Vincenzo Aiutino

Vincenzo Aiutino was born in Switzerland on March 11, 1970. Aiutino was neglected by his father, a mason from Sicily, who was married to someone else and living in Italy at the time of Aiutino's birth.[1] Later, the family moved to Belgium.[2] In 1975, Aiutino witnessed his father raping his 7-year-old sister, which may have profoundly impacted his understanding of sexuality.

Aiutino was fired from his job and admitted to a psychiatric institution in 1985 after exposing himself to a woman while working at a construction site in Belgium. In 1986, he abandoned his studies and left school. As a teenager, Aiutino's criminal sexual impulses grew more pronounced. At the age of 18, he was charged with sexual assault of a minor, and at 19, imprisoned for robbery with violence.[3]

In July 1990,[4] he married Marie-Antoinette Calla, a divorcée with a young son.

On August 6, 1991, a 20-year-old commercial attaché, Isabelle Le Nénan, left a colleague in Longwy-Haut to dine with a friend. Once she reached the parking lot of the Auchan hypermarket in Mont-Saint-Martin, she was approached by an unknown man, who lured her back to a construction site under the pretense of helping him carry a heavy object. There, Aiutino exposed himself and tried to rape her. A few months later, two hunters discovered a nude body in the woods of Turpange in an advanced state of decomposition. The autopsy of the Le Nénan, identified primarily by the jewelry on her corpse, revealed that she died of a skull fracture from a blow by an iron bar.

On September 13, 1991, Isabelle Christophe, a 21-year-old cashier at the Auchan hypermarket in Mont-Saint-Martin, was also approached by Aiutino. He led her to the cellar on his building site under the same pretense of helping him lift a heavy object, where he raped, strangled, and murdered her by beating her with an iron rod. While the murder was originally considered a possible suicide by a runaway, police soon began investigating the death as a sexual crime after reviewing the files of sex offenders in the region. This led them to investigating four men, one of whom was Aiutino, who at the time worked as a mason at a construction site near the hypermarket. On December 2, 1991, inspectors from the regional police in Nancy questioned him, but due to a lack of evidence, they released him after 10 hours in custody.

On February 25, 1992, Aiutino punctured the tire of Bernadette Bour, a medical sales representative of 40 years, and was helping her repair it. Aiutino then offered Bernadette a place to wash her hands, which allowed him to lead her to the basement on the premise. Aiutino followed her, attempted to rape Bour, and then beat her to death with an iron rod. He disposed of her body in Allondrelle-la-Malmaison near his home on Joseph Labbé street. Police did not immediately investigate the crime, enabling Aiutino to flee.

The Belgian police later arrested Aiutino at his father's house in Aubange. Aiutino initially confessed to the crimes, but then retracted his confession and accused his father, Domenico. This delayed Aiutino's extradition to France, where penalties were more severe. Aiutino was finally extradited to France in 1993, where he then accused his brother of the three murders.

On March 2, 1998, Aiutino was tried before the cour d'assises of Meurthe-et-Moselle in Nancy. Psychiatric experts diagnosed him as an incurable psychopath and fully responsible for his actions. Aiutino confessed only to the murder of Bour and was sentenced to life imprisonment on March 6, 1998, with a minimum term of 18 years. By the end of the trial, he served five years of detention with a possible release in 2011. In 2011, it was rumored that he was released, which was proven incorrect.[5]

Aiutino assaulted several supervisors in Nancy Prison in November 1998. Consequently, he was sentenced to an additional five months for these crimes.[6]

• "Triple murderer" Article published on February 29, 1992, in L'Humanité.
• "Relief in the country after murderer of three young Longwy women arrested in Aubange: an Italian who will be extradited" Article by Annie Gaspard published February 29, 1992 in Le Soir.
• "Perpetuity for Aiutino" Article by Marcel Gay published March 6, 1998 in L'Est républicain.
• "Vincenzo Aiutino, I still dream of him!" Article by Mr. Durant published on September 14, 2011, in Sud Presse.

• "Vincenzo Aiutino, the man with 50 affairs" in February 2010 and May 2011 in Get the Accused presented by Christophe Hondelatte on France 2.
• "Vincenzo Aiutino case: the missing of Longwy" (first report) on March 10, 2018, in Chroniques criminelles on TFX.

• "The case of Vincenzo Aiutino" February 20, 2018 in The Double Hour of Jacques Pradel on RTL.