Shocking: the ex-gendarme committed suicide and confessed in a letter that he was a serial killer | the Chronicle

Una serie de asesinatos y violaciones, que datan de hace 35 años, parecen haber sido slaveecidos por parte de la justicia francesa, ya que el suicidio de un ex gendarme hace pocos días fue la llave para discover that el occiso fue el autor de los ilícitos , because DNA and a written confession before committing suicide revealed his predicament.

“It looks great”, was the reaction of Didier Seban |, lawyer for the families of three victims of Francois Vérove, on which now weigh more than serious suspicions that he could be involved in four murders and six rapes between 1986 and 1994 in the Paris region.

From the outset, the prosecution explained in a press release that in several investigations his genetic fingerprint matches the one that was found at crime scenes.

Vérove, who was 59 years old and lived in the south of France, received a summons for questioning on September 24 last Wednesday.

France: investigation and suicide

Investigators favored the clue that the perpetrator of five crimes I could have been a gendarme at the time of the facts, They had managed to identify a DNA they were trying to name and decided to track down 750 potential suspects.

But Vérove did not appear and his wife said on Monday that she had not heard from him and last Wednesday they found him dead in Grau-du-Roi, near the city of Montpellier. He had committed suicide and he had left a letter confessing his crimes.

“We will ask Justice to continue the investigation to find out if it may have had accomplices and determine the number of victims it may have caused”, pointed out in a radio interview France Info Seban, who insisted that “Families must have answers.”

Before he was identified, researchers called him “the hail”, in reference to the face pricked by acne scars, which some of its victims had been able to see and which appeared in the robot portrait which was hung for years in many police stations in the country.

François Vérove had been a motorcyclist gendarme in the Republican Guard between 1983 and 1988 and subsequently became a police officer, also in a motorcycle brigade in Marseille and then in Montpellier. He had been a member of a police union, but He had already been retired for several years.

In recent years, he had been involved in the municipal management of the city of Prades-le-Lez, near Montpellier, where he had been elected municipal councilor.

More victims?

According to the extracts leaked by the press, in the letter he left when he committed suicide, he states that “since 1997” had given up his criminal activity, which raises doubts, since the last fact attributed to him dates from 1994.

In fact, he recounts this turning point in his life when he met his wife, with whom he had two children, to whom he addressed his letter.