Overview
- A 28-year-old man was taken into custody in Indre-et-Loire under a cold-case judge’s warrant, prosecutors confirmed.
- He is being questioned on suspicion of "attempted murder preceded, followed or accompanied by another crime" and rape, offenses punishable by life imprisonment.
- Investigators, working with U.S. authorities including the FBI, used genetic genealogy to trace relatives from private databases and identify a candidate suspect.
- The man was 17 at the time of the assault on a 25-year-old jogger in Poitiers, where a clear male DNA trace had not matched the French FNAEG.
- His DNA will now be compared with the 2015 sample as judicial inquiries continue and he remains presumed innocent.