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DNA Match From 2002 Isère Killing Leads to Arrest and Pretrial Detention

A cold-case re-examination of a preserved cigarette butt linked the slaying to a man listed in the national DNA database.

L’analyse du mégot retrouvé sur la scène de crime n’avait rien donné jusqu’ici. (Image d’illustration)
Un homme de 50 ans a été mis en examen et écroué pour un meurtre commis en 2002 à Seyssuel, en Isère, a indiqué le parquet de Nanterre

Overview

  • Fulvio Petrozzi, 60, was shot in the back with a shotgun outside his home in Seyssuel in February 2002.
  • The Nanterre cold-cases unit ordered new testing of DNA on a cigarette butt kept from the scene, producing a hit in the FNAEG for a 50-year-old man.
  • Gendarmes from the Grenoble research section arrested the suspect in Décines-Charpieu on December 4 and placed him in custody.
  • He was placed under formal investigation on December 9 and remanded to pretrial detention, according to judicial sources cited by French media.
  • During questioning he denied the killing, offered unusual explanations for his DNA at the scene, and is known only for minor prior offenses.