Vincenzo Aiutino

Vincenzo Aiutino (born March 10, 1970, in Zofingen, Switzerland) is a Swiss-born French serial killer nicknamed "The man with the fifty affairs". Convicted of three murders which occurred in the Longwy commune, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on March 6, 1998, plus 18 years of security period (which does not allow him to apply for parole).

Biography

Vincenzo Aiutino was born on March 11, 1970, in Switzerland. His father, an Italian mason from Sicily, was already married, and paid no attention to his son. The family then moved to Belgium.^[1]

In 1975 he witnessed his father raping his 7-year-old sister.

In 1985, while working at a construction site, he exposed himself to a woman. He was immediately fired and put in a psychiatric institution. The following year he abandoned his schooling without any qualifications.

As a teenager, he decided to obey his instincts without any restraint. Condemned for indecent assault towards four women in Longwy, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison, plus one year on a farm. While in custody, on July 1990, he married Marie-Antoinette Calla, a divorced woman with a young boy.^[2]

Crimes and investigation

On August 6, 1991, a 20-year-old commercial attaché, Isabelle Le Nénan, left her colleague from the temporary work agency "Bis" in Longwy-Haut to go eat with a friend. As 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 her job site on the pretence of helping him carry a heavy object. There, he exposed himself and tried to rape her. On October 20, two hunters discovered a naked body in the woods of Turpange in an advanced state of decomposition. The autopsy of the Le Nénan, identified mainly by the jewelry she had worn, revealed that she died of skull fracture following a blow carried out with 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 in the same way. He led her to the cellar on his building site, where he raped her, then strangled and finished her off by hitting her with an iron rod. Initially considering the possibility of a suicide or a runaway, the police gradually tilted towards a sexual crime. They examined the files of sex offenders in the region and noted four men, one of whom was Aiutino, a mason who worked at a construction site near the hypermarket. On December 2, inspectors from SRPJ Nancy questioned Aiutino, but due to lack of evidence were forced to release him after 10 hours of custody. On February 25, 1992, Aiutino was repairing a tire for the car of Bernadette Bour, a 40-year-old medical visitor. He offered her to wash her dirty hands, for which Bour needed to go to her basement. Aiutino followed her down there, where he tried to rape Bour before beating her to death with an iron bar. He disposed of the body in Allondrelle-la-Malmaison. The disappearance of Bour took place near Aiutino's home on Joseph Labbé Street, and for this police decided to contact him. However, in the meantime, Aiutino had already fled.

It was the Belgian police who later arrested him at his father's house in Aubange. Aiutino initially confessed fully to his crimes, but then retracted his confessions and accused his father Domenico, thus delaying his extradition to France, where the security penalties were more severe. Extradited to France in 1993, he then accused his brother of the three murders.

List of victims

Trial and conviction

On March 2, 1998, Vincenzo Aiutino was tried before the cour d'assises of Meurthe-et-Moselle in Nancy. The psychiatric experts diagnosed him as a very troubled personality and an incurable psychopath, but still responsible for his actions.

Aiutino only admitted to the murder of Bour. On March 6, 1998, Aiutino was sentenced to life imprisonment with an indefinite term of 18 years. Having previously served 5 years of detention with possible release in 2011, it was mistakengly rumoured that he was released at the time.^[3]

In November 1998, Aiutino rampaged in the Nancy prison, assaulting several supervisors in the process. He was given an additional five months in prison for this offence.^[4]

References

Press articles

• "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.

TV documentaries

• "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.

Radio show

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

See also