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Narumi case: the dismissal of the Chilean Nicolas Zepeda before the assizes confirmed

2021-05-22T07:57:01.173Z


The Besançon Court of Appeal confirmed on Wednesday the referral to the assizes of Chilean Nicolas Zepeda, suspected of having murdered in 2016 in ...


The Besançon Court of Appeal confirmed on Wednesday the referral to the assizes of Chilean Nicolas Zepeda, suspected of having murdered in 2016 in Besançon Narumi Kurosaki, a 21-year-old Japanese student whose body has never been found.

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The investigative chamber of the Besançon Court of Appeal confirmed the indictment before the Doubs Assize Court of the 29-year-old Chilean for assassination, a judicial source told AFP. The trial, initially planned for the end of 2021, could be postponed to 2022 due to this request. Nicolas Zepeda, who has always claimed his innocence in the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, had contested in early April during a closed hearing before the court, his indictment, considering it "

unjustified

".

In January, the public prosecutor of Besançon, Etienne Manteaux, requested the referral of the suspect to the Doubs Assize Court, relying on "a

great deal of technical data

" (telephony, geolocation of the suspect's rental vehicle, purchases by bank card ...) and on "

testimonies of relatives

" of the suspect coming to fault his version. Nicolas Zepeda faces life imprisonment at the end of a trial which must be held within one year after the final referral to the Assize Court.

Coming from a modest Japanese family, Narumi Kurosaki disappeared in December 2016, while she was studying for a year in Besançon. Nicolas Zepeda, her former boyfriend whom she had met in 2014 in Japan, admitted having spent part of the night from December 4 to 5, 2016 with her in the bedroom of the Besançon campus where she was staying, but claims to have it left in perfect health. That night, several students heard "

howls of terror, screams

" but no one notified the police. Despite extensive research, his body has never been found.

Source: lefigaro

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