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UP FRONTFriday 15 January 2016 over Alps avalanche
Lawyer: Suspect left Florence victim alive after fight PARIS (AP) — A French
prosecutor says the
TRISHA THOMAS violent they alone could drunk and had been high punching Olsen in the neck teacher who accompa-
NICOLE WINFIELD have killed her, Creazzo on cocaine, his lawyer An- and then pushing her to nied high school students
Associated Press said. She was subsequently tonio Voce told The Asso- the ground, where she hit swept away by a deadly
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Ital- strangled, apparently with ciated Press. But Diaw de- her head, Voce said. avalanche in the French
ian prosecutors on Thurs- a cord or rope. Olsen’s nied strangling her, left her Diaw helped her to the Alps is suspected of invol-
day laid out evidence naked body was discov- alive on her bed and never bed and left. “He felt taken untary manslaughter.
collected against a key ered the following day by intended to kill her, Voce advantage of,” Voce said. Prosecutor Jean-Yves Co-
suspect in the death of her Italian boyfriend, who said. “She was still alive when quillat in the eastern city
an American woman who of Grenoble, near the
was strangled and suffered Walter Olsen, from left, father of Ashley Olsen, the American woman found dead in her Florence Alps, said the teacher is
deadly head trauma in her apartment, accompanied by two unidentified women and lawyer Annamaria Gallo, right, arrive being questioned by po-
Florence apartment: They at the morgue in Florence, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. Prosecutors said Thursday that Olsen had lice at a local hospital
said a Senegalese man been brutally beaten and strangled by a Senegalese man she had just met at a disco. He was where he is treated for in-
she met at a disco had left detained after authorities received “decisive” DNA evidence from a condom and cigarette butt juries from the avalanche.
“decisive” DNA traces on and after he was found using her cell phone. According to initial re-
a condom and cigarette ports by witnesses, the
butt at her home and was (AP Photo/Fabrizio Giovannozzi) students were skiing on a
using her cellphone. ski slope that had been
Cheik Tidiane Diaw, a asked the apartment’s Voce said Diaw told in- he left.” Creazzo said Diaw closed since the begin-
27-year-old who had ar- owner to let him in because vestigators that they had had offered “substantially ning of the season due
rived in Italy from Senegal he hadn’t heard from her fought when she tried to admissive” testimony in re- to lack of snow. The ski
in recent months, admit- in a few days, authorities push him out of the apart- sponse to the accusations slope was closed by a
ted under questioning that have said. Diaw acknowl- ment fearing her boyfriend during a preliminary inter- 50-meter long (164 feet)
he and Ashley Olsen, 35, edged under questioning would be arriving. After rogation that lasted until and one-meter high (3.2
had fought violently after a that he and Olsen had being pushed against the 4 a.m. Thursday. Diaw has feet) net with advisory in
night of drugs and sex but had consensual sex, were door, Diaw responded by not been charged.q different languages, and
denied strangling her and the group deliberately
never intended to kill her, stepped over it to access
his lawyer said. the slope, Coquillat said.
Diaw was arrested early “This is not inattention,”
Thursday at his brother’s the prosecutor said. “It
apartment and is being is in full knowledge that
held on suspicion of ag- the group moved into
gravated homicide, Flor- this place and this closed
ence chief prosecutor slope.” Three people were
Giuseppe Creazzo told a killed at the Deux-Alpes
news conference. Street- ski resort Wednesday. Two
mounted security cameras were among the group
and witnesses reported of 10 French high school
that Diaw and Olsen had students who were skiing
left Florence’s Montecarla with their sports teacher
nightclub in the early hours and the third was be-
of Jan. 8 and went to her lieved to be a Ukrainian
home. Once there, they skier. According to the first
had consensual sex. But questioning, some of the
sometime afterward, Ol- students on Wednesday
sen’s skull was fractured in morning had asked to ski
two places with blows so on this specific slope, but
another teacher leading
France: the school trip had re-
fused because the slope
Ccourt convicts UK man in migrant girl case; no jail was closed. It is unclear
why the teacher who ac-
ELAINE GANLEY ous crime of endanger- “The French justice system He will not have to pay the companied the group
Associated Press ment and suspended the sent out a message today,” fine, but it goes on his crimi- went on the closed slope
BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, 1000-euro ($1,090) fine. he said after the verdict. nal record in France. He with the students. The
France (AP) — A British man The court room erupted in “When compassion is in the had faced a maximum pris- prosecutor said further in-
who risked being convict- cheers at the verdict. heart, compassion will win.” on term of five years and a vestigations and expertise
ed as a smuggler prevailed Rob Lawrie, 49, a former The court cited his “per- 30,000-euro ($32,000) fine. “will also seek to deter-
in court Thursday, convinc- soldier and carpet cleaner sonality” in its decision and Just before the trial, Lawrie mine the mental state of
ing judges that he acted from Leeds, had been help- said the far less serious con- appeared with the girl in his the teacher and his ability
with his heart when he tried ing migrants as a volunteer viction served as a “warn- arms at a news conference to supervise a group.”
to deliver a four-year-old when he was caught Oct. ing.” in northern France, plead- Coquillat noted that a
Afghan girl from a squalid 24 by French border police Lawrie reiterated numer- ing for understanding. large amount of snow
migrant camp in France to with Bahar Ahmadi tucked ous times during the three- “What you’re looking at had fallen on the resort
family members in Britain. away with her teddy bear hour trial that his actions here is a waste of life. She’s on the previous days and
The three-judge panel in a cache in his van. He were “irrational” and “very living in a refugee camp,” that many skiers, “proba-
threw out the smuggling has since gained a fan club stupid” and guided by fa- Lawrie told reporters as Ba- bly several hundred,” had
charge — which carried a on Facebook and among tigue and emotions. But har smiled timidly for the skied on the closed slope
penalty of up to five years volunteers like himself who he stressed the plight of cameras. “People call it on Wednesday.q
in prison — convicting him are helping refugees and migrants cast away in the smuggling ... I was rescuing
instead of the far less griev- other migrants. camps in northern France. the little girl.” q
