The Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, asked the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) to establish why investigations were not launched in 2010 after the identification of Dominique Pelicot’s DNA in a case of rape attempted, according to a mission letter consulted on Friday May 2 by the France-Presse agency.
This mission, revealed by RTL and ordered Wednesday by the Keeper of the Seals at the IGJ, must establish “The reality or not of alleged dysfunctions”appeared at the time of the trial of Dominique Pelicot, which took place from September to December 2024 before the Criminal Court of Vaucluse. She must make her report by July 31.
Dominique Pelicot was sentenced, in December, to twenty years’ imprisonment for having drugged his wife, Gisèle, in order to violate her and deliver her to dozens of unngreen in Mazan, between 2011 and 2020. During the trial, it appeared that he had been arrested in 2010 in a shopping center filming under the skirts of women.
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His DNA was then taken. A few months later, he had “Being 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 did not give rise to any exploitation. It was not until January that Dominique Pelicot was indicted in these two cases by an investigating judge of the Nanterre Pole devoted to “Cold Cases”. He recognized the attempted rape but denied the murder in Paris.
