“The Lunimbu family will be able to mourn, which seems legitimate to me.” Frédéric David, lawyer for Jean-Baptiste Rambla, sentenced a year ago in Toulouse for the savage murder of Cintia Lunimbu, indicates that his client finally “gives up appealing” and “that an order has just been taken in this sense ”, confirming information from France Bleu Occitanie.
The second trial was to open on January 10 in Montauban. By abandoning the procedure, Jean-Baptiste Rambla therefore accepts his life sentence, with 22 years of security, for having killed the young cleaning lady, whom he did not know, after having surprised her at home one day in July. 2017. It also puts an end to a case with extraordinary springs. Because Jean-Baptiste Rambla is also the brother of Marie-Dolorès Rambla, the little girl kidnapped and killed in Marseille in 1974, in the so-called red sweater or Ranucci affair. His little sister was abducted in front of his eyes. And it is by this trauma, that the accused partly explained his passage to the act and his paranoid state. For Cintia Lunimbu but also for a first murder, that of Corinne Beidl, committed in 2004.
A calmed murderer
“I think the Canal + series [un docu fiction] Dolores or the curse of the red sweater and the book that we wrote with my colleague Aurélie Joly was able to appease him, ”adds Frédéric David.
The Ranucci affair revisited in the light of the facts, decades after the passionate debate on the death penalty that it had sparked, was able to calm the “victim delirium” of Jean-Baptiste Rambla.