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【Global Network Report】Decades of hunting have finally failed? According to CNN reported on October 1, after 35 years of investigation into a series of murders and rapes in France, the police locked a retired police officer as a suspect, but just before he was about to be arrested, the suspect committed suicide...
Dna samples taken by the police from him matched the genetic data collected at the crime scene.
Paris prosecutor Laurie said in a statement that officials have been looking for perpetrators in five cases, including rape of a 15-year-old, murder, attempted murder, armed robbery and more. All of the above-mentioned cases occurred between 1986 and 1994.
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After years of investigation, the case-handling personnel gradually targeted the murderer. The DNA test results showed a link between a police officer who is currently retired and the crimes, the statement said. Evidence gathered suggests that the perpetrators may have been serving in the French gendarmerie at the time of these cases. The report also mentioned that at the time of the crime, about 750 gendarmes in the Paris area were summoned for examination.
The man, 59, lives in the south of France. On September 24 this year, he was informed that as part of the investigation, he would be examined on September 29, local time.
Soon, however, a bizarre event occurred.
Prosecutors said that the man's wife reported that he was missing on the 27th local time. Two days later, the day he was scheduled to be examined, the man's body was found in a location in the south of France.
Prosecutor Laurie said the man had been a gendarme before joining the police force. Although the man's name was not mentioned in the statement, CNN's media outlet BFMTV said a source with knowledge of the investigation said that the man's name was François Verov.
BFMTV also quoted local media as saying that Verov left a suicide note acknowledging himself as a murderer but not revealing the victim's name. However, he said he later "took control of himself" and "hasn't done anything [illegal] since 1997."