While she takes advantage of this sunny Saturday to stroll through the streets of Grenoble (Isère), Agathe, 21, does not hide her relief when she learns that the serial rapist – who has been raging in the capital of the Alps since the month of December – has been in police custody since Friday afternoon. “If it is indeed the scooter rapist who has been arrested, we will be able to breathe, forget the anxiety of going out in the evening to party. » The DNA of this man corresponds to that found on one of the victims according to the forensic laboratory of Lyon (Rhône), where analyzes were carried out urgently between Friday and Saturday.
This 22-year-old young man, already known to the police for minor acts, presented himself on his own at the Grenoble police station, according to Dauphiné Libéré. “The important and patient work of the numerous police officers mobilized in the search for the scooter rapist has paid off,” welcomed the Grenoble public prosecutor, Éric Vaillant.
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