He gave a slight shake of his head, as if to signify disappointment. Barely noticeable. Until then, and during the two hours of indictment, he had remained unmoved, his gaze fixed on a hypothetical nowhere that does not exist in this courtroom. Thursday February 17, Nordahl Lelandais, who will be 39 on February 18 – the day of the verdict of his trial – welcomed without further reaction Attorney General’s submissionsJacques Dalest: “I ask for life imprisonment with twenty-two years of security. »
Tried since January 31 by the Assize Court of Isère for the murder of Maëlys De Araujo, an 8-year-old girl met by chance at a wedding party, on August 27, 2017 in Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère ), Nordahl Lelandais had already been sentenced in May 2021 to 20 years in prison for the murder of Arthur Noyer. “You destroyed a life on April 11, 2017 [celle d’Arthur Noyer]. You destroyed a life on August 27, 2017 [celle de Maëlys De Araujo]. You have sown despair and suffering. You are a child killer, a pest of the innocent,” insisted the representative of the public ministry.
Who is Nordahl Lelandais? For three weeks in Grenoble, the Assize Court looked into this personality “borderline”, as diagnosed by psychologists and psychiatrists. At the end of this hearing, and once the judgment has been rendered, “there will be many questions”warned Mr. Dallest. “ The mystery will remain until the end. » And to paint the portrait of the accused: psychopath, liar, highly unstable, helpful but impulsive, “a job anorexic”, as one of his friends testified at the bar. “The one we called ‘Belle Vie’, continues the Attorney General, because he did nothing, lived on welfare with which he bought his coke. »
Nordahl Lelandais is not just that. He is also a manipulator who “knows how to use others”. He exercises his perversity on his most vulnerable girlfriends. This man has an overflowing sexuality. “She occupies a large part of her existence”notes Mr. Dallest, who describes “a pervasive sexual frenzy no doubt at the origin of what brings us here”. He is all at once “straight, gay and pedophile”he insists.
“Illegal and compulsive sexuality”
From morning to night, he devotes hours and hours to viewing pornographic sites on the Internet, “with an attraction for the bodies of very young girls”, he says. And to recall that in July 2017, he sexually assaulted his 4-year-old goddaughter in his sleep, that he filmed while touching his sex, and that he started again a month later, at the end of August, on her 6-year-old cousin. “This illegal and compulsive sexuality resulted, on August 27, 2017, in the kidnapping and murder of Maëlys”, said the magistrate.
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