Ihe sentence fell in silence, after seven hours of deliberation and three weeks of a trial of rare density. On February 18, the day of his 39and birthday, Nordahl Lelandais was sentenced to life imprisonment. Sitting in front of the box, the tired dress, his lawyer Mand Alain Jakubowicz, remained speechless for a moment, taking his face in his hands. “There is nothing worse than the word perpetuity, he had pleaded the day before, it refers to eternity. »
A few minutes later, the accused disappeared with the clanking of the handcuffs. Thus closed the Lelandais page for the Lyon lawyer. It had opened four and a half years earlier, when, at the end of August 2017, the 34-year-old former dog handler was accused of having kidnapped little Maëlys De Araujo, 8, during …