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Guy Georges. The killer of Paris
Guy Georges

Author: Brenda Edith Cetina Juarez

Bachelor of Criminology

February 16, 2022

Any resemblance to coincidence is mere reality. 

Paris, years between 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 that the murders could have been avoided, according to subsequent investigations. 

In February 1984, after her 3rd attempted murder a woman was given a considerable sentence, but after almost 10 years in prison she was granted conditional release in exchange for her coming back every night, curiously her psychological studies had shown psychopathic traits , but was ignored for some reason. One night he ran away and a death occurred. 

It was the year 1991, January 26, to be precise; when one night, a girl; Pascale Escarfail, 19, a student of letters at the Sorbonne, was walking towards her apartment, stopping to take out her keys and open the door, suddenly, a well-muscled guy took advantage of the moment to push inside the apartment and start raping her. When he finished his task, he turned over his shoulder to see his work of art and see how the girl bled to death, because after Pascale kicked her hard, her anger made her tie her to the bed, gag her and finally cut her throat with the knife he brought with him. He bit into an apple, took a sip of the cold beer he had taken from the refrigerator, because so far his appetites had been satiated, but for how long?   

After Pascale's murder, Guy was only reprimanded for having fled from prison, raising no suspicion of the previous night's murder. The carelessness and omission of the French police after this fact, caused that 6 more women were victims of Georges. 

In 1994, 27-year-old Catherine Rocher was killed 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 5 more in the same way, the 5 in parking lots, the 5 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. 

By this time there were no DNA records, no databases that could be of help; however French police have not linked any of the cases, until they find a partial shoe print that matches a previous victim. 

Later, residents of Paris became alarmed enough that a judge ordered all labs to share their genetic data, thus obtaining an exact match from a person who had already been in the system for 3 years. 

When the 37-year-old Guy was arrested on March 26, 1998, he did not put up much of a fight, and although he confessed to a couple of the murders he was charged with, at the time of trial he denied the confessions and pleaded not guilty.  However, after 8 months, he admitted the other homicides and on April 5, 2001, the judge gave him 22 years in prison. In 2020 he was granted his freedom, he is now 58 years old.  

Bibliography  

Belingard, C. (January 7, 2015). franceinfo. Retrieved on August 18, 2021, from Comment la police afini par arrêter Guy Georges, le tueur de l'est parisien: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/france/comment-la-police-a-fini-par -arreter-guy-georges-le-tueur-de-l-est-parisien_789405.html  

Interesting, M. (2017). Serial killers. Very Interesting, 159. 

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