At Zepeda trial, a mother and three hours thirty of pain

Taeko Kurosaki has capsized the Doubs Assize Court by telling Narumi, his daughter disappeared. “Excursor Liar! He will never say the truth!” She launched young Chilien, who denies him murdered.

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For seven days, a shadow of mother, loosen in his daughter’s arms, caresses the embroidered pocket she holds tight against her bust. A translation helmet on the ears, she hides her face behind a black hair curtain and crushes her tears in a prickly immaculate cotton. Mute pain in a foreign country that she does not speak the language. In the unknown city where his daughter disappeared. At the trial of the one who is accused of murdered.

Wednesday, April 6, Taeko Kurosaki approached small steps from the bar of the Assize Court, the embroidered pouch always tight against it, his handkerchief in his hand. She lost in front of the court and the jurors. The male voice of the interpreter has translated his first words in a tone insured: “First of all, I would like to express my gratitude and apologies for the inconvenience caused, to all those who have bother to continue this case so long for my loved daughter. “

A mother, alone in the middle of the courtroom, and three hours thirty of pain.

“For more than five years, I have been psychically destroyed and I have a great mistrust of humans. I’m lying, I do not see anyone, and that’s why I lost The ease of expressing me. It may be that my speech is long, interspersed with silences, I ask you to be patient to listen to me.

– We will be, Madam, “replied the President of the Court.

Taeko Kurosaki talks about his eldest, Narumi. From the girl who, “from kindergarten, read books to those who do not know how to read,” begins the piano at 7, decides alone to learn English at the end of the elementary school and becomes “the best student of his class in college “. She’s talking about teenager who works hard to pass the entrance exam to the international high school, rises at 5 o’clock in the morning, “lightly opens the curtain of his window to the glow of dawn to revise Without spending electricity “, is selected from other high school students” to dialogue with politicians “, chooses French at 16 as a second foreign language and” covers this dream to go to France one day “. She speaks of the student who renounces the private university so coveted and joined the public, of Tsukuba “to alleviate the financial burden” of his divorced mother, multiplies the little jobs and deprived of dance lessons because behind her. , there are studies of two cadets to ensure.

“And it is alas! In this context, that she will meet Nicolas Zepeda. It was in the fall of 2014.”

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