They wanted to express themselves. The parents of Arthur Noyer, killed by Nordahl Lelandais one night in April 2017 in Chambéry (Savoie), sent a letter to Fabien Rajon, the lawyer for Maëlys de Araujo’s mother, to ask the accused, currently on trial before the Assize Court of Isère , to stop distorting the reality around the death of their son. During this trial, the former dog handler spoke of a “fight gone wrong”. He was however sentenced in May 2021 to twenty years in prison for this murder.
“What game are you playing ?” are indignant Didier and Cécile Noyer, in this “correspondence” read at the bar, Wednesday February 16, by Fabien Rajon during his argument. “Do you consider yourself above the law to continue to say ‘yes I killed without intending to kill’? No, it’s not an altercation, a fight, it’s murder !”they fume in the missive “a page and a half”dated February 14 and of which they requested “a thorough reading” to the lawyer. “You have committed murder, you have been tried and you have not appealed, so you are a murderer”write the parents of Arthur Noyer.
During the hearing which opened on January 31 in Grenoble, Nordahl Lelandais repeatedly invoked a “hallucination” to explain his sudden murderous impulse on little Maëlys. “I see Arthur Noyer’s face and fear suddenly arises. I want this fear to stop”he repeated on Tuesday, facing the president of the assize court. “Stop using Arthur. You have no empathy, you have not changed, you will remain an evildoer, a manipulator, a coward”protest the parents of the corporal, killed at the age of 23.
Are the 10 m2 of your cell less livable than the 2 m2 of Arthur’s tomb?
Didier and Cecile Noyerin a letter read at the hearing
“We remember the beautiful faces, the sweet smiles and the sparkling eyes of our children. May the faces of your victims, of our children who died under your hands, haunt you for eternity”insists the couple, originally from Bourges. “As for your apologies, we always refuse them. (…) We keep faith in our justice”they conclude, before addressing “strength and courage to the family of Maëlys”.