“He abandoned my daughter like trash”: what the mother of little Maëlys said to Nordalh Lelandais

Five years after the murder of her daughter, Jennifer de Araujo publishes Maëlys, a book in which she evokes the affair which has upset the whole of France, but especially her own family. She retraces several significant moments of her painful experience, and in particular her confrontation with Nordahl Lelandais during the reconstruction of the crime to encourage him to speak. “You were standing, motionless, condemned to wait wisely with no other right than to remain silent, yet that evening, this silence, it was impossible for you to keep it.“, launches Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine to Jennifer de Araujo. “When he showed the place where he had left my daughter for more than six months, all alone, in the forest, I told him that he had left my daughter like a piece of trash all alone in the wild, that he was just a freak and a pedophile, that he had no soul and that he deserved to rot in prison“, answers Maëlys’ mother. Nordahl Lelandais, far from lowering his eyes, was content to support the gaze of Jennifer de Araujo, as the latter explains. “He didn’t say anything and then he went back to his prison.”

“I will fight for my daughter”: Maëlys’ mother ready for the trial

Jennifer de Araujo assures him: Nordahl Lelandais does not scare him. A few days before the trial of the man accused of the murder of little Maëlys, which is due to begin on January 31, the girl’s mother is categorical: she will “fight for his daughter“.”Maëlys was strong, she was a little warrior, as I called her, and I want to be strong for her.“As she confides on the set of C à Vous, Jennifer de Araujo hopes that Nordahl Lelandais will stay”as long as possible in prison”.

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