Overview

• Dominique Pelicot, 72, is currently serving a 20-year sentence for drugging, raping, and facilitating the rape of his ex-wife over a decade.
• He is being questioned on January 30 by the cold case unit in Nanterre regarding two unresolved crimes from the 1990s in the Paris region.
• The cases involve the 1991 murder of a 23-year-old real estate agent, Sophie Narme, and a 1999 attempted rape of another real estate agent in Villeparisis.
• DNA evidence from the 1999 attempted rape scene was linked to Pelicot during investigations into his other crimes, leading to his indictment in 2022.
• Pelicot has denied involvement in the murder and retracted initial admissions regarding the 1999 attempted rape, complicating the investigations.