The main thing to remember
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8:33 p.m. This is the end of this live. Thank you for having followed it on francebleu.fr, see you tomorrow for the fifth day of hearing.
8:30 p.m. The hearing is adjourned. Debates will resume Friday morning at 9 a.m.
7:55 p.m. The hearing continues. The details raised remain very technical.
7:17 p.m. An image could have a child pornography character. "In the images extracted from the two phones, only one could have a child pornography character, we are not sure of the age of the person", explains the expert who insists on the word "could".
6:59 p.m. Three phones, erased files, research on the "decomposition of a human body". The investigator, who analyzed the accused's telephone, specifies that after 7 a.m. on August 27, 2017, Nordahl Lelandais, back home, will erase 107 photos and 32 multimedia files from his iPhone 4S. The gendarme analyzed two phones of the accused, extracted all the data recorded between January 1, 2017 and September 4, 2017, he combed through everything. In the end, 200 files, mainly pornographic, will be exploited. On April 24, 2017, the accused searches the internet for information on "the decomposition of a human body", it is 12 days after the murder of Corporal Noyer. Johann Polewczyk, the computer expert constable, also extracted telephone data, those from apps (photos, videos, geolocation data).
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6:53 p.m. The Court hears a fourth policeman to end this day of hearing. Johann Polewczyk is an expert from the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN), specializing in computer science. He had been appointed by the investigating judges in charge of the Maëlys case. Its mission was to exploit the data stored in the memories of three mobile phones and a computer belonging to Nordahl Lelandais.
6:40 p.m. The little girl in the car, the death of Maëlys, the deposit of the body. François Tixier, the gendarme continues to tell the hours at the bar in the room which listens attentively. At 2:48 and 25 seconds: the Audi A3 Nordahl Lelandais passes in front of a first CCTV camera. We therefore distinguish the little girl on the passenger side. The car stops at 3:01 a.m. at the level crossing of the railway, near which he initially deposited the body. The accused will stay 14 minutes on the spot before taking the road again to go to the home of his parents in Domessin (Savoie) in order to change clothes. He leaves his house at 3:22 a.m. to return to the wedding, he is there again at 3:26 a.m. and he removes the airplane mode from his phone. Nordahl Lelandais definitely leaves the wedding at 3:56. He will go and collect the child's body at 4:10 a.m. and bury it on the heights of Attignat-Oncin.
6:20 p.m. Maëlys' last moments at the wedding, the switchover at 2:46 and 52 seconds. Constable François Tixier is still unrolling the timetable for the wedding evening. At 2 a.m., a guest, who was not feeling well, decided to return to his car in the parking lot behind the room. He then meets Nordahl Lelandais and Maëlys who are returning from outside. At 2:30 a.m., the girl is outside and "playing ball with a guest", then with two little boys in the playroom. At 2:40 a.m., guests leave the wedding and one of them sees Nordahl Lelandais alone in his car. He is checking his phone. At this moment, Maëlys says goodbye to her grandparents who offer to bring her back, but she prefers to stay playing. At 2:45 a.m., a couple kisses the little girl before leaving. At 2:46 and 52 seconds, the DJ broadcasts the track "Cotton Eye Jo", a track that Maëlys adores and Jennifer, her mother, looks for her and is surprised not to see her already dancing among the guests on the track. Forty seconds earlier, Nordahl Lelandais switched his phone to airplane mode.
6:04 p.m. A guest who joins. As if to echo what David, a friend of Nordahl Lelandais who came to testify at the bar on Wednesday, was talking about, the accused can be very intrusive. This is demonstrated at the helm by Chief Warrant Officer Tixier. On August 14, 2017, the accused went to a barbecue "to which he was not invited" and learned of the existence of this marriage. A week later, he goes to the home of the groom Eddy, but this one is not present. On August 24, 2017, he tries to contact the groom during five calls and a text message. The latter calls him back the next day and offers him to come to the reception. Finally, he returns to the wedding at 0:20 the same evening and will be seen at the table of the bride and groom. Some thirty minutes later, he will show his dogs in photos on his phone to Maëlys. "At 1:38 am, this is the second time that evening that Nordahl Lelandais will exchange with the girl", specifies the gendarme.
5:52 p.m. Resumption of hearing. The third witness of the day is Chief Warrant Officer François Tixier, gendarme, criminal research analyst.
5:20 p.m. Suspension. The hearing is interrupted for 15 minutes.
"We found her dress in several pieces, (...) the back part of the panties was missing." - Yannick Lefleur, policeman and criminal identification technician
5:08 p.m. The place where the body of Maëlys was discovered, which remained in the wild for six months. Yannick Lefeur, policeman and criminal identification technician, continues his description of the place where Nordahl Lelandais deposited the body of the girl. Pictures are projected. The child's body was found in a hole measuring 80 cm by 40 cm, in a fetal position, on the left side. Two strands of braided hair were discovered about twenty meters away, pieces of clothing five meters from the body. It's "because of the animals" explains the gendarme. "Often there are animals that come, predators that come to remove bones to feed, flesh can move." Maëlys' body remained six months in the forest. “A 14 kg rock” was placed on it, adds the investigating gendarme. Regarding the clothes, the gendarme at the helm provide these details: "We found her dress in several pieces, the lower part separated from the upper part, and then vertical tears, the back part of the panties was missing."
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4:50 p.m. Many samples, seals, readings and few results. The Court is now hearing Major Yannick Lefeur, gendarme and criminal identification technician, mobilized on August 28, 2017, the day after Maëlys' disappearance. "The difficulty, when we arrive on site, everything had been cleaned. We were on a kidnapping. It was complicated! I then propose the odorology operations." The research related to the disappearance of Maëlys is quite considerable in view of the 324 seals that were carried out in the first week alone, and 107 swabs were also genetically analyzed.
The analyzes revealed no trace of anesthetic product. The first results of the samples taken in the vehicle of Nordahl Lelandais do not show any DNA trace of the child, explains the gendarme. There are also no fingerprints. “We looked for traces of blood in the car”, continues the technical gendarme. A "visible trace" was found "on the (left) edge of the trunk" but "it was barely visible". This small trace of blood was only brought to light thanks to the dismantling of Nordahl Lelandais' vehicle. It was Yannick Lefeur, who had the idea: "I'm a dad with three children, I said to myself it's not possible that we don't try everything on this vehicle, it's not possible that it won't. didn't leave anything. When you knock over a glass of water, you'd see the mark on the floor. We thought there must be something."
"This white shape, is it Maëlys?"
"Yes, Madam President."
4:31 p.m. "Is it really you Mr. Lelandais that we see in this Audi?" To this question, the president of the court clarified: "This white form, is it Maëlys?" Nordahl Lelandais does not flinch: "Yes, Madam President." The accused still admits having lied: "because I did not assume". The president continues: "What are you saying to Maëlys? What is happening in the car at that time?" The accused remains vague: "I no longer have any exact memories of what we said to each other, we did not discuss much, we talked about the dogs, the car, what she liked . She's the one who rode alone up front."
The president is surprised and tries to find out more: "There, she's not crying? She's not asking to go back to the village hall?" Nordahl Lelandais explains that no. So Valérie Blain tries to stick to the accused's version: "But in the minutes that follow, Maëlys cries, why?" Nordahl Lelandais mutters: "I don't know. Maybe she was thinking about leaving with someone..." And the president: "Aren't you turning around?" "No", replies Nordahl Lelandais who maintains that three minutes later, he will hit Maëlys because she is crying.
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4:17 p.m. The white silhouette, Maëlys' face, her grandmother's tears. The director of investigation Olivier Doudet, is brought to comment on the video surveillance of the commune of Pont-de-Beauvoisin, in Isère. At 2:47 a.m., Nordahl Lelandais' car appears in the images, with a silhouette in very light-colored clothing on the passenger side. The images are broadcast again in slow motion, this white shape is close to the window. On other images viewed in the courtroom, we see the car crossing a speed bump with a pedestrian crossing. We can still distinguish the white silhouette quite well. We perceive a face. Maëlys' grandmother leaves the room in tears. Several civil parties also leave the benches, in particular the sister, Colleen, and Joachim, the father of Maëlys.
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4:08 p.m. Nordahl Lelandais' journey that night, the deposit of the child's body. The accused's journey is retraced with a focus on where he parks his car in a wooded area, the path he takes to drop off Maëlys' body. Nordahl Lelandais initially indicated that he had deposited the body in a shed located a hundred meters from his home. In reality, at first, he left the girl's body near a railway.
The Court can get an idea thanks to images filmed from a drone in the Chartreuse massif, where the accused leaves his car on the road, where he descends by a path towards a pile of rocks, the place where the child's bones will be found. The accused definitively abandoned the body near the town of Attignat-Oncin (Savoie). Nordahl Lelandais then returned to the wedding on Sunday, August 27, 2017 in the early morning. In the courtroom, in his cubicle, he looks away from the screen.
4 p.m. Pictures of the car and the wedding hall. The Court now observes images of the village hall where the wedding took place, inside and outside. On a film showing the premises, we see the village hall and the surrounding area. We also see that Nordahl Lelandais' vehicle is near the front door reserved for the DJ and very close to the access staircase to the rest room, where the children were playing that evening.
3:45 p.m. Nordahl Lelandais admits lying and having erased the traces of Maëlys. At the time, Nordahl Lelandais explained that he had done all of this, "a brief wash" (in the testimony before the gendarmes), before the possible sale of his car. Nordahl Lelandais admits he lied. "Mr. Lelandais, thank you for getting up. Do you recognize that this cleaning was only intended to remove traces of Maëlys?" The accused standing: "Yes Madam President, it was to erase the traces." Another question from the president of the court which goes in the same direction: "The bag of wipes that you also threw away, was it to erase the traces?" "Yes Madam." acknowledges the accused.
"It was to erase the traces"
3:28 p.m. Everything is stripped, just after a hearing in front of the gendarmes. On these images where we see Nordahl Lelandais cleaning his car in an extremely thorough way, we also see him putting used wipes in a plastic bag next to the trash can, not in the trash can. These images are captured only half an hour after the first hearing of the accused as a witness by the gendarmes. "Nordahl Lelandais goes back to the driver's side. At 7:19 p.m., he vacuums the trunk and sprays the floor mats with aerosol products. At 7:21 p.m., he sprays a cleaning product on the rims of his car before spraying the trunk. In total, he stayed 2h05 at the washing station "including 1h44 to clean the vehicle, specifies the Court.
3:12 p.m. The car cleaned the day after the wedding. Chief Warrant Officer Olivier Doudet returned to the helm. The 48-year-old gendarme led the search and the investigation after the disappearance of Maëlys De Araujo in Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère). The Court views photos of Nordahl Lelandais cleaning his car the day after the wedding. It will be from 5:27 p.m. to 7:32 p.m. on Sunday August 27, 2017. Valérie Blain, the president of the court, describes the photos: "he opens the trunk, closes it, takes out a box of wipes, begins to clean the outline of his trunk in an extremely meticulous..."
The images are taken from the video surveillance of the washing station. We see the accused at the time, shirtless, in light jogging, black sneakers. It also uses a high-pressure jet, including inside the Audi A3. The inside of the trunk is sprayed with detergent and then rinsed. The description continues: "He vacuums the driver's side then the front passenger's side, he vacuums the carpets of his vehicle, he wipes the front passenger's side, on the inside of the front door. He excessively cleans the left side of the chest." The left side of the trunk is where the microscopic blood stain was found.
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3:03 p.m. Resumption of the debates, the program of the afternoon. The Court will hear investigators and a computer expert. Thanks to a makeshift repair, the viewing of the photos can resume with those of the cleaning of the accused's car.
2:56 p.m. An investigation opened on the sidelines of this Lelandais trial. The public prosecutor of Grenoble revealed the existence of a video shot during the trial, by a woman from the public. On this video of just over a minute, shot at the beginning of the week and broadcast on social networks, we can see Nordahl Lelandais. Jacques Dallest, the Advocate General began his remarks Thursday morning with a warning to the public attending the hearings: "The fact of capturing images constitutes a criminal offense punishable by two months in prison and a fine of 4,500 euros".
2:42 p.m. Late. The hearing has still not started. It appears that the technical, sound and image issues in the courtroom persist and are being repaired.
1:19 p.m. Suspension of hearing. The debates are interrupted for mid-day at lunch time, resumed at 2.30 p.m.
1:14 p.m. Again asked about the possibility of a serial killer. Alain Jakubowicz, Nordahl Lelandais' lawyer, comes back to this point: "You were asked if Nordahl Lelandais was a serial killer?" The sergeant repeats: "I cannot deny it or confirm it." Applause, the lawyer gets angry: "It's damaging not to have the intellectual honesty to say no." The defense, angry, raises the tone in the courtroom: "It is a shame for a director of investigation, that he dishonors the profession!"
1:12 p.m. The pornographic videos, the keywords typed in by the accused. This is one of the delicate questions in common thread of these first days of hearing before the Assize Court of Isère. Alain Jakubowicz, lawyer for Nordahl Lelandais, questions the warrant officer about the fact that his client looked at child pornography sites. But the lawyer shows photos of a porn actress born in 1989, an adult. “I spent hours on this horrible site” launches the lawyer. The sergeant corrects: "I spoke of pornographic sites with keywords that refer to 'teen', 'little girl' sections." The defense points out that the word teen is in the three most frequent searches on porn sites worldwide." Maître Jakubowicz adds that these are indeed "pornographic sites" and that there is nothing to confirm that he these are videos featuring children or teenagers. Lelandais' lawyer does not deny "certain behavior" of his client, does not deny the existence of videos of his little cousins. "I do not defend a saint , but he did not visit any child pornography sites."
1:03 p.m. Doubts about certain elements of the investigation. Alain Jakubowicz, lawyer for Nordahl Lelandais, specifies that at the beginning of the investigation, witnesses of the marriage, including the mother, were mistaken as to the time at which they had seen Maëlys for the last time. "That's why at the time, we applied for release," he said. The lawyer also returns to details which we do not really know what this would bring to the rest of the proceedings: the exact location of the accused's car on the evening of the wedding, the number of people who passed by. ..
12:52 p.m. The investigator is questioned by the defence. Alain Jakubowicz, Nordahl Lelandais' lawyer, looks back on his client's first hearings, when he denied the facts when he became the main suspect. "Would you say that at that time, in your experience, he behaved humanely?" Lying or denying at first is common and Constable Olivier Doudet recognizes that indeed, other suspects in other cases do not always recognize the facts immediately. But others do. "He had this ability to respond tit for tat", this ability to have an answer to everything, explains the investigator.
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12:45 p.m. Why did the gendarmes leave room for magnetizers in this investigation? This is a remark that may surprise, but it is also a reproach addressed by the Advocate General to the gendarmes in this affair: "Why do you persist in calling on the mages, magnetizers. What interest to give credit to these people- there ?" The Advocate General implies here: why leave room for the esoteric and the irrational ("even if these people are honest") in such a case? The gendarme, a little surprised at the bar, therefore responds factually: "The idea is not to give credit to these people, it is to receive all this information because we do not know who is hiding behind information. Like this, we will not have to respond to remonstrances such as 'the gendarmes did not check'" adds the chief warrant officer.
12:35 p.m. Could Maëlys have been found alive? The Advocate General asks Chief Warrant Officer Olivier Doudet: "Did Nordahl Lelandais help you during this investigation?" The gendarme: "No, he adapted to the elements that we had highlighted. But it must be recognized that it was he who enabled us to find the remains of the child", who recalls that the accused modified his versions over the evidence. The Advocate General wonders: "Could this case have been solved if we had not found the drop of blood in the trunk of his car?" The gendarme hesitates but advances: "Yes, but especially if we had not found the body, it could have lasted even longer" said the sergeant. And this chilling question asked in the courtroom: "Did you, for a time, hope to find Maëlys alive?" Asks the Advocate General. "We believed in it and we believed in it long enough. Yes, there was hope," replies the gendarme who led the investigation.
12:23 p.m. Get away from the family to better move forward and keep a cool head. At the helm, Laurent Broguet, lawyer for Maëlys' father, thanked the gendarme for the quality of the investigations carried out by the investigators. Yves Crespin, a lawyer who represents two associations for the defense of children, insists: "Remarkable work!" To advance in the investigations, Olivier Doudet specifies: "I had chosen to leave my relationship with the family to keep a cool head and to move the file forward. But one of my colleagues had kept a link with the family, without him say."
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12:17 p.m. A work of ants. To complete his interrogation, Olivier Doudet, aged 48, Chief Warrant Officer of the Gendarmerie who led the search to find Maëlys De Araujo as soon as he disappeared at the end of August 2017, returns to the titanic work and the leads to dig before the discovery of the remains of the body (in February 2018). "Our priority was to find Maëlys. The study of Nordahl Lelandais' phone started quickly but took time. He told us that he only had one cell phone when he had two. ( ...) Our field research was done blindly, because the suspect said nothing. We searched in the Drôme, in Bordeaux, in Metz, according to the information that we could collect. We check all the leads ."
12:08 p.m. The bizarre attitude of Lelandais and his desire for sex before the tragedy. Laurent Boguet, lawyer for Joachim De Araujo, father of Maëlys, takes the floor to ask "what forms of similarity" could he have observed in "the alleged facts" against Nordahl Lelandais (Maëlys, the sexual assaults of little cousins, or even Corporal Noyer, editor's note). "What analysis can you make of the points of agreement?" The report of the gendarme: in one case it is an adult (Arthur Noyer) in an "open context", an agglomeration (Chambéry), and in the other a girl in a "closed context", and a marriage , specifies the policeman.
"Why are you so interested in the accused?" Straightforward: "He left while everyone was looking for a missing girl. He had a weird attitude, according to the guests" replies the gendarme. "What was his attitude during his first auditions?" Nothing extraordinary according to the investigator: "He was a bit drowned among the other people heard. He was normal. But he was part of a group of five people who had been targeted." Caroline Remond, lawyer for the second cousins sexually assaulted by Nordahl Lelandais, reminds the investigator: in both cases, Nordahl Lelandais joined his girlfriends or current relations, a few hours before the tragedy, in order to have a sexual relationship.
11:49 a.m. A bundle of evidence against the accused. Fabien Rajon, lawyer for the maternal family of Maëlys, comes to question the investigating gendarme: "You mentioned the irrefutable evidence which attests to the responsibility of the accused very quickly?" The soldier at the helm therefore explains: "Quite quickly, we had a bundle of clues, in particular thanks to telephony and video surveillance." The lawyer also wants explanations about the car, how did the gendarmes become certain that the vehicle spotted on the cameras was indeed that of the accused? "We were able to make comparisons based on snapshots."
For these comparisons, the investigators paid attention to the shape of the antenna, the bluish color of the headlights, the sticker stuck to the rear of the vehicle and the positioning of the technical control sticker as well as the certificate insurance, all this "left no doubt". A lawyer for Maëlys' father questions the gendarme on the investigation into the murder of Corporal Noyer. "I see similarities there. And you?" "The vehicle, but I did not have access to the Chambéry procedure."
11:40 a.m. "From what you know of the file, would you say that Nordahl Lelandais is a serial killer?" It is an assessor who asks the question. The policeman who led the investigation does not produce a very enlightening answer. "I cannot comment, I have no regard for the other ongoing or closed procedures relating to Mr. Lelandais", replies the investigator.
11:32 a.m. The hearing resumes, the chief warrant officer returns to the bar and comments on projections. The Court is again viewing photos of the village hall of Pont-de-Beauvoisin. The gendarme who led the investigation comments on them. It shows the three areas: we see the main entrance to the site, the party room and the car park behind the room. In these places there is also a place where guests have slept. The investigator indicates that the dogs have "marked" the smell of the little girl, of which we lose track at the exit of the parking lot. An aerial view of the surroundings of the Lelandais home is projected as well as photos taken from CCTV cameras. It's unclear, we see beams of headlights, nothing that makes it possible to recognize the accused's car (an Audi A3, editor's note).
10:51 a.m. The hearing is adjourned. The proceedings will resume at 11.05 a.m. because a technical network problem is preventing the Court from viewing certain parts of the file correctly on the giant screen installed in the room.
"It's an investigation that was complicated and complex, especially with the very media context" - Olivier Doudet, gendarme, chief warrant officer in charge of the investigation in 2017
10:45 a.m. A very complicated investigation for the gendarmes because very media. The investigator has completed his testimony. The president asks him: "How to qualify this investigation?" Gendarme's response: "It's an investigation that was complicated and complex, especially with the very media context. Complex too, given the behavior of the suspect who tried to deny it several times," said the gendarme.
"It took a considerable number of investigations to obtain a confession" - Olivier Doudet, gendarme, chief warrant officer in charge of the investigation in 2017
10:43 a.m. A methodical Nordahl Lelandais. After more than an hour of presentation, the director of investigation concludes that the accused showed composure: "He erased all his traces in his car, on his clothes, on his telephone . He waited six months to say where he hid the girl's body." The director of investigation specifies that to remove Maëlys, he was cautious, because no one saw the girl get into his car. However, we know that he had managed to create a link with her in the evening, at least three times. "For several weeks, we will not know if this little girl is still alive, with a denying suspect." In response to a question from the court, the gendarme at the helm summarizes: "It took a considerable number of investigations to obtain a confession."
10:42 a.m. The drop of blood and the remains of the body. The director of investigation tells how, in January 2018, a microscopic drop of blood, found in the trunk of the accused's Audi, finally made it possible to find the remains of Maëlys, on February 14, 2018, in Chartreuse. This is a twist in the course of the investigation! On February 14, 2018, Nordahl Lelandais led the investigators to the place where he deposited the body of Maëlys, about fifteen kilometers from Domessin and at an altitude of 756 meters. The "almost all of his bones, his clothes, shoes and several strands of his hair", are found. The director of investigation also tells how many searches were carried out as well as field research: caves, forests, lakes are searched.
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10:38. Photos and documents are exhibited in court. The President indicates that a certain number of photos will be projected. We see this hall, yellow in color, where the wedding took place. Plans of the premises are also projected so that the chief warrant officer shows the court precisely what he has just explained. We therefore see the plan of this village hall in Pont-de-Beauvoisin where the wedding took place and where Maëlys disappeared on the night of August 26 to 27, 2017.
10:36 a.m. The exact time of Maëlys' disappearance. The accused, mask on his face, listens attentively to the gendarme telling how the investigation made it possible to confuse him. And the means deployed were considerable. Maëlys' parents are impassive. The director of investigation: "We processed a considerable amount of information, to establish the disappearance of Maëlys at 2:45 a.m. At 2:47 a.m., thanks to video surveillance, we see his car crossing Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin, with a small shape on the passenger seat." Evidence from the investigation shows that Nordahl Lelandais struck after 2:49 a.m. on Sunday, August 27, 2017. He was then absent from the wedding for 41 minutes that night.
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10:27. The car cleaned, stripped. The investigation reveals that Nordahl Lelandais was particularly committed to cleaning his car, the trunk in particular but also the front side of the vehicle. The investigators manage to reconstruct, to the nearest minute, the time spent on each location of the vehicle. New analyzes are requested. The gendarmes watch the video of the washing station on Sunday August 27, 2017 from 5:27 p.m. to 7:32 p.m. The accused carries out a thorough cleaning for 1h44 focusing on the trunk and the front passenger seat, he uses wipes, aerosol cans, water, detergent.
10:18 a.m. Cocaine and DNA. Nordahl Lelandais is seated this Thursday in the box, black shirt, attentive to the presentation of the director of investigation. The latter returns to the cocaine intake during the evening of the wedding. Toxicological analyzes confirm the cocaine intake. The gendarmes question two ex-companions of Nordahl Lelandais and paint a dark profile. He was released and placed under surveillance. The investigators will discover Maëlys' DNA in the accused's car, as well as ethanol. Her defense at the time was that it may be transfer DNA, as the girl came in the vehicle with a little blond boy to "check that there were no dogs".
10:14 a.m. A second phone. The gendarmes discovered that Nordahl Lelandais has a second telephone line. Its activity is interesting for the investigators. At the same time, the results of the odorology are "nil" (the dogs will get sick after smelling the smells of the car). The suspicions of the investigators: the cell phone of the suspect was cut several times in the evening, in particular during the time slot corresponding to the disappearance of the girl.
10:08 a.m. Strange elements. Witnesses note bizarre behavior during and after the wedding. Nordahl Lelandais is taken unwell and goes to the toilet. He leaves the place without having told the bride and groom. A few hours later, he is seen cleaning his vehicle. He was taken into custody on Thursday August 31, 2017, four days after Maëlys disappeared. He is already beginning to adapt his responses to the elements presented to him. He is discovered with white shorts on the photos (and not black as he said). Nordahl Lelandais is stressed, he explains that he vomited on the shorts. He denies any involvement in the disappearance of Maëlys. He was then released on September 1, then returned to police custody and imprisoned. He always denies.
9:45 a.m. The profile of Lelandais quickly interested the investigators. The gendarmes hear 192 people. There are five potential suspects, including a great uncle known for facts about minors, a man who is coming out of prison and Nordahl Lelandais, very quickly. Maëlys' mother remembered that the little girl had called the accused "her boyfriend". The behavior of Lelandais seems strange to various witnesses, the evening of the wedding and the next day, especially when he decides to clean his car in every corner.
He was a last-minute guest at the wedding. He is heard twice by the gendarmes, scratches are noticed. "Our attention will quickly shift to Nordahl Lelandais." A witness says he saw him chatting with Maëlys outside the village hall. "He is a longtime friend of the groom, even if they had lost sight of each other. He calls a few days before to participate in the aperitif, then he asks permission to come back after dinner."
"Very quickly the work of the tracking dogs put forward the hypothesis that the girl did not leave the premises on foot" - Olivier Doudet, chief warrant officer of the Grenoble research section in 2017
9:36 a.m. The director of investigation details the first times of research after the disappearance on August 27, 2017. Olivier Doudet, chief warrant officer of the research section of Grenoble, aged 48, in uniform at the helm, evokes a "long, complex despite a suspect identified quickly. Despite the lies of Nordahl Lelandais, the investigations were successful. Priority was given to the search for Maëlys. This hope was extinguished in February 2018". He worked on this file from August 28, 2017 to January 2021. "Very quickly, the work of the tracking dogs put forward the hypothesis that the girl did not leave the premises on foot," he explains.
"We know that she is reserved and shy, but once she is confident, she can be very open." The director of investigation presents the method: inventory of sex offenders in the sector, sites equipped with video surveillance, collection of testimonies to date the time slot of the child's disappearance between 2:30 and 3:30. Investigators are interested in anyone presenting "suspicious" elements. Several wedding guests are suspected. "She is seen one last time, at dessert time, by her mother, seen by a little boy she was playing with putting his shoes back on a few minutes before disappearing."
9:30 a.m. The anger of Alain Jakubowicz. The Lyon lawyer who defends Nordahl Lelandais took the floor to split up in anger. The one who responds to the defense: no his client is not a pedophile, yes he is no longer the same since the serious facts of which he is accused. "If you watched television last night, on the news channels continuously, and especially on one, we bludgeoned, I say 'bludgeoned', bludgeoned on the fact that Nordahl Lelandais had not changed?" So Lelandais's lawyer clarified the content of the letter: "'You asked me what I was doing: I'm entering the second year of BTS in high school.' There's the young high school girl! There's the only truth! And enough of that kind of effect on objectively false things!" Master Rajon, lawyer for Maëlys' maternal family, takes the floor to respond to his colleague, stating that he had not alluded to "child pornography sites" but to "sites devoted to adolescent girls". The hearing incident is closed.
"Yes he had a telephone like a large number of detainees, yes he went on pornographic sites and it is a form of social peace in detention, you should know that" - Alain Jakubowicz, lawyer for Nordahl Lelandais
9:21 a.m. Nordahl Lelandais' phone in prison. Alain Jakubowicz, defense lawyer, justifies the consultation of pornographic videos of his client on a telephone in his cell. "Yes he had a phone like a lot of prisoners, yes he went on pornographic sites and it's a form of social peace in detention, you have to know that." After investigating the phones, there is "no web consultation carried out on possible child pornography content, that's the reality of the file" supports Alain Jakubowicz. "My colleague (Fabien Rajon, editor's note) wanted to show that my client had not changed and that he remained a pedophile. These statements were not based on any document. Nothing was produced in the file except the desired effect ."
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9:12 a.m. The hearing began with a few skirmishes between the defense and the prosecution. Nordahl Lelandais is wearing a black shirt. Alain Jakubowicz, defense lawyer, wants to have documents added to the file in relation to points raised on Wednesday, in particular the keywords of the pornographic videos consulted by the accused on a telephone in prison. On this subject, the defense criticizes "the audience effect", the day before, of Fabien Rajon, lawyer for the maternal family of Maëlys, concerning epistolary exchanges with "a high school student" from Chambéry. He will therefore produce these exchanges and communicate them. "Nowhere is it written that she is a minor or that she is a high school student, she is 20 years old" is surprised Alain Jakubowicz.
8:50 a.m. Thursday's schedule. From 9 a.m., the Court will hear investigators, with the testimonies at the bar of the gendarmes mobilized during the disappearance and death of Maëlys. More precisely, the director of investigation must testify in the morning. Then, in the afternoon, three new witnesses will return to the investigation surrounding the death of Maëlys and that of the alleged sexual assaults of two cousins.
8:44 a.m. The personality of the accused during the first three days. A rare occurrence during a trial, three days were devoted to the personality of the accused. Thus, Wednesday's day ended in the afternoon with questions from the lawyers for the civil parties and the defense, as well as from the Advocate General to Nordahl Lelandais. He himself summarized his idle days, in 2017, punctuated by "coffee, cigarette, cocaine, pornographic sites, friends, cigarette, cocaine, coffee, porn sites, ..." The Court will also have learned that he had a phone in prison, which allowed him to create a Facebook page or check out some porn videos with teenage girls.
8:42 a.m. "I know what I no longer want to be". On Wednesday, Nordahl Lelandais faced some similar questions: who are you Mr. Lelandais? He returned to his many failures but now explains: "I read a lot of books on Buddhism. I try to move forward." He was also pushed around by David: "Nordahl, I'm definitely the friend who knows you the most. You know that, don't you? So everything you've said from the start...I don't don't believe at all. Now you're going to tell the truth to this family. The truth, you owe it to the family." The accused listened, mask lowered, without reaction.
8:37 a.m. Two witnesses Wednesday morning. On the third day of hearing, Nordahl Lelandais, who is appearing for the kidnapping and murder of Maëlys De Araujo in 2017, as well as the sexual assaults on two little cousins, faced two witnesses. The court first heard from Laure, a former relation of the accused. "I felt like I had a relationship with Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde." She portrayed a very sex-oriented, mysterious, and very vague defendant about his life and family, inventing a new first name (Jordan), a past in the Legion. The man she knew had armor, no emotions. David, a second witness on Wednesday, certainly described a "super friend", but sometimes intrusive, not very hardworking but seductive, nicknamed "Nono the crazy". He also kept in mind this sentence of the accused during a fishing trip: "if one day, we want to get rid of a body, we will have to hide it here."
8:35 a.m. Hello and welcome to this live. We follow together this fourth day of hearing devoted to the Lelandais trial before the Assize Court of Isère in Grenoble. As every morning, the debates must open at 9 am.
