A 52-year-old Italian was arrested on October 16 in eastern France, following a European warrant issued by Germany, where he is suspected of having committed 160 rapes and sexual assaults against minors, police said on Friday.
Cosimo Chionna, detained in the town of Rumersheim-Le-Haut, near Strasbourg, is suspected of raping or sexually abusing the children of his female companions between 2000 and 2014.
Germany has opened 122 investigations into 160 acts of rape or sexual assault against minors, according to France’s National Fugitive Search Brigade (BNRF), which added that the individual had recently fled the German country to settle in the border region of Alsace .
On 7 October, the BNRF was alerted by German counterparts about the presence of this man in France and, after three days, information on his location was provided to the French who entrusted the investigation to the Strasbourg Judicial Police.
Finally, on 16 October, the Strasbourg Research and Intervention Brigade arrested the man at the home of one of his companions.
Unknown in France, Cosimo Chionna was jailed in Colmar prison pending delivery to the German authorities.
According to the information available to the BNRF, the Italian reportedly raped his daughter since November 2000 for 10 years. At the same time, he would have done the same with the younger daughters of another partner.
“He operated in his different family circles,” commented one of the elements.
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