A 24-year-old suspect was arrested last Tuesday in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, for a rape committed five years ago in Guadeloupe on a woman born in 1924. He was indicted and imprisoned for rape on person vulnerable and then placed in pre-trial detention,
Le Figaro
learned
from the Paris prosecutor's office.
The man ended up being confused by his DNA found at the crime scene.
However, the first genetic analyzes had given nothing.
It was after the second expertise that its DNA could be recognized in 2021.
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For two years, the man remained untraceable on the island but the investigators ended up finding his trace in the Paris region.
The suspect residing in mainland France, the file was sent to the Paris prosecutor's office in March 2023, which allowed him to be arrested on rue de Crimée last Tuesday.