In August 2017, it was during a wedding that the little Maëlys was removed, before being killed. The couple organizer of the party came to testify in front of the Assize Court of Grenoble, Tuesday, February 8th.
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Long Long Eddy and Anne-Laure will remember this 26 August 2017. Not as we remember his marriage. But like “a nightmare”, drops Eddy. Tuesday, February 8, at the seventh day of the trial of Nordahl Lelandais for the murder of Maëlys de Araujo, the couple came to the bar say the “anger”, the disarray and the guilt that threatened them since all these years.
The two spouses had prepared things big. The announcements sent six months before. Nearly two hundred guests. The Festival Hall of Pont-de-Beavoisin (Isère) provision. A DJ to animate the evening. And a nanny to take care of children up to 1 hour in the morning. It must have been a beautiful wedding. And besides, it was a beautiful wedding.
old friends
Eddy and Nordahl were old friends. “We knew each other for twenty years, but we had lost sight of each other for five years,” says first. When, two days before the wedding, Nordahl phone him to take news and congratulate him, Eddy invites him to the wine of honor. Even if they move away from each other, the future husband has no reason to want to the one he called Nono, who loved to party and never wound to serve.
After the wine of honor, Nordahl came back for the evening, once the meal is finished and the cake served. Peant blue t-shirt and white Bermuda, an outfit for the least inappropriate in such circumstance that does not formalize. It’s the month of August, it’s hot, other guests have taps at the feet. All the same, it surprises it a little. Knowing Nordahl and its dragging side, it says that it is not a seductive costume.
Then, at the bottom Eddy does not care about all that. Anne-Laure also, who also knows Nordahl. They were 20 years old in the same years and are often out together. Tonight is their marriage. The night is beautiful and everyone dances, sings and laughs. Up to 3 o’clock in the morning. At once, an announcement of the DJ cut short to the junk. A child has disappeared. Jennifer Cleyet-Marrel, Maëlys’s mom is surprised not to see his daughter on the track when his favorite song – fed like never – is taken up by everyone.
“It’s not Nordahl I knew “
The party is finished. She first switches into anxiety before sinking into the tragedy. We are looking for everywhere. Under the tables, sometimes the girl fell asleep, around the parking lot, in the groves and until the stream, not far from there. We do not find Maëlys. The gendarmes arrive at 4 o’clock in the morning and at 7 o’clock they start collecting the first testimonies. Eddy lists the guests he transmits to the investigators. “I immediately gave Nordahl,” he said. I regret that this intuition has not been taken into account. “
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