Paris - A French man suspected of raping and killing seven young women in Paris went on trial yesterday.
Mr Guy Georges (38), is also standing trial accused of four other assaults allegedly carried out during a seven-year wave of violence. He was arrested in March 1998 during a nationwide manhunt.
From 1991 to 1997, seven young women were discovered murdered with their throats slit in eastern areas of the capital. The attacker, apparently got to know his victims and talked his way into their apartments before killing them.
DNA tests linked Mr Georges to four of the killings and he confessed to three others.