Towards a dismissal for Dominique Pelicot?

Scene of great violence – Towards dismissal dominique pelicot?

The first dates back to December 4, 1991 to 22 rue Manin in the 19th arrondissement in Paris. However, That day. However, around 10:45 am, Sophie Narme, 23, a real estate agent by profession has an appointment with a potential buyer, interested in an apartment he wants on the “top floor”. Meanwhile, For him, there is no question of having neighbors above his head. Similarly, The building in question is at the back of the court and. Similarly, as often in Paris in the old constructions, without elevator. Moreover, A neighbor remembers having heard “a man and a woman discuss on the stairs”, then nothing.

The towards dismissal dominique pelicot? day is happening. Similarly, Without news from her daughter, Sophie Narme’s mother alerted her employer. Therefore, The latter immediately went there. Moreover, It is 9:30 p.m. Meanwhile, The manager of the real estate agency introduces the key to the apartment lock but it is not locked. Consequently, In the dark, he progresses groped in a first room, launching “Sophie?” Sophie? Moreover, ». Nevertheless, Arrived in a second room in the accommodation, it is a scene of great violence which spreads before his eyes. For example, A strong smell of ether permeates the air. For example, Sophie Narme, hair in battle, is lying on the ground, face down. Meanwhile, The belt she wore around the waist was knotted around her neck. Moreover, The young real estate agent was strangled. For example, She was also raped by her murderer. Similarly, The autopsy will reveal that it was also injured using an object towards dismissal dominique pelicot? cutting under the left breast. Furthermore, Investigators from the Criminal Brigade of the Parisian judicial police are seized with this murder.

“They did a crazy job. Furthermore, they checked everything, it’s real criminal brigade job of 36, Quai des Orfèvres,” said Florence Rault, lawyer for Sophie Narme family members. Meanwhile, But the investigation tramples and ends up taking dust from Crim ‘.

Another unclear file

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It will be necessary to wait for the resumption of the procedure by the Turquey judge to towards dismissal dominique pelicot? relaunch the case. The magistrate is first interested in another non-elucidated file: that of Marion*. victim of a terrible assault, on May 11, 1999, during the visit of an apartment with a “client” of her real estate agency near Villeparisis (Seine-et-Marne).

On the day of the facts. around noon, the young woman, aged 19, finds herself in the accommodation visited with a certain “Mr. Rigaux”. Once in the duplex. the customer rides on Marion, before placing it on the ground and threatening it with a cutter. He then places a cloth soaked with ether on his mouth to make him lose consciousness. But the victim struggles fiercely. then, in an instinct of survival, manages to make himself in the dressing room of the room. Outside him, his attacker tries to extricate him before turning back and disappearing. Marion will be rescued several hours later by her employer, worried not to hear towards dismissal dominique pelicot? her news. Judicial information is opened by the Meaux prosecutor’s office and is entrusted to an investigating judge. But for lack of a convincing element. the file is the subject of a dismissal in 2002 and the facts are now prescribed.

But a link between the rape. murder of Sophie Narme and the attempted rape on Marion was established, in 2004, by the Salvac software (system of analysis of the ties of violence associated with crimes). This computer tool. developed by the Royal Canadian gendarmerie in the early 1990s, was made available to the French judicial police in 2003. Salvac made a rapprochement between the operating mode. – a single man -, the victims, – two real estate agents -, and the product used by the aggressor – of ether -, in these two cases.

At the time, comparisons between DNA discovered on the two crime scenes were operated. Without result.

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Improbable discovery

Back in 2022, in the office of the investigating judge, Nathalie Turquey. Renowned for its sense of detail. its tenacity, the magistrate-instructor asks the investigators of the criminal brigade to explore, again, the Marion file.

The latter then make an improbable discovery: DNA. extracted from a drop of blood from the aggressor of Marion, taken from the heel of one of the shoes of the latter, “matched” with that of a man, surprised filming under the skirts of the clients of a supermarket, in July 2010, in Collegean (Seine-et-Marne). This genetic imprint is none other than that of Dominique Pelicot.

And, until 2022, this rapprochement had gone completely unnoticed! For what reasons? Difficult to say it today. Informed of this “dysfunction”. the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin asked the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) to shed light on this embarrassing situation to say the least. The IGJ report is expected towards dismissal dominique pelicot? “for the month of September”. according to a source close to the Keeper of the Seals.

For his part, interviewed by Turquey judge, Dominique Pelicot recognizes, willy -nilly, the attempted rape on Marion. The magistrate then puts him indicted for this case, but also for the rape and murder of Sophie Narme. A file that is not prescribed and for which Dominique Pelicot claims his innocence.

Principle of connection

This double indictment in two separate cases was made possible thanks to the principle of connection. “There is a new text of the penal code which makes it possible to bring out prescribed files if there is a sufficient connection link with another non -prescribed case. ” recalls Me Florence Rault. This is the case between the Sophie Narme and Marion files. It is identical to 85-90 %. There is therefore a junction which was ordered by the Turquey judge between the two files towards dismissal dominique pelicot? ”.

But another. size, could allow Dominique Pelicot to escape these new legal proceedings: the loss of seals in the Sophie Narme case.

The latter’s clothes, kept and placed under seal, remain not found, despite intense research. Stopped in the sealing service of the Paris court. these clothes, – whose latest analyzes date back to 2007 – seem to have been lost.

“Research was still carried out at the start of this year,” says Florence Rault. But no one can get their hands on it. ”

Subject to new analysis techniques, these seals could, perhaps, reveal the presence of one or more DNA.

Call to Gérald Darmanin

The challenge is of importance: without formal evidence of the involvement of Dominique Pelicot in the rape. murder of Sophie Narme, he could benefit from a dismissal. By ricochet, the same dismissal decision would be automatically taken for Marion’s assault, since the latter is prescribed.

An unbearable perspective for the towards dismissal dominique pelicot? victim and his relatives. In an attempt to avoid such a way out. her lawyer, Me Florence Rault, sent a letter, on May 19, to Gérald Darmanin, in order to ask him to “diligent a general inspection of the services of the Paris judicial registry”. “These seals have not been destroyed (Editor’s note: no destruction slip appears in the investigation file). They exist and must be sought effectively by all means and found. Otherwise, this new loss would constitute a new cause of state responsibility ”.

In the same Missive. Me Florence Rault, also lawyer for Caroline Pelicot, daughter of Dominique Pelicot, deplores the departure, for reasons questioning, of judge Nathalie Turquey of the Cold Cases pole, as revealed by Paris Match.

Turquey judge must not abandon her mission ”

“It is impossible that the Turquey judge. a true memory of this file and who has never stopped tracking down the murderer of towards dismissal dominique pelicot? Sophie Narme, abandons her mission along the way, especially for bad reasons” points out the council, before claiming “an inspection of the Cold Cases pole so that existing tensions be put an end to and to give this entity the means to fully fulfill its mission. On this condition alone, the judges who compose it will be able to continue theirs ”.

Me Florence Rault also plans to seize the President of the Republic. Emmanuel Macron, while his letter to the Minister of Justice remained unanswered.

And if Dominique Pelicot was to benefit from a dismissal in the affairs Sophie Narme. Marion, an action in the responsibility of the State would be initiated. A very meager consolation for the civil parties.

*The first name has been changed