An inspection of the justice ordered on “dysfunctions” around Affairs Dominique Pelicot

The Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, wants to know why investigations had not been launched in 2010 after the identification of his DNA in a case of attempted rape.

Justice will have to explain it. Gérald Darmanin asked the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) to establish why investigations had not been launched in 2010 after the identification of Dominique Pelicot’s DNA in a rape attempted case, according to a mission letter consulted on Friday May 2 by AFP.

This mission, revealed by RTL and ordered Wednesday by the Keeper of the Seals at the IGJ, must in particular establish “The reality or not of alleged dysfunctions”appeared at the time of the Mazan rape trial, which took place from September to December 2024 before the Vaucluse criminal court. She is to make her report by July 31.

Sentenced in December to 20 years in criminal imprisonment for having drugged his wife Gisèle in order to rape her and deliver her to dozens of strangers, between 2011 and 2020, Dominique Pelicot is implicated in other cases. In 2010, he was arrested in a shopping center filming under the skirts of women. His DNA was then taken.

A few months later, he had “is the subject of a rapprochement with an ‘unknown’ trace taken from a previous procedure, open following an attempted rape committed in Villeparisis on May 11, 1999”as well as with another procedure, for murder with rape in Paris in 1991, recalls the mission letter. However, these rapprochements then gave rise to any exploitation. Dominique Pelicot was indicted in October 2022 in these two cases by an investigating judge of the “Cold Cases” pole in Nanterre. He recognized the attempted rape but denied the murder in Paris.

“The information dates from October 2022 and had already been relayed. At the time, no one – not even the Minister of Justice – had not been moved! I even pleaded it before the Criminal Court of Vaucluse, in November …”reacts to Franceinfo the lawyer for Dominique Pelicot. Béatrice Zavarro deplores that“It is necessary to wait until May 2025 for the event to have a judicial mediatic significance” and questions the possibility of “Make justice calmly in such a context”.