Victorine Dartois, 18, was found dead in a stream, in Isère, in 2020. A man then went to the gendarmerie to denounce his best friend.
He doesn't change lines. The best friend of Ludovic Bertin, currently on trial in Grenoble for the murder of Victorine Dartois in 2020 in Isère, continues to accuse the 29-year-old man, on RTL, this Monday, December 2. It was he who reported Ludovic Bertin to the gendarmerie, after the disappearance of the 18-year-old young woman.
“I will be there to remind him of the facts,” he assures.
Without deviating from his line, the friend of the accused, who prefers to remain anonymous, while he is speaking for the first time on this affair, maintains “not dreading” the moment when he will have to testify at the bar. “It’s rather a moment that he should apprehend,” he judges.
His body found in a stream
Ludovic Bertin is on trial in Grenoble for the murder preceded by an attempted rape of Victorine Dartois, a young student. He is also appearing in another case, a violent rape committed in September 2018 in the Rhône on another young woman of 26 years old called “Vicky”.
The young student had disappeared while returning home to Villefontaine, in Isère. His body had been found in a stream, his jeans removed. Arrested three weeks later, Ludovic Bertin, who already had around ten convictions on his criminal record, admitted to the murder of Victorine Dartois while denying having attempted to rape her.
-The trial, which began on November 25, continues this week. This Monday, the accused's best friend will deliver his version of the facts.
“He intended to rape her”
According to Ludovic Bertin's best friend, the version that the latter presents to the courts does not hold up. “It's not at all the one he gave me. He told me that he intended to rape her, and that, in the end, in a surge of conscience, he didn't did it and killed her.”
“Someone who turns off his phone, who leaves his house without his car so as not to be spotted, and who returns after killing a girl while leaving her undressed, for me, it's someone who left in hunting”, he still maintains.
“I have always had one foot in good and one foot in evil,” declared the accused on the stand, recognizing an “indescribable” act and promising “maximum answers and explanations to the Dartois family” .
The decision of the Isère Assize Court is expected on December 6. Ludovic Bertin faces life imprisonment.
