French police have arrested a man dubbed the “forest lurker”, suspected of having committed at least five rapes between 1998 and 2008.<\/p>\n
The 62-year-old was arrested in Seine-a-Marne on the outskirts of Paris and faces possible charges of rape by force of arms, kidnapping and detention of liberty, reports a local Arabic daily quoting AFP.<\/p>\n
The AFP quoting French judicial sources said the police made several calls to help them identify a person suspected of committing a series of rapes in the vicinity of Paris and in La Rochelle, in the Charente-Maritime region, in the west of the country, using the same method each time.<\/p>\n
Chief investigator Philippe Guichard said in 2019, when the police launched a public campaign to identify the suspect, the latter was committing his actions without covering his face, and traces of DNA appeared in each of the cases.<\/p>\n
The ages of the victims ranged between 15 and 19 years, and the perpetrator was killing his victims after threatening them with a knife and taking them to forested areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
French police have arrested a man dubbed the “forest lurker”, suspected of having committed at least five rapes between 1998 and 2008. The 62-year-old was arrested in Seine-a-Marne on the outskirts of Paris and faces possible charges of rape by force of arms, kidnapping and detention of liberty, reports a local Arabic daily quoting AFP. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2151,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n