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In 1994, a 17-year-old girl, Nadège Desnoix, was found strangled dead in Château-Thierry in the Aisne. The investigation had given nothing at the time. Before a DNA recently taken in a case of domestic violence, does not match that found at the scene of the crime.
On May 24, 1994, the martyred body of this 17-year-old high school student was found close to her high school. Why will it take 27 years to identify a suspect? Thanks to its DNA, uA 54-year-old man was arrested in Rennes on Tuesday, November 30. A relief in the village where the young girl lived, here everyone knew her. But could justice have identified this suspect much earlier, nearly twenty years ago?
In 1996, the suspect with a heavy judicial record was convicted of rape, then involved in a new similar case in 2000. At the time, DNA was in its infancy, but recently there has been a national DNA register. This file supposed to contain the DNA of people convicted of sex crimes, did not contain that of the suspect. Only in connection with a recent domestic violence case that his DNA is put in the file, and that the link is done. The suspect’s DNA corresponds to a hair found at the crime scene in 1994. The man would have confessed Wednesday, December 1, without being able to explain the motive of his crime.
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