He was well known to the police. Arrested this Thursday, the man suspected of the murder of a 15-year-old teenager in Nantes has already been convicted of rape in 2005, report our colleagues from France Bleu Loire Océan, this Saturday, a source close to the case.
On August 20, the body of a 15-year-old teenager was discovered by firefighters in the attic of an unoccupied house under construction in Nantes, where they were intervening to extinguish a fire.
A release in 2015
A 46-year-old man was arrested and taken into police custody a week after the incident, his DNA having been found on the victim's bra, the Nantes prosecutor's office said Thursday. The suspect was registered in the file of sex offenders, a police source told Franceinfo. According to information from France Bleu Loire Océan, the man was sentenced in 2005 to 18 years in prison for rape, before being released in 2015.
“In the early 2000s, this man attacked 13 victims with, each time, the same scenario: he was waiting for the victim in the street, he asked him to help him bring a package to an apartment where he abused her ”, tell our colleagues.
The hypothesis of death by strangulation
According to the first elements of the investigation, the young girl, who lived about 200 meters away, left her home around 4 p.m. to pick up a package. Her mother was worried around 5 p.m., not seeing her return. The body was discovered less than an hour later.
“The crime was therefore committed in a short time. And the fire was undoubtedly intended to hide traces, "said Olivier Bonhomme, adding that" the hypothesis of death by strangulation seems the most likely. An investigation for intentional homicide was entrusted to the criminal brigade of the judicial police antenna.
Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous
Ain: A call for witnesses launched four years after the rape of a 12-year-old girl
- Rape
- Investigation
- Fire
- Teenager
- Miscellaneous
- Nantes
- Justice