Confused after a meticulous and fierce investigation, a French border worker, Alexandre Verdure, was sentenced Friday to 20 years of criminal imprisonment by the Assize Court of Doubs for the
"savage"
murder
of a young Romanian prostitute, committed in 2016 in Swiss.
After three days of hearing, the court found this former security agent guilty of the murder of Mihaela Miloiu, whose naked body had been found in the communal forest of Frasnois (Jura).
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Alexandre Verdure, who was living with his wife and son in Mouthe (Doubs) at the time of the events, has always denied having killed this 18-year-old Romanian on the night of November 29 to 30, 2016 in Sullens (Switzerland).
"I do not want to take for a crime that I did not commit", he said again Friday before the court withdraws to deliberate.
According to him, he had just had a sex act with the young woman when two men appeared and killed her, before ordering him to
"do what is necessary"
to get rid of the body.
He then transported and abandoned the disfigured and martyred corpse in France.
Advocate General Etienne Manteaux, who required 30 years of imprisonment, asked the jurors to take into account
"the savagery"
with which the young woman was
"put to death" as
well as
"the disturbing personality"
of the accused .
The latter did not show
"the slightest emotion" in the
face of the fate suffered by the victim, he said, citing a
"risk of recurrence".
The magistrate endeavored to dismantle the thesis of the accused of a murder committed by the pimps: their cellphones did not
“limit”
to the same place as that of the prostitute and, according to telephone tapping, members of the network were looking for when they realized she was missing.
"Crazy look"
But above all,
"there were 15 blows to smash her head, 26 stab wounds and yet only the DNA of Mr. Verdure was found"
on the young woman, underlined Etienne Manteaux, noting the multiple lies of the 'accused.
“Their sexual intercourse may have gone badly, we know that he has difficulties with the condom.
Was he humiliated? ”
Asked the Advocate General, convinced that
“ it was in this context in any case that he killed him ”.
Of
"assumptions"
, castigated me Emmanuelle Huot, highlighting the lack of mobile
"serious"
an accused
"who for 30 years did not talk about him."
His relatives unanimously said they were
"dumbfounded"
by the accusations against him, describing a former young firefighter and reservist constable
"nice"
,
"helpful",
with
"his heart on his hand".
For Me Huot and his colleague, Me Sylvain Cormier, the pimps
"may have wanted to give her a correction because she wanted to leave".
Mihaela Miloiu's body was found on December 15, 2016 in Le Frasnois.
She was unrecognizable, her facial bones and teeth shattered from a multitude of blows.
The Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) had performed a facial reconstruction of the young woman in order to establish her 3D robot portrait.
It was finally two French and Swiss gendarmes who made the connection with an identity card in the name of Miheala Miloiu found in Sullens, near traces of blood.
A drilling in the concrete had made it possible to extract DNA, which turned out to be that of
"the unknown woman of Frasnois".
Alexandre Verdure was finally implicated after going on November 30, 2016 to Pontarlier hospital (Doubs) to have a hand treated.
Born in a
"particularly poor region"
of Romania, near Bucharest, the victim
"was betrayed by her desire for love, her desire for affection, material comfort and access to luxury"
, pleaded the lawyer of his parents, Me Jean-Baptiste Jacquenet-Poillot.
Falling in love with a "Lover boy", a pimp who had seduced her when she left college, she had followed him to Switzerland where he prostituted her, exercising a
"real hold"
over her.
"She will go from meeting a manipulator to meeting a psychopath,"
notes the council, who has no doubts:
"the last look she saw was the crazy, horrible look, by Alexandre Verdure ”.
