Her name was Cintia.
She was born on February 10, 1996 in Angola.
She lived in Toulouse, had a boyfriend and was employed in a cleaning company.
On July 21, 2017, she stopped giving signs of life.
Six days later, firefighters discovered her bloodied body in her apartment ...
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From Monday, December 14, Jean-Baptiste Rambla is on trial in Toulouse for the murder of the young woman.
Man is not unknown to justice.
He was sentenced to 18 years in prison in October 2008 for the murder of his employer and mistress.
He was granted parole in February 2016.
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The accused is also the brother of Marie-Dolorès Rambla, who disappeared and killed in 1974. Two years later, Christian Ranucci was sentenced to death and executed for this crime.
This affair has haunted Jean-Baptiste Rambla since his childhood, and the shadow of Christian Ranucci should once again hover over the Assize Court of Haute-Garonne.
“Unheard of” violence
Jean-Baptiste Rambla admitted having entered the Cintia building - which he did not know - on July 21, 2017, knocking on the doors of the fourth floor, entering the young woman who had opened the door to him and killing him several times. punches in the face.
Later, he allegedly struck her fatally with a cutter.
Cintia had
"no way to escape this completely unpredictable attack
,
"
notes the investigating judge in charge of the case in her order of indictment.
Identified thanks to his DNA found at the crime scene, Jean-Baptiste Rambla was arrested on August 9, 2017 in the town of Six-Fours-les-Plages (Var).
Why this outburst of
“incredible”
violence
?
"Despite his attempts at explanations, nothing can explain this passage very clearly, the real motivation of Jean-Baptiste Rambla still remains unknown"
, underlines the magistrate instructor.
There will be the whole stake of the trial, scheduled until Friday, December 18.