On August 20, the body of a 15-year-old teenage girl was discovered in an apartment in downtown Nantes, as Europe 1 revealed to you. It was the firefighters, who intervened in an arson, who discovered the body, in the attic of a house under renovation. On Saturday, a man confessed. His DNA was found at the scene.
Sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2005
Aged 45, he has a very heavy judicial past. Sentenced in 2005 to 18 years of criminal imprisonment for a series of rapes and sexual assaults, he was released from prison in 2016, benefiting from a remission of his sentence with a socio-judicial follow-up of 10 years. According to Nantes deputy prosecutor Yvon Ollivier, the man fully respected the follow-up. "When such a drama occurs, it is a failure for everyone. But justice has worked according to the law. There are people who can meet obligations without wanting to work on the heart of the matter," he said. commented Yvon Ollivier.
An abandoned house he had spotted
How to detect the part of truth and simulation in this individual described as cold enough, capable of preparing meticulously his plans, leaving nothing to show in his daily life, with his partner and his colleagues? In Nantes, he had asked his victim, crossed at random, for help to carry a cardboard box upstairs to an abandoned house he had spotted. It was there that he raped and killed her, a step he had never taken before. "It was to prevent him from screaming," he told justice.
His coolness prompts investigators to take a fresh look at the still unresolved facts in the region. Since his release from prison, the suspect, who faces life imprisonment, has spent 66 months without arousing the slightest suspicion.