Bruno L. committed suicide during his detention at Fleury-Mérogis prison (Essonne), AFP learned from the prosecution d'Evry.
Bruno L. was in pre-trial detention, awaiting trial for the kidnappings of five teenage girls aged 15 to 19, taken by car to a wooded area and raped at gunpoint. Although he left DNA traces at the crime scenes, he could not be found for more than 20 years, as investigators failed to find a match to the genetic profiles in their files. His DNA made it possible to identify a couple, who died in the 1970s, as being part of his ancestors. The investigators then exploited their family tree and were able to trace it back to him. He admitted before the investigating judge to having premeditated his actions, the first in La Rochelle on December 4, 1998, the four others in the Paris region, on April 1, 1999, April 16, 2000, July 3, 2000 and June 8, 2008.