He gave up appealing. Ludovic Bertin, sentenced to life imprisonment at the end of 2024 Apported by a twenty -year security period for the murder of Victorine Dartois in Isère In 2020, finally withdrew, a judicial source said to AFP this Tuesday.
He was found guilty of having strangled and drowned Victorine Dartoisan 18 -year -old student, After trying to rape heron December 6, 2024 in Grenoble, but also to have violated another young woman in 2018.
He had announced to appeal in the wake of his conviction. His withdrawal of this call was made “several months ago,” said general lawyer Françoise Benezech, to AFP, confirming information from the newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré.
Denounced by his best friend
Victorine Dartois, BTS Communication student, disappeared on September 26, 2020 while she was back at the family home in Villefontaine, about thirty kilometers south-east of Lyon, after an afternoon of shopping with friends.
His body was found in a stream less than 48 hours later, his jeans abandoned nearby. The autopsy established that it had been strangled and drowned.
Arrested three weeks later following a denunciation by his best friend, Ludovic Bertin, who had a dozen convictions to his criminal record, recognized the murder of Victorine. On the other hand, he always fiercely denied having tried to violate her, justifying his gesture by a “argument” during their fortuitous meeting and by disorders linked to his addiction to cocaine.
