At trial of Nordahl Lelandais, incomprehension of his mother and his sister

On the first day of the trial of the former military, who killed the little Maëlys in 2017, his family went up the thread of his ordinary childhood, before he gets drugs and multiplies sentimental failures and professionals .

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She came out at the bar shortly after 16 hours, engulfed in a burgundy color coat and in a thick black wool scarf which she did not defeat. His voice spent heavily beyond the courtroom. A bit as if his words stayed stuck in the bottom of his throat. Alexandra Hoffmann is the eldest sister of Nordahl Lelandais. His half-sister, more precisely. Brown hair cut flush, glasses on the nose, shoulder bag, it testifies to talk about this brother, sitting on his right in the box of the accused. Exercise plunges it into a deep misfortune that it does not try to conceal. Light blue shirt, pepper beard and salt, this brother looks at her, without betraying the slightest emotion. He appears since Monday, January 31 and until February 18th in the Assize Court of Isère in Grenoble for the murder of Maëlys de Araujo, 8 years, on August 27, 2017 in Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère).

What to say? she wonders. Otherwise he had normal childhood. Without abuse. A teen without special history. He loved fishing. He was not especially good student at school and he did not ask any particular problem. He was doing sports. Tennis, skiing, and he had predispositions. Which allowed him to consider making his life around that. So much so that at the age of entering college, he went to internship in sports sports. But he did not stay there. “I had registered to make Biathlon, but we did not do it,” he said.

“Despite our six years of gap, Nordahl and I were close,” says Alexandra. “We had the same character.” Always helpful. “He helped me move and did the paintings at home,” she says. So what happened so that this brother she still likes and that she visits in his prison regularly, commits “the horrors” who are worth it, to him as to her, to meet himself before this yard? ” Drugs “. Alexandra is convinced of it.

“There is the dope”

“When he started taking drugs, there was a change in his life,” she ensures. Their mother, Christiane, who will come a moment later at this same bar, says the same thing. “It’s that the Dope, she launches President Valérie Blain. The dope. The dope.” From 17 years old, Nordahl cannabis. Then around 30 years old, he takes cocaine. He drinks, too. Rum, often in quantity. But without becoming addicted, he assures the social investigator who meets him three times in detention in 2018.

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