Police want DNA from 527 in school rape case

French police demanded that male students and staff at a school in western France — 527 people in total — give DNA samples as they searched for the assailant who raped a teenage girl.

The DNA dragnet started in La Rochelle, and prosecutor Isabelle Pagenelle said so far no one had refused.

She had warned that anyone who decided not to give a DNA sample would be considered a suspect and could be taken into custody.