Overview
- The Parquet de Nanterre confirmed to AFP that it has launched a parcours criminel concerning Dominique Pelicot, following initial reporting by RTL.
- Investigators will retrace Pelicot’s residences, movements and contacts to identify potential links to unsolved crimes.
- A juge d’instruction has been assigned to examine his history up to his 2020 arrest, according to TF1’s police-justice desk.
- Pelicot is under formal judicial investigation for a rape followed by murder in 1991 and for a rape in 1999, and he was sentenced in 2024 to 20 years in the Mazan rapes case.
- TF1 reports the cold-case office also opened a parallel review for François Vérove and now has 15 such “parcours criminels” in progress.