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France Rape Case: DNA test for 527 people in the rape of a 16 year old, will all come back negative?

France Rape Case: DNA test for 527 people in the rape of a 16 year old, will all come back negative?

Asked by: Super Userkruijs in General » Other
Settled on 03/20/2015 04:57 Settled by Super UserStephen Tilley
Winning option:Yes, all negative French authorities say DNA testing of all male pupils and staff at a school has failed to identify the assailant who raped a teenage girl on the closed campus.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/22/french-school-rape-dna-testing-la-rochelle

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The prosecutor in a western French city says it was an easy decision to order DNA tests for 527 people in the rape of a 16-year-old girl who was attacked at school.

The DNA dragnet started Monday in La Rochelle, and prosecutor Isabelle Pagenelle says so far no one has refused. The testing of 527 male students, faculty and staff at Fenelon-Notre Dame high school is expected to last through Wednesday.

Pagenelle said investigators exhausted all other leads in the rape last fall.

"The choice is simple for me," she said. Either I file it away and wait for a match in what could be several years, or I go looking for the match myself."

Pagenelle had said anyone who refuses the test could be considered a suspect and taken into custody.

"This happened during the school day in a confined space," Chantal Devaux, the private Roman Catholic school's director, said in interviews with French media. "The decision to take such a large sample was made because it was the only way to advance the investigation."

Devaux acknowledged that all the results could come back negative, sending investigators back to the drawing board.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/527-dna-tests-french-high-school-rape-suspect

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