Paris – For decades, the French police searched for a serial killer who was up to mischief in Paris. For decades, you had little more than a phantom image of a man with smallpox or acne scars.
Now it is clear: the smallpox beast who cruelly murdered a German au pair girl who wreaked havoc near the famous Notre-Dame church between 1986 and 1994 was himself a police officer.
François Vérove (59) was serving as a gendarme in Paris at the time. When his former colleagues tracked him down, he poisoned himself.
The spectacular case: In April 1986 Vérove lures little Sarah (8) into a cellar in his police uniform and rapes her. A month later he kills Cecile (11), more acts follow.
Photo: Private
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On April 29, 1987, the German Irmgard Müller (20) and the Frenchman Gilles Politi (38), with whom she lived as an au pair, were found dead. Politi is tied up on the bed, his body covered with cigarette burns. He was strangled.
Photo: police
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Photo: Marie Magnin
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Photo: TFM 