Confused more than 20 years after the fact, thanks to a candy wrapper… The trial of a man, who is appearing for the rape of a young woman in 1998, opened on Monday before the Vienne assizes in Poitiers.

André Basset, 69, was suspected in 2019 of this rape, committed on October 5, 1998 in Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-clochers (Vienne), on a young woman then aged 21.

The track of this suspect had been followed, following the collection of clues to a burglary committed in a carpentry in Vienne.

DNA traces that coincided with those of an unknown rapist

By exploiting the DNA traces taken from the scene, the gendarmes had noticed that one of them, discovered on a candy wrapper, coincided with the DNA of an unknown rapist appearing for more than twenty years in the base. data from the National Genetic Fingerprint File (FNAEG).

The suspicions of the investigators then fell on the sexagenarian, father of the operator of the robbed carpentry.

He had never been worried until his arrest.

In a few hours, the analysis of the DNA taken from the sexagenarian in police custody, had confirmed that it was indeed his which had been found in 1998.

Heard as a witness at the material time

Faced with these DNA comparisons, the man had recognized the rape, committed in the middle of the night, on a road in the north of the department.

The victim, a 21-year-old motorist, had to stop because logs had been placed across the road.

A man “whose face was concealed by a balaclava appeared.

He had tied her up.

She had been raped in the car.

The suspect then fled on foot,” the prosecution said.

At the material time, the man had been heard as a witness by the gendarmes of the Châtellerault gendarmerie research brigade because he was the neighbor of the victim.

He now faces fifteen years of criminal imprisonment.

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