Nicolas Zepeda, his deadly jealousy, and the unbearable freedom of Narumi Kurosaki – Le Monde

Nicolas Zepeda, during his trial for the murder of Narumi Kurosaki, at the Doubs Assize Court, in Besançon, on April 1, 2022. ZZIIGG In his 9 square meter room in the Besançon university residence, Narumi Kurosaki holds the world at your fingertips. In this month of December 2016, the 21-year-old young woman taps alternately in Japanese and English on Line or Messenger and she chats on Skype. To her mother, her sister and all her friends from Tokyo or elsewhere, she tells of the happiness of her stay in France, where she arrived three months earlier, for a university exchange. With the group of foreign students who, like her, are taking intensive French training, she exchanges on a WhatsApp loop in this new language that she is beginning to master well. There, in addition to a handful of Japanese, a Greek, a Syrian, a Kosovar, a South Korean. They set themselves vocabulary challenges and list the places they want to visit first. Mont-Saint-Michel holds the rope. On her Facebook account, Narumi Kurosaki posts images of her walks in Franche-Comté, the dishes she tastes and the many student parties in which she participates. She sent him to hell The list of her friends keeps growing. She signed up for a ski trip, a hike, a rock climbing class, another hip-hop. On his agenda, the last week of the year is already reserved. She will go to celebrate Christmas in the south of France, in Saint-Aygulf, with her new lover, Arthur del Piccolo, a French engineering student who lives in the same residence as her. But first, she has to prepare a gala dance. In January, she will finally start her economics bachelor’s semester. From Santiago in Chile, Nicolas Zepeda follows Narumi’s happiness and unbearable freedom from a distance. He met her in Japan, two years earlier, during a stay at the University of Tsukuba and he fell madly in love with her. They lived together for a few months, he took her to visit the Andes, introduced her to his parents. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Disappearance of a Japanese student in Besançon: accused of murder, her ex-boyfriend denies the facts Their story unraveled when Narumi decided to leave for France. Nicolas Zepeda took it very badly. They broke up, made up, broke up again. He repeated to her that he loved her, that he wanted to marry and have children with her. She sent him to hell and sorted through his photos. In the trash can of her PC, she threw that of the “best couple in the world” strewn with hearts, on which she placed by her side and scratched from her diary the handwritten mention “Nicolas Birthday” on the page of December 11. And on December 1, 2016, she deleted everything about her Chilean ex-boyfriend from her Facebook wall. She now appears, smiling and in love, with Arthur. You have 77.41% of this article left to read. The following is for subscribers only.