[4] His older foster sister, Christiane, testified that when he was 16 years old, Georges attempted to strangle her with an iron bar.

[2] During the period he committed his crimes, he worked closely with reporters from Paris Match magazine, before eventually participating in the kidnapping of one of their photojournalists, Yan Morvan.

[6] From 1991 to 1997, Guy Georges assaulted, tortured, raped and killed seven women in the neighbourhood of the Bastille, the Bourbon-era Parisian prison.

Anne Gautier, mother of Hélène Frinking, conducted her own "co-investigation," pressing the police to follow potential leads.

Frustrated with the lack of progress in the investigation, particularly after the murders of Magali Sirotti and Estelle Magd, Gautier went to the media to inform the public that there was an unidentified serial killer in Paris.

Georges was identified as the perpetrator in March 1998 after a judge ordered a manual search for a match in the DNA records of private clinics, which was a violation of typical regulations.

[2][3] Martine Monteil, director of the Serious Crimes Unit (brigade criminelle), stated in a 2021 documentary: "Yes, we circumvented the law, and we didn't care.

[3] Georges was arrested for the Paris murders and rapes on 26 March 1998 outside the Blanche metro station in the 9th arrondissement by officers on an unrelated stakeout.