Guy Georges. The Killer of Paris
- Atenea
- Feb 16, 2021
- 3 min read
Any resemblance to coincidence is mere reality.
Paris, between the years 1980 and 1997, approximately, Guy Georges, a murderer of women, who was arrested and released on more than one occasion by the French police, and whose homicides could have been prevented, according to later investigation.
In February 1984, after his 3rd attempt to murder a woman, he was given a considerable sentence, but after almost 10 years in prison he was granted conditional freedom on the condition that he return every night. Curiously, his psychological studies had revealed psychopathic traits, but for some reason this was ignored. One night he escaped, and a death occurred.
It was the year 1991, January 26 to be precise; one night, a young woman, Pascale Escarfail, 19 years old, a literature student at the Sorbonne, was walking towards her apartment. As she stopped to take out her keys and open the door, suddenly a muscular man took advantage of the moment to push her inside the apartment and begin to rape her. When he finished, he looked over his shoulder to see his “work of art” and watched as the girl bled to death, because after Pascale had given him a strong kick, his anger made him tie her to the bed, gag her, and finally cut her throat with the knife he carried. He bit into an apple, took a sip of cold beer from the refrigerator, because until that moment his appetites had been satisfied—but for how long?After Pascale’s murder, Guy was only reprimanded for having escaped from prison, without raising any suspicion of the homicide the night before. The negligence and omission of the French police after this fact caused six more women to become Georges’ victims.In 1994, Catherine Rocher, 27 years old, was murdered in the same way as Pascale, but with the variation that she was killed in her car in a parking lot. This homicide was followed by five more in the same manner, all in parking lots, all five women raped and murdered: Elsa Benady in 1994, Agnes Nijkamp in 1994, Helene Frinking in 1995, Magali Sirotti in 1997, and Estelle Magd in 1997.
At that time there were no DNA records or databases that could be of help; however, the French police had not connected any of the cases until they found a partial shoe print that matched a previous victim.
Later, Paris residents were alarmed enough that a judge ordered all laboratories to share their genetic data. In this way, an exact match was obtained for a person who had already been in the system for 3 years.
When Guy, 37 years old, was arrested on March 26, 1998, he did not resist much, and although he confessed to a couple of murders attributed to him, at the time of trial he denied the confessions and declared himself innocent. However, eight months later he admitted to the other murders, and on April 5, 2001, the judge sentenced him to 22 years in prison. In 2020 he was granted freedom; he is now 58 years old.
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