Le Grêlé case: DNA has spoken, the man who committed suicide in Grau-du-Roi is indeed the serial killer

From a police source, the comparative DNA have just confirmed this Thursday, September 30 that the suicide of Grau-du-Roi, François V . is the person wanted for 35 years by the justice for a series of murders and rapes never elucidated. The suspect was called the Hailed because of his scarred face. This 59-year-old man, a former gendarme who became a police officer of the motorized brigade when he moved to Montpellier, received a summons last Friday from the DTPJ (territorial direction of the judicial police).

A suicide in Grau-du-Roi

He was to go to the police station on Wednesday 29 September for a DNA sample: the judge in charge of the cases had asked to check the fingerprints of all the gendarmes on duty at the time of the facts in the area of ​​the crimes committed. But François V. who lived with his wife in La Grande-Motte, left Monday evening in his apartment in Grau-du-Roi which he usually rented by airbnb. Having no more news, his relatives raised the alarm. He found himself dead in the apartment, committed suicide by massive absorption of pills while leaving a letter: he talks about the crimes and his desire to put an end to it so that his family is not splashed by the scandal.