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Violence, control and seasons in Méribel: accused of having stabbed to death Valentin Delobel, his partner in front of the assizes

2024-02-17T11:11:14.585Z

Highlights: The trial of Kelly L., 27, opens on February 19. She is accused of having stabbed to death Valentin Delobel, his partner in front of the assizes. The couple was living in a mobile home in Isère when yet another altercation, fatal for the young man, broke out. “I didn’t think it was going to pierce so easily,” she later explained to investigators, pleading self-defense. ‘We had lived together every day for two years. I will miss him for the rest of my life.’


STORY - The seasonal couple was living in a mobile home in Isère when yet another altercation, fatal for the young man, broke out. The trial of his partner, Kelly L., 27, opens on February 19. She faces life imprisonment.


Panicked, Kelly L. runs, barefoot and in panties, to meet the police who are approaching on the lawn.

His body is stained with blood.

A handful of minutes earlier, this night of May 18, 2020, in the isolated mobile home they live in with Valentin Delobel in Sainte-Marie du Mont (Isère), the young woman then aged 24 stabbed her companion in full chest, during a violent quarrel.

He lies in a pool of blood.

“I didn’t think it was going to pierce so easily

,” she later explained to investigators, pleading self-defense.

“We had lived together every day for two years.

I will miss him for the rest of my life.”

How did Kelly L. end up using a steak knife to kill her companion?

Was Valentin Delobel, this 102 kg colossus, a

“beaten man”

by the slender young woman of 1m56, as several people around them claim?

And this one, a faceted manipulator?

This is what…

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Source: lefigaro

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