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French court jails Chilean 28 years for murder of Japanese ex-girlfriend

Sylvie Galley, the lawyer for murdered Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki, speaks to the media at the Besancon courthouse on the last day of Nicolas Zepeda's trial, a Chilean man accused of murdering his Japanese ex-girlfriend in France in 2016, in Besançon, eastern France on 12 April, 2022. © AFP/Sébastien Bozon

A French court on Tuesday sentenced Nicolas Zepeda, a Chilean man, to 28 years in jail for murdering his Japanese ex-girlfriend in 2016 in eastern France, after a high-profile investigation spanning three continents.

The jury at the court in Besançon convicted Nicolas Zepeda, 31, * of murdering Narumi Kurosaki, then aged 21, in December 2016. Prosecutors had called for a life sentence.

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