Genetic tests on villagers

Rennes - Controversial genetic tests will be made this month on the men of a French village where a teenager British girl was…

Rennes - Controversial genetic tests will be made this month on the men of a French village where a teenager British girl was raped and strangled on a school trip last year, judicial sources yesterday said.

The tests will target 170 men aged 15 to 35 in PleineFougeres, the small Brittany village where Caroline Dickinson (13) was killed in July 1996 in a youth hostel.

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