On Saturday January 11 at 2:05 p.m., France 2 broadcasts a new episode ofAt the end of the investigation. A new issue looking at the criminal journey of Dino Scala. A serial rapist who operated from 1988 to 2018, along the Sambre river.
This Saturday, France 2 will offer a new number of its show At the end of the investigation. From 2:05 p.m., she will return to the affair of “rapist of the Sambre”the nickname of Dino Scala. A two-faced criminal. Involved in the life of his village, face of the associative world, and serial rapist, having committed his crimes from 1988 to 2018. Sentenced in 2022, he is now the target of new cases. His case was discussed in a series, Sambreon France 2, carried by Alix Poisson.
Dini Scala, the man with two faces
A mechanic-assembler at Jeumont Electric in the North, Dino Scala presented his colleagues with the face of a worker like any other. For his neighbors in Pont-sur-Sambre, this man born on April 21, 1961 left the memory of a resourceful person always there to lend a helping hand, a football coach roaming the department’s fields. A facet which would have allowed him to continue his crimes without being too worried by the police between 1988 and 2018. Every year, at the same period, he hid along the Sambre river, in France and in Belgium, for “hunt your victims”according to his terms. Arrested after being put on the run in Belgium and identified using the license plate of his vehicle, he admitted to being the author of numerous crimes. In July 2022, he was sentenced to 20 years of criminal imprisonment for 54 rapes, attempted rapes, sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults.
One or more rapists from the Sambre?
A little less than a year later, in March 2023, a judicial investigation was opened into attacks, rapes or attempts on 14 victims between 1988 and 2009, with the Valenciennes public prosecutor’s office. In April 2024, two women reported attacks that occurred in the same region, in 1987. Facts which, according to Margaux Mathieu, Dino Scala’s lawyer, could not necessarily concern her client. On the waves of RTLCommander Franck Martins, former head of the brigade that arrested the Sambre rapist, qualified this theory: “Our point of view as police officers was to make a connection between sexual crimes which could be attributed to Dino Scala, and it is in this sense that we ask him if he admits to having committed these facts. But the idea of saying that the judicial police would have wanted to blame all the rapes in Val de Sambre on Dino Scala, that’s not serious. It would never occur to my colleagues to work in that direction.”
