There will be a new Rambla trial in the years to come, in Albi or Montauban.
Jean-Baptiste Rambla appealed against his life sentence with a safety period of 22 years on December 22, five days after the verdict of the Assize Court of Haute-Garonne,
Le Figaro
learned
, confirming information from France Bleu Occitanie.
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After four days of hearing, the 53-year-old man was convicted on December 17 of savagely killing Cintia L., a 21-year-old Angolan girl, on July 21, 2017 in Toulouse.
He did not know the young woman, who was found almost beheaded in her apartment as the violence of the cutter blows that were given to her was great.
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Me Simon Cohen, the victim's parents' counsel, points out to Le
Figaro
that
"having your case re-examined is a fundamental public right of the human person"
, without wanting to speak for its clients.
For his part, Me Aurélie Joly, one of Jean-Baptiste Rambla's lawyers, claims to have
"sought to dissuade him from appealing, in relation to his family, to that of Cintia"
.
From brother of a victim to murderer
"Everyone needed to turn the page, but Jean-Baptiste Rambla remains locked in the mesh of the past, he needs to continue to make people talk about him, to make his father's fight last
,
"
continues Me Joly.
Since his childhood, the fifty-something has been haunted by the kidnapping and death of his sister Marie-Dolorès in Marseille in 1974.
Two years later, Christian Ranucci was sentenced to death and executed for this crime.
But voices were raised to proclaim his innocence, a thesis mentioned in particular in Gilles Perrault's best
-selling
book,
Le Pull-over rouge.
The Rambla family, particularly Pierre, the father of Marie-Dolorès and Jean-Baptiste, did not support him.
The Ranucci case was widely discussed at the December trial, just as it had been in 2008, when Jean-Baptiste Rambla was tried for the murder of his employer.
He was then sentenced to 18 years imprisonment.
He was released on parole in February 2016. A little over a year before Cintia's death ...
