Police says Gisèle Pelicot may not be the victim of her first husband.

In December, The court ruled Dominic Pelicot For 20 years in prison to nominate her wife Gisèle and invite dozens of men to their bedroom for rape between 2011 and 2020.

Trial France surprised and converted Mr. Beckot to The most famous sexual predator in France. His wife became Gisèle, Feminist icon.

But the police and prosecutors suspected that they were not the first victim. Antoine Camus said in an interview.

While Mr. Pelicut was in prison awaiting his trial, the police confronted him with the DNA evidence that he had attempting to rape a 19 -year -old woman in the Paris region in 1999. After hours of interrogation, he admitted to her anesthesia, telling the police, “I am.”

It is also being investigated by the rape and killing of a 23 -year -old woman in 1991. Mr. Beckot has denied any involvement in killing. But the prosecutors accused him in 2022 of both crimes, which are very similar to folding them in one case.

Both victims were young real estate agents in the Paris region. Both were attacked violently with a cod, bound, and its anesthetic with the ether and the lower part of their bodies. In both scenes of the crime, the victim’s shoes were found in their position in the room.

No experimental date has been set.

Today, Mr. Pelekot, 72, was imprisoned in southern France, not far from the village in which he and his wife retired, who are now divorced. But in 1991, Mr. Pelicot worked as a real estate agent in Paris, and by 1999, he occupied a job as a fluid for warning and phone devices.

The woman who was killed, Sophie Narm, was working for a month in her first job as a real estate agent when she was killed.

On the evening of December 4, 1991, her employer discovered her neglected body, which was partially removed in an apartment on the upper floor she showed to the customer earlier that morning in the nineteenth district in Paris. The police suspect that the agent was Mr. Beckot using a fake name.

They discovered a strong aroma of the ether at the crime scene and during the autopsy. She was beaten, the drug, stabbed, strangled with her private belt and rape, according to the investigation documents that were read in the court during his trial last year.

Although the crime scene showed traces of violence, with the content of the Mrs. Narm’s portfolio across the room, its high -heeled shoes were found in his position next to the body.

Eight years later, in 1999, a 19 -year -old real estate agent met a potential agent on the upper floor of a residential building in the Paris region because it was supposed to be a routine visit to consider a rental unit. The customer, whom the authorities are suspected again, is Mr. Beckot using the pseudonym, asked her to take some measurements in the apartment.

While she turned her back, she installed her on the ground, forced her to her stomach, and tied her wrists with a rope and pressed on a tissue covered in her nose, according to the lawyer of the victim, whose name was not revealed. She tried to breathe her breath while numbing her.

Take off its high -heeled shoes, and put it carefully on the side. She remembered to feel a box against her skin while her striker pressed her throat with his arm.

“I was still slowing than the product that made me inhale,” the woman told the investigators according to the documents of the case that I read in the court. “I couldn’t get around, I remember that I felt like a prisoner in my body. I didn’t want him to see that I was awake. I felt that I could not move.”

But the effects of the medicine soon wore, and the victim fought her attacker and then managed to hide in a warehouse, and lock it from the inside. Her striker finally left.

The police collected the effects of his blood on its shoes and on the carpet floor. But for years, they did not make any progress. In 2011, the case was dropped.

It was only reopened when it was linked to the Narme killing case.

Over the past 34 years, Florence Rajolt, the lawyer for Mrs. Narm’s mother, has continued to follow up the murder case, or the court’s request regularly to analyze evidence or explore new threads.

“I was doing it for Sophie,” Mrs. Roll said. “She promised her mother that we will reach the end of this story and that she will not die before knowing the name of her daughter’s killer.”

Early in 2004, the police had already contacted the two cases. But at the time, the national system for classifying criminal records of the DNA was barely functional.

The effects of sperm in the crime scene in 1991 were lost by the Forensic Medicine Institute responsible for the sample analysis.

In 2010, Mr. Pelicot was first arrested to photograph women’s skirts in a commercial center in the Paris region, using a camera hidden in a pen. It was left with a fine of 100 euros, equivalent to about $ 104.

He was arrested while doing it again in 2020, in a supermarket in southern France. But this time, the security guard encouraged the victims to file an official complaint, which allowed the police to conduct an investigation.

This is when the police say they linked the DNA to Mr. Beckout to attempted rape in 1999.

Mrs. RAULT is now a lawyer for this case as well. Through Mrs. Rault, the woman who has survived said she moved and did not want to publicly talk about the case. However, she participated in legal procedures and faced Mr. Beckout in 2023 as part of the investigation.

By that time, Mr. Beelkot has admitted many details about the attempt to rape. He told the police that he went to a real estate agency in Paris because he wanted to feel his old job and verify rental prices.

He said he acted on the “motivation”, After meeting the agent and preparing an appointment to visit the apartment. Then he returned to his car to get the rope and what he described as a “head of cleaning headquarters” – a bottle of ether.

He told the investigating judge: “I was not planning to get relationships with her,” explaining that he had anesthetized because he wanted to look at her non -pickled body while avoiding any violence.

“I tried to forget that for a long time,” he added. “I apologize for lying, it was difficult to confess.”

His lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, said that the statement of the police does not rise to the “official recognition” of the crime.

She said: “He recognizes the material of making it asleep, as he does not admit to carrying a knife, and explains that if all this happens, this was not a basic intention to rape it.”

The French media also mentioned His lawyer said that the police were looking into two similar cases from 1995 and 2004, although Mr. Pelekot was not interrogated by the police.

As for the 1991 killing, Mr. Beckot has repeatedly denied any connection. His lawyer said: “There is no way he will leave because he does not really want to recognize him as a killer.” “Because he is not a killer.”

Catherine Porter The reports contributed.