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Romanian convicted in Austria for murdering young French girl

2020-06-10T12:48:14.777Z


A 43-year-old Romanian truck driver, already sentenced to life in prison, was convicted on Tuesday of the murder and post-mortem rape of a French student in Austria in 2014, the Innsbruck court announced. Read also: Pas-de-Calais: a man indicted for the murder of a high school student The jurors unanimously decided on the guilt of Catalin C., more than six years after the facts. They abstained f...


A 43-year-old Romanian truck driver, already sentenced to life in prison, was convicted on Tuesday of the murder and post-mortem rape of a French student in Austria in 2014, the Innsbruck court announced.

Read also: Pas-de-Calais: a man indicted for the murder of a high school student

The jurors unanimously decided on the guilt of Catalin C., more than six years after the facts. They abstained from pronouncing an additional sentence, the German justice system having already rendered in December 2017 a verdict concerning him in another criminal case. The accused had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Lucile. The sentence is not final and he can still appeal the verdict.

Lucile Klobut, 20, from the Lyon region, was found dead on January 12, 2014 in the morning on the banks of the Inn river in Kufstein, a locality in West Tyrol where she was doing an Erasmus exchange. Austrian investigators concluded that she had been the victim of an assault the previous evening when she went to a friend's house, having been struck several times in the head with the help of an iron bar.

The police subsequently formally linked, thanks to DNA and operating similarities, between this murder and that in November 2016 of a 27-year-old jogger, Carolin Gruber, in Endingen, near Friborg , in Germany. The latter had been raped before being killed.

Cited as a witness, a German psychiatrist said " there is evidence to suggest that the accused is a classic serial killer ", likely to reoffend if released.

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Source: lefigaro

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