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"All the investigators broke their teeth there": the confidences of the commissioner who unmasked the "rapist of the Sambre"

2022-06-10T04:12:20.632Z


INTERVIEW - Romuald Muller, head of the Judicial Police of Lille, tells Le Figaro the 30 years of tracking down the "rapist of the Sambre", whose trial for 56 sexual assaults and rapes opens this Friday.


LE FIGARO.

- How did the Lille judicial police manage to apprehend the

"

rapist of the Sambre

"

 ?

Romuald Muller.

-

Our analysis services were fully aware of the modus operandi: an individual surprises his victims in the street early in the morning from behind, threatens them with a knife or a cord, then proceeds to touching, sexual assault even rape.

Belgium and France send each other daily information on criminal acts observed in their sector.

Our two countries have porous borders, which widens the sector of activity of a criminal.

On February 5, 2018, the Belgian police informed us of a sexual assault in Erquelinnes, for which we immediately made a connection.

Luckily, a CCTV camera had filmed part of the license plate of a Peugeot 206 parked nearby, used by the attacker.

Since then,

we bet everything on this car.

About twenty…

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Source: lefigaro

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