BESANCON, France: Police in eastern France searched a forest on Thursday (Jan 5) for the body of a missing Japanese student as a chilling video emerged in which a man thought to be her fugitive Chilean ex-boyfriend threatens her.
Narumi Kurosaki went missing in the city of Besancon, where she had been studying French, on the night of Dec 4.
French authorities believe the 21-year-old was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, who is believed to have fled to Chile, and have issued an international warrant for his arrest.
Chile’s justice ministry said on Wednesday it was assisting the French « in the identification of certain suspects as of their latest movements », without giving further details.
In a video published by French and Japanese media, the suspect, identified as Nicolas Zepeda Contreras, threatens Kurosaki with unnamed consequences if she did not fulfil unspecified conditions.
Speaking in English in a video dating from September, he says he loves Kurosaki, whom he identifies by first name, but accuses her of doing « bad things ».
Holding up two fingers he gave her a two-week deadline until Sep 21 to meet his conditions, which he said applied « some for her whole stay in France and some, actually, forever.
