Overview
- Judges approved submitting a faint unknown DNA trace from Kurosaki’s pillow to the national genetic database at the request of Nicolas Zepeda’s lawyers.
- Other defense bids for added inquiries were denied, including a renewed request to Facebook for IP data tied to messages sent after Kurosaki vanished.
- The database check will proceed alongside hearings without altering the two-week trial schedule, the court said.
- Prosecutors continue to argue a premeditated killing based on converging phone and GPS data, rental-car movements, purchases of combustible, matches and a bleach sprayer, and a TGV ticket in Kurosaki’s name that was never used.
- Zepeda, extradited from Chile and twice convicted before those verdicts were annulled, again pleaded not guilty in Lyon as Kurosaki’s body remains missing.