Alexandre Verdure, a former border worker sentenced in September by the Jura Assize Court of Appeal to 30 years imprisonment for the savage murder in 2016 of a young Romanian prostitute in Switzerland, will appeal to the Supreme Court, said Monday. October 18 his lawyer.
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The 34-year-old man, who has always claimed his innocence, has decided to appeal to the Supreme Court, Sylvain Cormier told AFP, confirming information from the newspaper
Le Progrès
.
This former security guard, who lived in Mouthe (Doubs) with his partner and his son at the time of the facts, had been sentenced at first instance to 20 years of criminal imprisonment.
His sentence was increased on appeal.
26 stab wounds
He has always maintained that he did not kill Mihaela Miloiu, 18, with whom he had a paid relationship on the night of November 29-30, 2016 in Sullens, Switzerland.
Alexandre Verdure, on the other hand, admitted to having transported his body to abandon it in the forest of Frasnois (Jura), in France.
According to his version, he would have acted under the threat of the young woman's pimps.
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Mihaela Miloiu, a Romanian teenager who fell under the influence 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, was discovered on December 15, 2016 in the forest of Frasnois (Jura). All the bones in her face were shattered, making her unrecognizable.
Almost a year after his death, two French and Swiss gendarmes had finally made the connection with an identity card in the name of Mihaela Miloiu found in Sullens, near traces of blood.
They 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 to treat a wound to a hand.
