Overview
- Police arrested R. M. S. on suspicion of a violent robbery and a sexual assault that took place at the end of May and a court ordered his provisional imprisonment without bail.
- Investigators linked three separate May attacks by the same modus operandi and matched that pattern to files from a 2003 series of rapes for which he was convicted.
- Identification relied on a positive facial recognition match and clothing seized in a home search, and officers located him when he was about to take a prison leave at a social‑integration center.
- Authorities credited the speed of the probe and urged calm, and they are examining whether his third‑degree prison status and temporary permits were used to commit the alleged new offenses.
- The suspect served more than 23 years for 15 rapes in 2003, and the case is likely to prompt closer scrutiny of leave policies and supervision for prisoners in rehabilitation regimes.