Toulouse: Jean-Baptiste Rambla waives a second trial
Sentenced last year to life imprisonment for the murder of Cintia, slaughtered in July 2017 in Toulouse, Jean-Baptiste Rambla has just renounced his appeal scheduled in January for the assizes of Tarn-et-Garonne.
Jean-Baptiste Rambla, 54, will not return to his judges, those of the Assize Court of Tarn-et-Garonne who were to retry him in January. He gave up his appeal. “This decision took a long time for him to take but it is important, underlines his lawyer Me Frédéric David. Avoiding a second trial is to avoid an additional sentence for the family of Cintia, his victim. He became aware of it. This journey will allow this family to go through their bereavement without the pain of a call. ” A renunciation that Me Simon Cohen, lawyer for the Citia family considers “realistic”. “It seemed unlikely that the analysis of the facts and the sentence would be different on appeal. Above all, it may be a sign of a beginning of awareness. And this awareness, I still have it. said, is the first step towards reintegration. ”
Jean-Baptiste Rambla was sentenced in December 2020 by the Assize Court of Haute-Garonne to life imprisonment, with 22 years of security. It was the second time that this man appeared before the jurors of a criminal court after his conviction in 2008 to 18 years of imprisonment for the murder of his boss. In July 2017 in Toulouse, he killed Cintia, a pretty 21-year-old young woman he had passed in the street. A murder a few days before the end of his conditional sentence and the possibility, for him, of returning to Marseille.
Marseille, the city where this man grew up. He was 6 years old when his sister Maria-Dollores was kidnapped by Christian Ranucci in June 1974. Two years later Christian Ranucci was guillotined. This execution, not the last in France, will be taken up by the abolitionists in particular through the book “Le pull-over rouge” by Gilles Perrault who defends, often far from the reality of the case, the innocence of Christian Ranucci.
The kidnapping and death of his hyper-publicized sister, then “The Red Sweater”, will haunt the Rambla family. Jean-Baptiste Rambla spoke about it a lot during his trial in Toulouse, as he had already done 12 years earlier before the court of Bouches-du-Rhône. The publication of two new books, including one written by his lawyers Me Joly and David, and the broadcast of a series on Canal + which demystifies “The red pullover” have perhaps enabled Jean-Baptiste Rambla to find, finally, a form of appeasement.