The man arrested on Tuesday, November 30 because his DNA corresponds to that found at the scene of the murder of a high school student in 1994 in Château-Thierry, in the Aisne, admitted to being the author of this crime, providing the beginning of an answer to the family, the prosecution announced Thursday, December 2.
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Arrested on November 30 in Ille-et-Vilaine where he works, the individual admitted during his police custody that he was the author of this fact
", reported the public prosecutor of Soissons, Julien Morino-Ros, in a press release.
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Presented before the investigating magistrate, the individual made spontaneous statements by which he maintained his words
", adds the prosecutor.
The 55-year-old man was indicted and remanded in custody.
Comparison of her genetic profile following domestic violence proceedings
In May 1994, the body lacerated by stab wounds of Nadège Desnoix, 17, was discovered at the edge of a path near the technical high school where she was a student in first class.
The teenager had not suffered sexual violence, according to the autopsy carried out after the fact.
Living about fifteen kilometers from her school, she had taken a bus very early in the morning to go to class.
At the material time, the accused resided in Seine-et-Marne, about thirty kilometers from Château-Thierry, underlines Julien Morino-Ros.
This man was then sentenced in 1997 in Meaux for acts of sexual assault on a minor then in 2002, at the assizes, for acts of rape committed in 2000, indicates the press release of the prosecutor.
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His genetic profile, recently included in the national DNA file following a domestic violence procedure, corresponds to a male DNA profile taken at the scene of the crime. New investigations have followed one another in the investigation of this "cold case" since the beginning of the year, new requisitions being taken to compare this DNA with those of the persons on file.
Following this indictment, the parents, brothers and sisters of Nadège Desnoix thanked, through a press release from their lawyer Me Arnaud Miel, "
the investigative and judicial services which have never ceased despite the time which elapses, to seek the author of this homicide
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The years of suffering, of incessant quest for the truth and for the identity of the person who gave Nadège atrocious death, find in this day, finally, a beginning of answer to the countless questions which haunt them
", continues Me Miel, noting that this new legal step constitutes "
an additional test for them but necessary for the manifestation of the truth
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