Jennifer Cleyet-Marrel, testified on the set of the show It begins today on France 2 this Thursday, January 11. The mother explained that her couple had not survived the death of their child.
On August 27, 2017, little Maëlys disappeared while that she was at a wedding with his parents in the town of Pont-de-Beauvoisin, in Isère. The child’s body was found several weeks later. But itIt was only in 2018 that Nordahl Lelandais admitted to having killed Maëlis. On February 18, 2022, the trial of the former dog handler was held in the presence of the girl’s family. The man was sentenced to life imprisonment, accompanied by a security sentence of 22 years. Maëlys’ mother, Jennifer Cleyet-Marrel, came to testify on the set of It starts today this Thursday January 11 on France 2.
She returned to the tragedy which shocked her family. “We are trying to move forward. We are in solidarity with my daughter”, confided the mother. As for the couple she formed with Joachim de Araujo, she clarified that her love story had not survived : “No, it was too difficult. It was too hard an ordeal”, she replied to the host who asked her the question. Jennifer also spoke about her very difficult daily life since the trial: “Afters the trial, I find that we feel alone and, then, despite the verdict, all of this will never bring Maëlys back”, she explained. And to continue: “We are no longer in the fight, whereas before, I was in a fight for Maëlys. I wanted to have the truth. I wanted him to be convicted. Once all this was over, we meet again all alone facing [soi-même].”
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“We also took life imprisonment”
From now on, Jennifer Cleyet-Marrel’s life is broken: “We also took life imprisonment. Our children [Cécile Noyer, la mère d’Arthur Noyer, lui aussi tué par l’ex-maître-chien était sur le plateau, NDLR] , we will never see them again. It’s an impossible thing to cure. You can’t get over the death of a child, it’s not a natural thingit’s us who have to leave first.” As Natacha Espié, a psychologist present on the show, revealed about the emptiness felt by Jennifer Cleyet-Marrel at the end of the trial: “Basically, we are mobilized towards this trial in a struggle. We are waiting for something, and afterwards there is a feeling of immense emptiness that grips you. I think you are pulled together by the violence of loss and mourning in that moment.” she concluded.
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