cases, young real estate agents with both victims were 23 years of age, who had a false name to see an apartment. Was visited by man.
Both women were removed from the same way.
A strong smell of ether – a historically used in surgery – was also noted at the crime site around the Sophie Narm, and in 1999 the substance was used to attack the young woman.
“I had a small bottle of ether in the car and a piece of string,” he said about the rape case during his test.
Asked why he ran away, he said: “I had a mental block, thinking that it could be my daughter,” he said.
Caroline Darian, the daughter of Pelicot, would have been in her early twenty -seventh condition at that time.
Darian, now 46, believes that she was raped and raped by Pelicot after seeing her unconscious body photos, she did not recognize while wearing underwear, her father was detailed for her crimes Closed in records.
He told the BBC this month that he should “die in jail” because he was “a dangerous man”.
14 of the 50 others decorated in December appealed.
Dominic Pelicot may thus be seen again in court, but as a witness, during an appeal test in front of a jury later this year, according to an prosecutor of the southern city of Nims.
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