This Thursday, the Chilean Nicolás Zepeda, who is accused of the murder of his ex-girlfriend of Japanese nationality, Narumi Kurosaki, spoke in the first interrogation in the trial in France about his last meeting with the young woman: “It was nice.” Also, he said that she was alive when he left her. This process will last until April 12, according to the official program of the trial.
Nicolás Zepeda (31), is a commercial engineer and is accused of having ended the life of Kurosaki, who was 21 years old at the time. The young woman disappeared on December 4, 2016 and her body was never found. For these charges, he could face life in prison.
On this third day, the defendant was subjected to a first interrogation about the events between December 4 and 6, 2016, when he met his ex-partner in Besançon, in eastern France, where the young woman was studying the language shortly before it disappeared.
According to Zepeda, it was “a nice reunion” because they were both “two people who wanted to talk to each other.”
According to Zepeda’s investigation and account, the two had dinner together on the night of December 4 at “La Table de Gustave”, a restaurant 25 kilometers south of Besançon, and then went to the young woman’s room in a university residence. , where they intimated. They would have remained there until the early morning of December 6, when he left her room, leaving her in perfect health, according to the defendant.
“There is a moment of affection, of affection (…), a chain of feelings that I think is normal,” Zepeda declared.
According to his statement, he and the young woman had sexual relations on two occasions and “before each sexual relationship”, both took a shower. However, the prosecutor, Etienne Manteaux, pointed out that when the police raided the hotel room, “there was no Narumi towel in the room.”
“I can’t know what happened after I left,” the defendant simply replied. In addition, when he was consulted by lawyer Sylvie Galley, who represents Kurosaki’s family, if he was lying, Zepeda replied: “I do not intend to lie, I always try to do the right thing.”
When the other lawyer for the civil party, Randall Schwerdorffer, asked him why he had not contacted the Japanese woman again after December 6, after spending “30 hours of passion” with her, the defendant said that “if you want Insinuating that I didn’t care (for Kurosaki), you’re wrong.”
This Thursday afternoon, Zepeda insisted again that the breakup of both, which occurred in the fall of 2016, had been “gradual.” This is a different view from the one presented this Tuesday morning by several witnesses at the trial, who assured that Kurosaki was “afraid” of the Chilean and that “the separation did not go well.”
“After they broke up, she was afraid of him,” because Zepeda controlled his ex-girlfriend on Facebook, Kaori Nishida, a 27-year-old civil servant who studied with the young woman at the Center for Applied Languages (CLA) in Besançon, in eastern France, in 2016, declared via videoconference from Tokyo.
According to the witness, during a party organized by the students at the end of November 2016, the victim said that Zepeda “had hacked into his Facebook account.”
Another companion of Kurosaki at that time, Miharu Kimura, also noted in her statement that the young woman “had problems” because the accused continued to feel a “very persistent” “attachment” to her and that he had told her that “he was going to come see her ” to France.