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52-year-old Italian

was arrested on October 16 in eastern France, under a European arrest warrant issued by Germany, where he is

suspected of 160 rapes and sexual assaults against minors

, police told AFP on Friday.

Cosimo Chionna

was arrested in the town of Rumersheim-Le-Haut, near Strasbourg, and is suspected of

having raped or sexually abused his daughter and the daughters of his romantic partners, between 2000 and 2014

.

Germany opened 122 court cases against him, according to the National Fugitive Search Brigade, which explained that the man recently fled Germany to settle in France.

According to the French police,

Chionna raped her daughter since 2000 and for a decade

.

At the same time, he would also have sexually abused the minor daughters of a girlfriend.

"He worked in various family nuclei,"

said police sources.

On October 7, the French police received an alert from Germany about the presence of the suspect in their territory and days later he was

arrested at the home of a sentimental partner

.

The man had no record in France and was imprisoned pending release to the German authorities.

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