The perpetuity criminal imprisonment was required on Monday against the young Chile accused of the assassination of his ex-girlfriend, Narumi Kurosaki. His lawyer, Jacqueline Laffont, tried to say what his client “does not want or can not say”.
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By depositing his handwritten packet on the desk installed in the courtroom, Monday, April 11, in the Doubs Court of Assizes, Jacqueline Laffont knows, and she says, that she will face “the most advocacy difficult to [her] life “. Just before his speech, the Advocate General Etienne Coats required the perpetual criminal imprisonment against his client, Nicolas Zepeda, for the murder of Narumi Kurosaki.
No eloquence, no sentences, but a methodical reminder of the pile of evidence debated for eight days. “In this case, everything brings everything back to Nicolas Zepeda and exclusively to him,” he said before providing an answer to each of the questions that the court and the jurors will carry, Tuesday, in their deliberations, “Where? When? How? By whom? “The Japanese 21-year-old student was killed, with the aggravating circumstance of premeditation and murder by an ex-spouse.
Still before, there was the double voice of the pleadings of civil parties. The scoring formulas of M e Randall Schwerdorffer, lawyer of the last boyfriend of Narumi Kurosaki, against an accused who has multiplied the “manipulations to hide before, during and after his crime of coolness”, in the hope of escaping French justice. “What he asks you is not the acquittal, it was impunity!” He launched.
“Defense on a vertiginous ridge”
The words worn by M e Sylvie Galley, in the name of the mother and sister of Narumi Kurosaki, the fair note with which she had told the last four days of the happy student, sparkling, in love, and ignorant of the fatal countdown counted by his ex-boyfriend and the black portrait that she had erected, mirrored, of a man with mortiferous jealousy, obsessive, fierce to resume costs the ” control “of the one who had dared to get rid of him.
And there was finally, on the M e Galley, the mild advocacy offered to the eyes by one of the delicate origamis that the sister of Narumi has made since the beginning of the trial.
It’s the sister and the mother of Narumi Kurosaki that M e laffont dedicates her first words. “Their testimony and the weight of their pain do not leave me.” The voice says the discomfort, who hesitates and butte. By entering this file, the lawyer has traded. Faced with the Court and Jurors, she has a client to defend, a mandate to respect and a reputation to preserve. Three irreconcilable imperatives, both they are opposed.
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