The Dead Women of Perpignan: the confession | M6 | 66 minutes

It’s one of the most sordid cases that France has ever seen. A part of the mystery around the murdered women of the Perpignan rail station neighborhood that grabbed the headlines at the end of the 90s has been resolved. After 17 years of investigation, the hunt for the killer of Mokthaia Chaib has come to an end. He was picked up at his home on Tuesday night by investigators from the Montpellier detective squad. An investigation into a bloodthirsty killer, who now has a name: Jacques. R. The rap sheet of the butcher of Perpignan features every imaginable mutilation: from disemboweling, to dismemberment, to removal of sexual organs. The fifty year-old warehouseman, a native of Hailles in Picardy, was implicated via his DNA in the brutal murder of young Mokthaia Chaib in December 1997. But now, a link with the death of Marie-Hélène Gonzalez, in mid-1998, is not beyond the bounds of possibility. For Mokthaia’s brother there is enormous relief, even if he must relive horrific memories. Over the years his life has been thrown into turmoil with each twist and turn of the investigation. The Peruvian bogus surgeon, Andrès Palomino-Barrios, under suspicion for a while, was finally cleared, but eventually killed himself at his home in Valence in 2012. Esteban Reig, who was also accused of the murder, ended his days in prison… However, thanks to advances in forensic techniques, the two other abominable crimes of the Perpignan rail station, should not remain unpunished.