Overview
- The officer, arrested on January 13, confessed during custody to six offenses after initially denying involvement.
- He acknowledged the January 31, 2025 abduction and rape in Nersac and five attempted abductions between November 19, 2025 and January 5, 2026 across Nersac, Saint-Michel, Angoulême and Gond-Pontouvre.
- Investigators linked his DNA from the 2025 rape to the suspect, with phone data and video placing his vehicle at each of the five recent attempts.
- A precise account from a 60-year-old victim on January 6 helped connect the recent incidents, whose victims were women aged 18 to 61 who escaped.
- An information judiciaire has been opened on charges including attempted abduction, abduction, sequestration, sexual assault with a weapon and rape with a weapon, and pretrial detention has been requested; the suspect is a technical trainer with access to service weapons.