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  • In July 2017, Cintia Lunimbu, a 21-year-old young woman, was murdered in her Toulouse apartment by a man she had never met.

  • The second day of the murder trial, this Tuesday in Toulouse, was marked by a long disjointed speech by the accused, Jean-Baptiste Rambla.

  • The latter especially evoked a subject which seems to focus most of his attention: the murder of his sister Marie-Dolorès, in 1974. The little girl had been kidnapped and killed in a case for which Christian Ranucci was guillotined two years later. .

A "monstrous, unspeakable, unspeakable" murder.

This is how Jean-Baptiste Rambla qualified this Tuesday the assassination in July 2017 in Toulouse of Cintia Lunimbu, 21, for which he is being tried before the assizes of Haute-Garonne.

But the 53-year-old accused continued to expand in a disjointed manner on the subject that seems to focus most of his attention: the murder of his sister Marie-Dolorès in 1974. The little girl had been kidnapped and killed in a case for which Christian Ranucci was guillotined two years later.

The Ranucci case comes back again and again

"I miss her," said Jean-Baptiste Rambla, already convicted of murder in 2008, before reoffending in 2017 after an early release.

Cintia's murder came up briefly in the middle of a long speech about the Ranucci case.

The latter would not have "originally intended" to kill his sister, said the accused, before adding: "I apologize for making the connection with Cintia.

I present my most sincere regrets to the civil party.

I understand the sadness of his parents ”.

Then he resumed his long speech: he described the release in 1978 of Gilles Perrault's book

Le pull-over rouge

, questioning Ranucci's guilt, and the “media surge” in this regard, as a “steamroller that goes. crush us ”.

“It was unbearable to see [my] sister on screen.

Losing [a sister] like that, you can't get over it, ”he continued, probably alluding to his parents.

Asked later about the cocaine he claimed to have consumed and which could have played a role in the murder of Cintia, he said: “I was far from imagining that I was going to commit monstrous, unspeakable acts again. , unspeakable ”.

“It's perverse to say that it was because of Ranucci that he killed Cintia.

How do you want parents to understand?

“, Said on the sidelines of the hearing Me Simon Cohen, the lawyer for the Lunimbu family.

The wrath of Cintia's mother

For his part, Cintia's father, Alberto Lunimbu, asked again, at the bar this time, Jean-Baptiste Rambla "why" he had killed his daughter, without obtaining an answer from the accused.

During the intervention of the father, the mother of the young woman, burst into tears, running to the box and screaming: "I'm going to kill him!"

I'll do to him what he did to Cintia!

», Before being escorted outside the room by police officers and relatives.

For the expert psychiatrist Daniel Zagury, Jean-Baptiste Rambla feels a "guilt" of having survived the death of his sister, of having left her alone with her future murderer and of having unwittingly helped those who sought to exonerate Christian Ranucci, by failing to identify the latter.

Murders and "irrational"

In this context, believes the expert, the psychic functioning of the accused can be compared to a "barrel of powder" that a "spark" can explode and lead to murders like those of Corinne Beidl and Cintia Lunimbu.

Me Frédéric David, one of the defenders of the accused, quoting the words of Doctor Zagury, regretted, alluding to the murder of Cintia, that "the court asks to explain rationally what is irrational".

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