At the end of three weeks of hearing, the 39-year-old man was found guilty of the abduction and murder of the 8-year-old girl at a wedding party, in August 2017. He will not appeal.
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convicted of the murder, the removal and sequestration of Maëlys de Araujo – 8 years at the time of the fact on August 27, 2017, in Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère) – and guilty of sexual assault Agard two of his cousins under the age of 15, in July and August of the same year, Nordahl Lelandais was sentenced on Friday, February 18, by the Assize Court of the Isère to the perpetuity criminal imprisonment, accompanied by Twenty-two years of security. He also received a sentence of ten years of socio-judicial follow-up, with the obligation to submit to it
At the statement of this verdict, the accused seemed a short time as slightly sounded, before exchanging a few words across the window with his lawyers and his mother. For their part, sitting in the forefront of the Court, as since the beginning of the trial, the 31st of January, the parents and the sister of Maëlys enlocated. “The sentence is heavy. He will never hurt anyone harm to anyone, commented Joachim de Araujo, the Father, not totally satisfied. But suffering is there. Nothing can bring Maëlys.” “Maëlys has made it possible to put a dangerous Criminal in prison, “said Jennifer Cleyet-Marrel, the mother, while rejoicing the sentence,” up to what [she] was waiting for. “
In accordance with the requisitions of the representative of the public prosecutor represented by the Attorney General Jacques Dallest, this verdict was made at the end of a deliberation of nearly seven hours. At the recovery of the hearing, Friday morning, the former 39-year-old mastermaster again addressed to the girl’s family to apologize he knows, he said, that ‘They will not be “never accepted”. “I heard the experts on the long work to do, and I will do it with determination,” he added.
“only face his destiny”
The nine judges have not followed M e Alain Jakubowicz who, in his argument, the day before, had suggested a sentence that would “keep hope like every man is entitled to it: 30 years enclosed, that’s what he deserves! “He had sent to the jury, while admitting the difficulty of his task:” How does a man defend a man who killed an 8 year old girl? Who dropped The panties of his little cousins of 4 and 6 years old to caress them, filming the scene? “And to tackle the bad impression that, by his lies and silence, his client left during these three weeks of hearing, the Lyonal lawyer recalled the rules of law that presides over the Assize Court. “An accused has the right to shut up, to lie is French law.”
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