The girl was attacked while cycling home from school. The suspect, aged between 30 and 40, smelled of alcohol and appears in the hologram as he did at the time.

The aim is to trigger the general public, spokeswoman Suzanne Lesquillier said. “The model probably won’t look exactly like the suspect from 2009 and some details might be wrong,” she said. “But we hope people will ask themselves: could this be my neighbour, my colleague, my nephew?”

Police have DNA material from the suspect but have found no matches in the national DNA database. If the hologram leads to suggestions, the police can then check the DNA against that of the men who have been named.

Police first used a hologram in 2021, leading to the arrest of a man who had raped two teenage girls in a storage room in a housing complex. He was jailed for six years.

In 2024, a second attempt involved a 3D image of a sex worker who had been murdered in Amsterdam, but without success.