The Advocate General on Friday requested 30 years of criminal imprisonment against Alexandre Verdure, a former frontier worker who had been sentenced at first instance to 20 years in prison for the savage murder of a Romanian prostitute in 2016. La court was to deliver its verdict in the evening.
Alexandre Verdure maintained his innocence during the three days of the appeal trial, although he admits having transported the body of the victim from Sullens, in Switzerland, to abandon it in a forest in Jura, on the French side of the border. .
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According to his version, he had just had a paid sex with Mihaela Miloiu, 18, on the night of November 29 to 30, 2016 in Sullens, when two men arrived. One would have threatened him while the other killed the young woman. The two men then allegedly ordered him to "
do whatever is necessary
" if he did not want them to attack his family.
"
Nothing allows to accredit the thesis of a murder perpetrated by pimps and, on the contrary, everything accuses Alexandre Verdure
", argued the Advocate General, Lionel Pascal, who requested the maximum penalty incurred for "
intentional homicide
" .
The investigations of the research section of Besançon in fact did not allow to find any material element allowing to question the pimping network, which was however on wiretaps as part of an investigation carried out by the Swiss police.
26 stab wounds
A single DNA was found on the body of the victim, as well as on the place where the corpse was discovered, that of Alexandre Verdure.
Mihaela Miloiu, a Romanian teenager who fell under the thumb of a "
lover boy
", who had seduced her and then prostituted her on the sidewalks in Switzerland, has long remained "
the unknown of the Frasnois
".
His naked body, stabbed with 26 stab wounds, had been discovered by loggers on December 15, 2016 in the forest of Frasnois (Jura).
All the bones in her face were shattered, making her unrecognizable.
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Almost a year after her death, it was almost by chance that two French and Swiss gendarmes had finally identified the young woman.
The investigators then confused Alexandre Verdure by checking the entries in the hospitals in the area.
The thirty-something had indeed gone on November 30, 2016 to the hospital of Pontarlier (Doubs) to treat a wound to a hand.
