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Chilean man accused of murdering ex-girlfriend proclaims innocence yet again to French court

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Nicolas Zepeda, accused of killing Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki in eastern Besançon in December 2016, appeared on Tuesday before a criminal court in Lyon for his third trial.

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On the second day of the third trial of Nicolas Zepeda, tried for the murder of his former girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki in 2016 in Besançon, the defence obtained the opening of an additional information to compare a male DNA trace to the national DNA fingerprint file.

·Paris, France
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Nicolás Zepeda acknowledged this Thursday, on the third day of the new trial he faces in France for the disappearance and death of Narumi Kurosaki, who arrived in Besanzón with the intention of seeing her. On the third day of the trial against Nicolás Zepeda in France, he was marked by a series of questions from the court about his displacements, purchases and decisions made in the days following the disappearance of Narumi Kurosaki. According t…

Although he denied that he had killed her and that the body had never been found, the 35-year-old accused was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2022 and then to the same sentence in 2023 on appeal, but the court of cassation overturned the verdict for a procedural defect. In order to cast doubt among the [...] The Chilean article tried in Lyon for the murder of his ex-girlfriend: new research on an unknown DNA appeared first on Lyon Capitale.

The third trial for the murder of Nicolas Zepeda, held until 27 March in Lyon, accelerates this Thursday by giving the floor to multiple witnesses. As the main lines of the investigation are set, it is now necessary to approach as closely as possible the experiences of those people who, each in their own way, have been caught up in the workings of this tragedy. The Chilean, however, continues to say that he is innocent.

The third trial for the murder of Nicolas Zepeda, held until March 27 in Lyon, experienced this Thursday a major sequence, with the first block of interrogation of the accused on the facts. Pressured by the prosecution and the lawyer of civil parties, the Chilean appeared sometimes in difficulty, paining in justifying certain evolutions and contradictions of his version. The tears also sank on his face, at the time of unveiling his memories of N…

·Nancy, France
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