The brother of Nordahl Lelandais and a former fellow prisoner of the accused will be forced to testify at the trial of the former soldier for the murder of little Maëlys, which opened on Monday in Grenoble.
The brother of Nordahl Lelandais and a former fellow prisoner of the accused asked not to appear at the trial of the former soldier for the murder of little Maëlys, which opened on Monday in Grenoble, but the president of the court of Assizes ordered that they be sought to testify.
Sven Lelandais sent a letter to the court on January 12, saying he had “nothing to do” with his brother or this case. The defendant’s lawyer, Me Alain Jakubowicz, described this brother on Monday as “a sick man, suffering from an orphan disease, a man who because of his name had great difficulty finding a job. It is seasonal, cut off from the world, in a mountain restaurant”.
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According to the lawyer, his testimony is not necessary, but the president ordered that he be “wanted”, noting that he had not provided proof of his employment. Similarly, a former co-detainee of Nordahl Lelandais let it be known that he did not want to come and testify. Farid C. had declared during the investigation that Nordahl Lelandais had confided to him that he had tried to rape Maëlys, before killing her.
“That does not prevent him from testifying to the media”
Me Jakubowicz recalled that at the trial of Lelandais for the murder of Arthur Noyer in Chambéry, the Advocate General had dismissed this testimony, deemed unreliable, but the President of the Assize Court of Isère asked Monday that he is brought “by public force”.
In addition, an ex-girlfriend of Lelandais presented a medical certificate to claim an exemption. “I note, however, that this does not prevent him from testifying to the media,” tackled Alain Jakubowicz. The court also asked that she be heard.
Nordahl Lelandais, 38, is on trial for the murder preceded by the kidnapping and kidnapping of 8-year-old Maëlys De Araujo in August 2017, as well as for sexual assaults against two of his grandchildren. cousins in the same summer.
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The day of Monday was to continue with the report of the president of the court then, in the afternoon, the hearing of witnesses including a personality investigator and the mother of the accused. In addition to the experts and investigators, around forty witnesses should be heard during the hearings.
Nordahl Lelandais, already sentenced in Chambéry in May 2021 to 20 years in prison for the murder of young soldier Arthur Noyer, faces life imprisonment.
The verdict is expected around February 18.
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