DOMINIQUE Pelicot – the “Beast of Avignon” – has denied drugging and murdering an estate agent in a crime he is linked to by DNA.
But France’s most infamous rapist did admit to being at the scene where another woman claims he tried to rape her.
Dominique Pélicot, 72, drugged and raped his wife Gisèle for years
AFPA sketch of Dominique in court[/caption]
Sophie Narme, 23, was raped and murdered in 1991
AFPDominique’s wife, Gisèle Pelicot, was drugged and raped by her husband and many other men for years[/caption]
Dominique, 72, was dragged from solitary confinement to face a four-hour grilling by magistrates about two notorious cold cases from the 1990s.
Fresh murder and rape allegations surfaced after his DNA data linked him to two crime scenes – but Dominique denies them.
One was the horrifying murder of Sophie Narme, a 23-year-old estate agent, who died in Paris in 1991.
When she met with a client to show him apartment was gagged, drugged raped and murdered in a struggle so brutal her rings came off.
About Sophie’s murder, the sick serial rapist declared: “I have nothing to do with this affair.”
The other was the attempted rape of another estate agent called Marion, who was attacked when she was just 18 in the same area in 1999.
Marion claims she was showing him round a flat when tried to knock her out with chemicals and rape her.
Beatrice Zavarro, Dominique’s lawyer, said the monster admits to meeting Marion and trying to undress her but denies attempted rape.
After Thursday’s question the lawyer said: “With regard to Marion, he effectively denies any attempted rape, explaining that he was there, and that there was a scuffle.
“If a scuffle took place, he had no intention of raping this young woman.”
Beatrice added: “He answered all the questions – cooperating like he always does.”
There are lots of similarities between the two attacks, which Dominique’s lawyer acknowledged.
The crimes were linked by special cold-case investigators in September 2022 – and Dominique officially became a suspect in October that year.
In both cases, the victims were young real estate agents who were visited by a man under a false name to view a flat.
Chemicals were used to sedate the two women before they were attacked – which is how Dominique managed the serial rape of his wife for years.
The two women were also undressed in the same way, and a strong smell of ether – an anaesthetic – was noticed at the crime scenes.
Both attacks happened close to where Pelicot was living with his wife and three children at the time.
His DNA was put on a national database following his arrest over the crimes against his wife, which led to him being linked with both these unsolved crimes.
Dominique has spent the past month rotting in solitary confinement after being found guilty of the aggravated rape of his ex-wife, Gisele Pelicot.
He drugged Gisele for almost a decade and allowed over 50 men he found on the internet to rape and sexually abuse her against her will.
The case against Pelicot and the 49 other men accused of raping Gisèle shocked France for its three-month duration and was the country’s largest ever rape trial.
He is currently locked away in a high security prison close to the southern city of Avignon.
Dominique Pelicot has denied drugging and murdering an estate agent
Gisèle Pelicot speaking to press after her ex-husband’s sentencing
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