The trial of Nordahl Lelandais, accused of the murder of little Maëlys de Araujo, begins on Monday. The girl’s mother will be present. And she has every intention of confronting her daughter’s executioner.
As of Monday, January 31, Nordahl Lelandais will face justice and to the parents of little Maëlys, whose kidnapping and murder he recognized. Jennifer de Araujo, the girl’s mother, who has already had to face the gaze of her daughter’s executioner, is ready for this crucial deadline: “He doesn’t scare me. I am ready. I’m going to fight for my daughter. I want justice for him.”she confided this Tuesday, January 25 to Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine in It’s up to you.
On Monday, and for three weeks, Jennifer de Araujo – who wrote this book: Maelys. My daughter. Killed. At 8 and a half – will therefore be in the grounds of the Grenoble courthouse, waiting for the verdict to fall. She intends not to give up. “ Maëlys, she was strong. She was my little warrior, as I called her. And I will be strong for her. »
Joachim de Araujo, Maëlys’ father, looked for her everywhere…
“A Soulless Monster”
Jennifer de Araujo had already been able face Nordahl Lelandais during the nocturnal reconstruction of the facts, in September 2018. The police had asked her to remain silent, but she had not succeeded: ” I told him he left my daughter like trash in nature, that he was just a freak, a pedophile, he had no soul and that he deserved to die in prison. (…) He said nothing and went back to his prison. »
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