France court orders retrial of Chilean over alleged murder of ex-girlfriend

In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, 26 February, the Court of Cassation quashed and quashed the decision of the Court of Assizes of Haute-Saône, which had sentenced the young Chilean on appeal in December 2023 to 28 years' imprisonment, and he remained in prison.

As “a small judicial earthquake” the French media called Le Figaro the ruling issued this Wednesday by the Court of Cassation of France. The court overturned the sentence of 28 years in prison on the Chilean Nicolás Zepeda (34), which was handed down in December 2023 by the Court of Alto Saona of the city of Besanzón. The young man is charged with the murder of his former partner, the young Japanese Narumi Kurosaki (21), whose trail was lost alm…

France court orders retrial of Chilean over alleged murder of ex-girlfriend

France's top court on Wednesday ordered a retrial of a Chilean accused of killing his Japanese ex-girlfriend in the eastern city of Besancon in 2016, ruling that investigators had withheld evidence from his defence team.A lower court had sentenced Nicolas Zepeda in April 2022 to 28 years for killing Narumi Kurosaki, then aged 21, in December 2016.An appeals court upheld that verdict in December 2023.The Court of Cassation, the highest appeals co…

On Wednesday, the Court of Cassation quashed the conviction of Nicolas Zepeda for the assassination of Narumi Kurosaki in 2016. The 34-year-old Chilean was sentenced to 28 years' imprisonment on appeal in December 2023. He always denied having killed his former Japanese girlfriend. - Assassination of student Narumi Kurosaki: towards a third trial for Chilean Nicolas Zepeda (Police, justice and other facts). TF1 INFO

During the afternoon of today's Wednesday, February 26, a shocking news was released about the Narumi case. This is the defendant Nicolás Zepeda, who was overturned after a ruling in French justice. Let us remember that the accused was charged with the crime of the young Japanese girl and had been sentenced to 28 years in prison. After this, the defendant's defense appealed and managed to annul the sentence. For this fact, there will be a third …