The jurors of the Assize Court of Grenoble followed the requisitions of the Attorney General. Nordahl Lelandais is sentenced to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period.
Life with a 22-year security sentence for Nordahl Lelandais. The jurors of the Assize Court of Grenoble followed the requisitions of the Attorney General.
Sentenced last year to 20 years in prison for the murder of a young corporal in April 2017, the former dog handler was tried for the kidnapping and murder of Maëlys De Araujo, during a wedding party, as well only for sexual assaults against two little cousins, aged 4 and 6, during the same summer of 2017.
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Friday morning, Nordahl Lelandais once again apologized “sincerely” Friday to the family of little Maëlys before the jurors of the Assize Court of Isère retired to deliberate on her fate. “I acknowledge all the facts of which I am accused, with sincerity. I know that the families will never accept my apologies but I must present them with the greatest sincerity”, declared the accused Nordahl Lelandais “J I also heard the experts on the long work that I have to do on myself, I am aware of it, I will do it with great determination”, he said, standing in his box in his shirt clear facing the courtyard.
no call
The family of little Maëlys welcomed the life sentence of Nordahl Lelandais, who immediately said that he would not appeal the maximum sentence imposed on him. “It’s hard to hear the word life (…) We are not going to create suspense, there will be no appeal”, indicated his lawyer Me Alain Jakubowicz at the exit of the room. hearing. “Justice has been done, everyone was waiting for it, it is there, at the end of a trying trial for everyone,” he said.
“I’m happy with the verdict that was said today. Life is what we took when we no longer had Maëlys,” said the mother of the eight-year-old girl, Jennifer Cleyet. -Marrel. “What more can we say, for four years we have been waiting for this moment, we are not completely satisfied, we know that he is going to prison and that he will no longer hurt anyone, it relieves us”, commented the father of the little girl, Joachim De Araujo.
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