Nordahl Lelandais, in the head of the killer

In its cell, Nordahl Lelandais turns in circles."Not easy every day, prison," he complains to Nathalie*, a friend.The days are very long.[…] Always the same routine.I get up around 7 am, I will have my shower, after I have my coffee with my cigarette, I do a little cleaning and I watch TV.At noon, I eat when it is good, because here it is not always the case, after I go back a coffee and then I try to take a nap when there is not too much noise.[…] I try to remain strong [dreaming] of Ragga Dancehall by the sea, on my deckchair [with] a piña colada.Maybe someday !»»

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In these adolescent writings, of this round writing, the 38 -year -old man remains distant, is looking for an apology: "I was so long before, but alcohol and drugs led me here.[…] I still do not understand what happened in my head, I am so calm and generous.I am like a broken vase, I try to pick up the pieces, but there will be cracks that we will see forever.[…] Journalists say a lot of bullshit about me.[…] One day, they will say that I am at the origin of the disappearance of dinosaurs ... lol.»»

Berne man everyone.He even dared to ask the prison's chaplain to go and meditate on Maëlys' grave.Request granted

Nordahl Lelandais practices a form of epistolary art.His few visitors, apart from his mother, his brother, his half-sister and his nephew, describe him charismatic, sensitive.Faced with his confidants, he spans his pains, complains about lack of freedom, evokes his nostalgia for fishing parts in the Guiers river, walks around Lake Aiguebelet.Rarely manifests regrets.However, he dared to ask his chaplain to go and pray on the grave of Maëlys ....

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Placed in isolation at the penitentiary center of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, Lelandais has taken its ease. Il emprunte des livres à la bibliothèque, dont un sur les moines de Shaolin et un autre sur le kung-fu, dessine et prend des cours par correspondance, son statut de prisonnier « vulnérable»» l’empêchant de travailler dans les ateliers.His accounts are full, supplied by her mother and this friend, Nathalie, who paid her, until recently, 250 euros each month. Tombée sous le charme de « Nono»», elle lui aurait aussi acheté un ordinateur portable à 2 000 euros, rapporte un membre de l’administration pénitentiaire qui avertit : « C’est un dangereux manipulateur.Lelandais can be fooled by everyone, he has high esteem of himself.»» Le prisonnier peut se montrer hautain envers le personnel, vantard lorsqu’il s’agit de dévoiler ses muscles taillés par le sport. « Il ne s’inquiète que de sa petite personne, aimant qu’on parle de lui, bougonnant quand on l’appelle “l’autre”»», poursuit la même source, évoquant le témoignage de la famille du caporal Noyer, qui, appelée à la barre, refusait de prononcer son nom.Attentive, carrying out, he would endeavor to dissect each article concerning him and would often consult his criminal file, which he annotates small observations to better prepare his defense and his regular appointments with his lawyer, Alain Jakubowicz.

Languages are delusional.He seduces as much as he installs me but "nono the fun" no longer makes anyone laugh

In May 2021, Nordahl Lelandais, found guilty of voluntary homicide on the person of Arthur Noyer, a 24 -year -old corporal, was sentenced to twenty years in criminal imprisonment.On January 31, he will find the accused bench at the Grenoble court, this time for the murder of Maëlys, 8, and sexual assault on two of his little-cousins of 4 and 6 years old at the time of the facts.

On August 26, 2017, 182 guests celebrated the wedding of Anne-Laure and Eddy in the village hall of Pont-de-Beauvoisin, in Isère.Jennifer, the Germaine cousin of Eddy, Joachim, her husband, and their two daughters, Colleen and Maëlys, came from the Jura.Joyful evening.Children, overexcited, play late, it is dark.A baby-sitter watches them until 1 a.m..At 1:30 a.m., some fall asleep.Maëlys continues to have fun, twirling from table to table. La gamine demande à sa mère l’autorisation d’aller voir les chiens « de son copain»».Intrigued, Jennifer accompanies her to a man whom she does not know and who was installed at the groom table.She exchanges a few words with him, then he shows her the photos of his two dogs on his mobile phone.She lets her daughter chat with him.Around 3 am, Jennifer is worried about not seeing her. « Sa première intuition, c’est un enlèvement…»» confiera plus tard son avocat, Me Fabien Rajon.The minutes flow, the concern grows.David, a family member, tells us about anxiety: "We searched everywhere.In the children's room, under the tables, outside, in the parking lot.Inside the refrigeration trucks, in the containers of the garbage cans, the bushes, in the middle of the rubble in a building under construction, in a boarding school.I see myself in a suit howled the name of Maëlys by the river.But nothing ... facing us, a very black night and this silence.Awful.»» À 4 h 25, les gendarmes arrivent sur place.Two Saint Hubert dogs mark the last trace of the child in the parking lot.According to the first elements, it was climbed aboard a vehicle and has disappeared less than two hours earlier.

The profile of Nordahl Lelandais, 34 at the time, quickly appeared in the radar of investigators.His detached attitude then his hasty departure shocked the guests.Jennifer quotes her name. Des témoins jurent que la petite fille appelait Lelandais « tonton»».At the entrance to the room, an guest heard him whisper at Maëlys, around 2 am: "I go through there, but you go through the other side.»» Un autre verra le même homme quitter le parking au volant de son Audi A3, « au ralenti»», sans participer aux recherches.The 30 -year -old was questioned for the first time, August 27 at 4:25 p.m..Immediately after his interrogation, he washed his car with meticulousness for more than two hours.He rinses the interior of the interior with a high pressure jet, linger on the inside of the passenger door for twenty-five minutes then on the trunk carpets for forty-seven other minutes.Finally, instead of getting rid of used wipes in the nearby trash, he keeps them.Nordahl Lelandais is meticulous.But the products used, pyrazine and ethanol, will vomit sniff dogs ... the noose tightens.In the fall of 2017, he was indicted for sequestration and murder in the Maëlys affair.

For months, he proclaimed his innocence, striving to blur the tracks.It is a blood microgout under the carpets of the trunk of its Audi which seals its fate. Le 14 février 2018, l’homme craque : « Cette petite, je l’ai tuée involontairement»», dit-il en pleurant avant de conduire les enquêteurs sur les lieux où les restes de Maëlys sont retrouvés, éparpillés dans les bois d’Attignat-Oncin, à une quinzaine de kilomètres de Pont-de-Beauvoisin, lieu de sa disparition.Lelandais knows the corner by heart, he walked it with his dogs, Tyron and Câline.

Dans son entourage, les langues se délient, « Nono le rigolo»» ne fait plus rire personne.The gendarmes target his personality, his flaws, his childhood.One of his old friends remembers a family setting "a little glaucous, but not mean.In the living room, there were fetuses of animals immersed in jars filled with Formol. On trouvait ça bizarre, mais, ses deux parents travaillant dans le secteur médical, on s’est dit que c’était à eux»». Au cours des interrogatoires, le suspect demeure laconique au sujet de sa jeunesse, qu’il qualifie de « normale»», jurant n’avoir jamais subi de « violences sexuelles»». Mais une expertise psychologique, que Match a pu consulter, révèle un passé pas si « normal»», notamment un foyer désuni.The father ?Distant, cold, rejected himself by his father, he repeated on his son his own traumatic story.Conversely, his mother dedicates an absolute love to him, an almost unhealthy devotion.Adult, Nordahl Lelandais seduces as much as it insupports. Des proches nous le décrivent « serviable, tendre, respectueux mais paumé»», quand d’autres, la plupart, dénoncent sa violence, son impulsivité, sa dépendance à la cocaïne et à l’alcool. « C’est un fainéant, bagarreur, borné, mythomane !»» résume un ancien employeur.

Wedding day, Lelandais consults child pornographic sites.Twenty-four hours after Maëlys' death, he connects again

His military experience could have constituted a form of salvation.Master Chien then Corporal at the 132nd Cynophile Battalion of the Army, in Suippes (Marne);Injured in 2005 by a dart in the eye launched by a superior, pushed to the end, the Lelandais soldier renders his uniform after four years of service, to the relief of his hierarchy, exasperated by his indiscipline and his addiction to cannabis.For his friends, he affects extravagant accounts of Africa, where he has never set foot: scenes of urban guerrilla warfare, grenades launched on children ...

Upon his return to civilian life, Lelandais multiplies dubious professional experiences, temporary jobs ... and conquests, women or men, everything suits him.In intimacy, man appears aggressive when he wipes a refusal, even threatening during the breaking phases.Once, he pretended to rush into a car on one of his ex -opposite exes.He betrays three of his companions by publishing, without their knowledge, on the Youporn site, videos of their antics.The gendarmes of the Institute of Criminal Research of the National Gendarmerie dwelled on the sexuality of this main suspect, addicted to pornography, in particular to child pornography ... He may have used an application allowing to hide and quantify photos, videosAnd documents, the analyzes of his mobile phones, his computer and his hard drives reveal the horror: nearly 314 obscene files, two of which proving sexual assault on her two little-cousins.

The first, dated July 11, 2017, fifty-five seconds long, films close-up the sex of a little girl, the finger of a man on her orange panties.The second shows the same individual caress with her thumb the sex of a sleeping little girl.Two unbearable minutes shot on August 20, 2017, at 2:14 a.m..A week before Maëlys' disappearance ... The investigators were able to determine that on the wedding day, Lelandais consulted child pornographic sites monitored by Interpol, including a specialist in children from 3 to 10 years old.The next day, at 8:42 p.m., almost twenty-four hours after Maëlys' death, he connected again ...

Each month, a woman in love with "nono" pays him 250 euros

Another disturbing element: the evenings of the two murders, Lelandais sought to satisfy a sexual drive, pressing by sms his ex to receive it in the middle of the.Without success. Il dira à l’une d’entre elles que, si elle lui avait répondu la nuit des faits, « ça aurait tout changé, putain»». On lui demande pourquoi : « Si j’étais parti du mariage, il ne se serait pas passé ce qu’il s’est passé…»» Lelandais a le don de rejeter la faute sur autrui. Selon plusieurs expertises psychologiques, l’accusé, jugé « narcissique»», présente une « dangerosité criminologique extrêmement importante»». Défavorablement remarqué pour « son mépris des normes, des règles et des contraintes sociales, une faible tolérance à la frustration, un sentiment de vide, d’ennui et d’abandon et une tendance à la manipulation»», l’homme « a toujours besoin de vérifier qu’il est en vie, dans une excitation permanente, consommant drogues, alcool, femmes, hommes, enfants»».

Faced with evidence, Nordahl Lelandais does not cille.As when he practiced Thai boxing, he dodges attacks.Padlocked in his inconsistencies for four years, he never seems to be short of explanations.Faced with him, magistrates and investigators must tear up a high struggle of real sentences, because according to them: “He adapts his answers to the questions asked;He navigates between the challenge and the denial;He stops talking while waiting to see what we have, or talk too much, giving too much details.»» En stratège, il maintient ses explications tant qu’on ne lui prouve pas l’inverse. « Un homme intelligent, réfléchi, tactique»», observe Me Bernard Boulloud, conseil de la famille Noyer.He is the only lawyer for civil parties to have attended the interrogations led by the investigating judge."He was still polite, courteous.He is a former soldier with cold, imperturbable blood, who perfectly masters human codes and his file. Surtout, il jouit de la souffrance des autres…»»

So far, the accused, equivocal to the circumstances of Maëlys' death, denies any sexual assault.The latter's parents, divorced for a few months, defended by Me Rajon and Laurent Boguet, do not believe in his defense. « On n’attend rien de lui»», lâche Séverine, tante maternelle de la petite fille.At the helm, during the walnut trial, Nordahl Lelandais had launched: "The dog is an animal that is part of me.»» Selon une autre expertise psychique, le prisonnier assimilerait « leur animalité, leurs instincts, perdant ainsi une part de son humanité»», réduisant ses « victimes à l’état d’objets qu’il pouvait laisser se décomposer en dehors de tout sentiment de honte ou de culpabilité»».François Danet, psychiatrist, will say: "If he advances in the sense of an authentic word, the risk is that he collapses psychologically.If it closes, there will be no path.It’s silence or an abysmal abyss.»» Quel chemin Nordahl Lelandais va-t-il cette fois emprunter ?

* The first name has been changed.

A mythomaniac

General Alain Lardet, general commander of the Legion in foreign, told us that Nordahl Lelandais had never been part of the Foreign Legion."It's a mythomaniac," he told us.