The former 38-year-old master dog, who must also respond to sexual attacks on two of his minor cousins, incurs the perpetual criminal imprisonment before the Grenoble Court of Assizes.
Nine months after being sentenced to twenty years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of Arthur Noyer in April 2017, Nordahl Lelandais should appear again, on Monday, in front of a courtyard. This time, the former dog master, who will be 39 years on February 18, responds from the murder of Maëlys de Araujo, 8 years, on August 27, 2017 at Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère) and sexual attacks committed in July and in August 2017 on two of his minor cousins. The hearing that opens on January 31 in Grenoble and at the end of which the accused incurs the perpetuity criminal imprisonment should last three weeks.
On August 26, 2017, the little Maëlys and his family are invited to the wedding of Jennifer Cleyet Marrel’s cousin, Maëlys’s mother. The Wedding festivities continue until late at night of the 27th. More than one hundred people participate. It is around 3 o’clock in the morning that Jennifer Cleyet Marrel is worried about not seeing his daughter in the village hall. Half an hour ago, she had seen it running and playing with other children, and just before, she had seen him chat with a man she did not know. Which showed photos of his dogs to the small.
Very quickly, the family and the guests scrutinize the immediate surroundings of the village hall: the car parks, the aisles … They go to the internship of the neighboring high school, where several guests sleep. They spend in all the pieces, the hallways, the toilets … nothing. At 4 o’clock, Maësys’ mother calls the gendarmes, who arrive at 4:20 am and investigate places. In the following hours, an important device is deployed. Excavations, beaten, cynophilic teams … The sniffing dogs follow the traces, which all stop on the parking lot. The ace. Maëlys remains not found. But the investigators acquire the certainty that she was mounted in a car before disappearing. They carry out use checks, question the wedding participants, seize the exploitable video surveillance …
DNA trace in the car
On August 30, while the survey mobilizes important technical and human resources, the gendarmes present the parents of Maëlys photographs taken during the marriage by guests. On one of them, Jennifer identifies “man with dogs”. Nordahl lelandais had been invited by the groom to the aperitif, but not the meal. He had returned to the wedding at the end of the evening. From the afternoon of August 27, the gendarmes had gathered his testimony, like the hundred other participants. According to his words, he did not know Maëlys, had never met him, or even crossed. Yet from August 28, a witness asserts to seeing Lelandais talking with the little girl.
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