Mass DNA testing in school to find rapist in Western France
Minor raped when the light from an automatic time switch went off
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-04-14 02:34 GMT
La Rochelle: More than 500 male students and staff at a French school will undergo DNA tests from Monday in a bid to discover who raped a 16-year-old girl in a dark school toilet.
The tests, a first in a French school, will end on Wednesday and target 475 high school students, 31 teachers and 21 others present on the premises on September 30 when the rape happened.
The schoolgirl was assaulted in private Catholic Fenelon-Notre-Dame high school in Atlantic port city of La Rochelle.
The attack took place after the light from an automatic time switch went off and she could not give the physical details of her attacker. There are 1,200 students in the school. The cost of the operation will be 5,000 euros.