A 21-year-old Italian student “was transferred to Turin on November 18”, suspected of having killed his 22-year-old French girlfriend, found stabbed in April in Val d’Aosta, his lawyer, lawyer Pedro Andujar, said on Tuesday , confirming information from the regional daily Progress. “He has Italian lawyers, he will be tried there for the facts of the death of his partner” by the country’s judicial authorities, he added.
The body of the young woman was found by walkers on April 5 in an abandoned church in the village of La Salle, in northern Italy. He had numerous marks of stab wounds.
Her companion, who crossed the France-Italy border with her on March 25, was arrested in Lyon five days after the discovery of the body. Before transferring him to Italy, French justice had wanted to try him for domestic violence prior to the murder.
Before being killed, she had filed a complaint against her companion for violence
Bruises, broken nose, threats, kidnapping: before being killed, the young model from the suburbs of Lyon had filed a complaint in 2023 and 2024 against her partner for violence.
During his trial in May in Grenoble, he proclaimed his innocence, denying being “an aggressive or dangerous person”, but he was sentenced to six months in prison. He appealed the judgment, which was confirmed by the Grenoble Court of Appeal “around ten days ago”, according to Master Pedro Andujar. Detained in Varces, in Isère, he was still the subject of proceedings in Lyon for other acts of violence against a third person, but was finally handed over to Italy before being tried.
According to official data, some 271,000 victims of domestic violence (85% women) were recorded by the police in 2023.
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