On the wall, a huge map of a dynamic city in the southwest of France.
Half a dozen yellow thumbtacks are planted there for as many times as a mysterious unidentified rapist has raged in recent years.
At the window, the composite portrait aged by software from the “predator of the woods”.
This steely-eyed man with an emaciated face kidnapped and abused at least five teenage girls between 1998 and 2008 in the Paris region and Charente-Maritime before apparently ceasing all criminal activity.
No doubt: it is in this cramped office, on the 6th floor of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police, in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), that seven investigators track down serial killers and rapists throughout France.
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