He explained that if he had always denied it so far, it was because he had misunderstood the term “kidnapping”. “I didn’t understand the term kidnapping actually. But the assessor and the lawyers explained it to me well: to remove her without the consent of the parents is an abduction,” he said. However, he maintained that the girl “came up” on her own in her car “to go see (her) dogs”.
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“I did not remove it voluntarily,” he adds, provoking the impatience of President Valérie Blain, who questions him. “Madam President, do you not like my answer?” He repeats at this time seeing again on Maëlys the face of Corporal Arthur Noyer whom he killed a few months earlier: “a fear suddenly arises, I want this fear to disappear and stop”.
“It’s an inexplicable moment, I freak out, I punch him. (…) When I kick, I intend to kill her, yes”, he explains.
Asked about his feelings at this precise moment, he said to himself “in total incomprehension, I don’t even know if it’s day or night, what time it is, where I am”.
“I know once again that I am not believed but it is the truth”, he repeats.