An inspection of justice on possible « dysfunctions » ordered by Darmanin – Liberation

Dominique Pelicot had passed under radars. Gérald Darmanin asked the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) to establish why investigations had not been launched in 2010 after the identification of Dominique Pelicot’s DNA in a rape attempted case, according to a mission letter consulted this Friday, May 2.

This mission, revealed by RTL and ordered Wednesday by the Keeper of the Seals at the IGJ, must in particular establish « The reality or not of alleged dysfunctions », appeared at the time Dominique Pelicot’s trialwhich took place from September to December 2024 before the Vaucluse criminal court. She must make her report by July 31.

Dominique Pelicot was sentenced in December to 20 years in criminal imprisonment for having drugged his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, In order to rape it and deliver it to dozens of strangers in Mazan, between 2011 and 2020.

During the trial, it appeared that he was arrested in 2010 in a shopping center filming under the skirts of women. His DNA was then taken. A few months later, he had « Reviving with a trace + unknown + Taken in a previous procedure, open following an attempted rape committed in Villeparisis on May 11, 1999 ”, As with another procedure, for murder with rape in Paris in 1991, recalls the mission letter.

However, these rapprochements did not give rise to any exploitation. It was not until January that Dominique Pelicot was indicted in these two cases by an investigating judge of the « Cold Cases » pole in Nanterre. He recognized the attempted rape but denied the murder in Paris.