Without Body or Evidence, the Chilean Nicolas Zepeda Rejudged for the Murder of His Former Japanese Girlfriend

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This Tuesday began the third trial against the Chilean Nicolás Zepeda, suspected of the death of the Japanese Narumi Kurosaki. In the instance, the defense demanded that two key skills be carried out: analysis of a DNA sample and asking Facebook about the profile of the girl. Zepeda arrived to the court in Besoul in a black suit, according to the eyewitness account, as well as ensuring that he had been beaten in prison. Read also...

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The young Chilean has already been sentenced twice to 28 years in prison, in 2022 and then on appeal in 2023, a verdict annulled by the Court of Cassation in 2025 for a procedural defect.

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At 9.35 a.m. this Tuesday, almost a decade after the disappearance of the Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki, in the Criminal Court of the Rhone, Lyon, the third trial against the Chilean Nicolás Zepeda, ex-partner of the young woman, accused of her murder, began. Following the presentation of the facts being charged, the presiding judge, Eric Chalbos, dressed in a red robe, addressed Zepeda.“You understand what you are accused of: having premedit…

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Despite overwhelming evidence, Nicolas Zepeda has always denied having killed Narumi Kurosaki in 2016 in Besançon. Sentenced twice to twenty-eight years in prison, he has not changed his defence line.

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On March 17, 2026, Nicolas Zepeda's third trial began, accused of murdering his former girlfriend, Narumi Kurosaki, in Besançon in December 2016. In Lyon, the Chilean national will be accompanied by Mr. Cormier and Mr. Binsard, his fifth and sixth lawyers on this case.

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Two years after his conviction on appeal to 28 years in prison, the Chilean Nicolas Zepeda is retrieved this Tuesday for the murder of his former girlfriend, the Japanese Narumi Kurosaki, whose body has never been found. The accused still claims his innocence.