A French court has jailed a man for 20 years over dozens of rapes and sexual assaults he committed over a 30-year period along the border with Belgium.
Dino Scala, 61, will serve at least two thirds of his sentence behind bars.He confessed to around 40 of the 56 rapes and assaults he was charged with.
A former janitor and family man seen as a pillar of the community, his 2018 arrest and subsequent trial for 17 rapes, 12 attempted rapes and 27 assaults shocked France. And an expert psychologist consulted by the court spoke of a"gulf between the social face and the hidden face" of the accused. Investigators suspect that beyond the crimes tried in court, there were other victims who did not come forward to police.
Police began their search in November 1996, when a 28-year-old woman said she was raped alongside a motorway near Maubeuge. Investigators found the attacker's DNA at the scene but found no matches in police databases.
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