Dominique Pelicot, the convicted rapist who horrified France by drugging his then wife so other men could rape her, was questioned on Thursday about other cases of rape and murder that he is suspected in.
Pelicot is serving a 20-year prison term after he was found guilty in December for the horrific sexual abuse of his now ex-wife, Gisele Pelicot.
His lawyer said he now faces renewed questioning by an investigating magistrate who specialises in so-called cold cases – those that have proved particularly hard to resolve.
The rape and murder cases date back to the 1990s. One involves Sophie Narme, a property agent who was killed in Paris on December 4, 1991. His lawyer, Beatrice Zavarro, said Dominique Pelicot denies any involvement in the killing.
The other is the attempted armed rape of another property agent in the Paris suburb of Villeparisis on May 11, 1999. In that case, Pelicot acknowledges that he met the woman and tried to undress her but denies attempted rape, his lawyer said.
Dominique Pelicot has been under formal investigation for both of those crimes since October 2022 – a legal status meaning that investigators believe there is an accumulation of serious evidence against him.
