Nicolas Zepeda, on trial for two weeks in Besançon for the assassination of his Japanese ex-girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki in 2016, has a “will to dominate” and an “intolerance of loss of power“, testified Friday, April 8 the experts.
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The psychiatrist Jean Cantarino, on the other hand, concluded before the Doubs Assize Court that the accused did not present “psychiatric dangerousness“. According to him, Nicolas Zepeda has “no mental or psychological illness“. According to Jean Cantarino, the accused, whose intelligence is above average, “has a very complex way of answering sometimes simple questions“. This determines “a personality that tends to manipulate others“. “And if it’s damaged it can give violent reactions“, according to him.
His psychologist colleague, Clara Cavignaux, did not note “recurrence risk factors“: no impulsiveness, no aggressiveness, no family problems, apart from “his probable lack of empathy“. But she notes in him adesire to control the other», associated with «lack of consideration of the will of others“, personality traits noted by the public prosecutor and the lawyers for the civil parties during the nine days of hearings that have passed.
Loss of control
Nicolas Zepeda, who has denied the facts since the start of the trial, had “strong demands on Narumi» and when the Japanese student left for France, he had a «very strong feeling of lack of respect and loss of control“says the psychologist. According to the prosecution, he could not bear the break with Narumi Kurosaki, who had left him shortly after arriving in France for his studies.
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He traveled to Besançon from Chile to find her and killed her on the night of December 4-5, 2016.Could he bear to have traveled so many kilometers to see Narumi again and for her to say to him: “I’m not the 21 year old kid you knew anymore, I have a new boyfriend and I don’t want you anymore“”, asked a lawyer for the civil parties, Me Randall Schwerdorffer, to the psychologist. “If that had been the case, it would have been very difficult to tolerate.she replied. And the Advocate General, Étienne Manteaux, noted that the maximum control one can have over an individual, “it’s his life…»
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