What if you could help the police solve Europe’s most mysterious cold cases? That’s the challenge taken up by ‘Operation Identify Me’, which calls on the general public to help identify the bodies of women found in France and across Europe. Forty-six cases have been reopened by Interpol and shared online in the hope of gathering new information about these unsolved crimes.
We gained exceptional access to the French police officers investigating these unsolved cases. Thanks to Identify Me, ‘The Woman with the Flower Tattoo’ was able to regain her identity more than 30 years after her murder.
In Nantes, investigations into ‘The Girl with the 10 Pence Coin’ have been reopened. The information made public also allows volunteers from AVANE, the ‘Association for Assistance to Victims of Unsolved Crimes’, to help the police and give hope to the families of these forgotten victims.
If the DNA profiles of just 3% of the population are on a database, you can find anyone. But what are the implications of this? Who should have access to these databases? And under what circumstances?
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