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8:28 p.m. : “I recognize all the facts with which I am charged”, said, calmly, Nordahl #Lelandais. For the record, he is only repeating word for word the sentence pronounced just before by Mr. Jakubowicz. “I wish you would say it!” “, urged the defendant’s lawyer.
8:28 p.m. “Are you aware of having sexually abused your tiny cousins?” And to have filmed? “, Asks his lawyer. “Yes”, replies dryly Nordahl #Lelandais
8:28 p.m. : “You voluntarily killed Maëlys. The term accident offended the family,” said Mr. Jakubowicz. “I voluntarily killed Maëlys. I recognize it, ”admits Nordahl #Lelandais
8:28 p.m. : A journalist from LCI follows the hearing and provides details.
8:23 p.m. : During his trial, Nordahl Lelandais acknowledges having “voluntarily” kill Maëlys and have him “removed”.
8:01 p.m. : Here is the main information at 8 p.m.:
EU sanctions in the event of Russian intervention in Ukraine will hit the financial and energy sectors, as well as exports of high-tech products, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced.
• It recognizes claims “legitimate” but evokes a “need for harmony”. In an interview at West FranceEmmanuel Macron calls “in the greatest calm” the participants of the “freedom convoy”, who intend to arrive in Paris this evening.
• The 27 Member States of the European Union and 13 other countries have formed a coalition to conclude an ambitious treaty intended to protect the high seas, announced Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen, during the One Ocean Summit in Brest. Here’s what to remember about commitments.
• Nordahl Lelandais admitted during his trial for the murder of little Maëlys having given him “willing blows”. But he categorically denied wanting to sexually assault or kill her.
6:22 p.m. : Here is the update on the news at 6 p.m.:
Will the members of the “freedom convoy” manage to reach Paris in an attempt to imitate the Canadian truckers blocking Ottawa? The police have in any case deployed an important device to prevent this gathering.
• Nordahl Lelandais admitted during his trial for the murder of little Maëlys to have given him “willing blows”. But he categorically denied wanting to sexually assault or kill her.
• The 27 Member States of the European Union and 13 other countries have formed a coalition to conclude an ambitious treaty intended to protect the high seas, announced Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen, during the One Ocean Summit in Brest.
• One “improvised explosive device” is indeed at the origin of the explosion of a vehicle two days before the start of the Dakar 2022 in Saudi Arabia, learned franceinfo from a source familiar with the matter.
5:20 p.m. : “The question is: ‘when we carry 3, 4 blows on a little girl who weighs 28 kilos, [vous savez que] does that inevitably lead to his death?”, reiterates the president. “That’s what unfortunately it will cause yes”, replies Nordahl #Lelandais
5:19 p.m. : She insists: “Was she scared when she asked to go back to the wedding?” Answer: “She must have realized, as a little girl, that she was stupid to leave like that in the night.” #Lelandais
5:19 p.m. : The president: “What are the last words she says?”. #Lelandais: “At that time, there is a silence. I have no memories of what is said, what is happening” The president: “Is she screaming?” #Lelandais: “No there’s no shouting no”
5:19 p.m. : The president points out to him that the investigators estimated, according to what was seen on the cameras, that he had killed Maëlys after four minutes. “After four minutes, you killed Maëlys?”. “If you tell me it’s been four minutes, that’s it,” he admits.
5:49 p.m. : The president points out that no one saw him leave with Maëlys, when there were people there all the time at the wedding, he himself said so. She tries to find out how it’s possible #Lelandais
5:18 p.m. : The president resumes every moment of the evening, as described by Nordahl #Lelandais. It’s tedious but necessary… Even if the accused maintains his version on each point.
6:05 p.m. : Nordahl Lelandais admitted earlier this afternoon to having worn “willing blows” to Maëlys de Araujo, but categorically denied having wanted to sexually assault or kill her. He is now answering questions from the President on the course of events. Our journalist Juliette Campion is on site.
3:30 p.m. : “But I had no intention of killing, I don’t know what happened. But it was me, of course it was me who did it. From there, I don’t didn’t know where I was anymore, I didn’t know… I drove for a few minutes and I stopped on a climb.” #Lelandais
3:29 p.m. : “And at that moment I don’t know what happened, I turned my head. In April 2017, I had already killed a man. It’s something I had in mind constantly” #Lelandais
3:29 p.m. “She says: ‘I asked my mum, she told me that I could see the dogs’. She opens the door. I admit that it’s crazy, I don’t know this little one, but I had no bad intentions.” Nordahl #Lelandais speaks very calmly.
3:29 p.m. “I’m going to leave, little Maëlys comes next to my car, I had the windows open and wonder if I’m going to get my dogs. I say: ‘I’m going home, yes I’m going to see my dogs’. She asks me: ‘I’m going to see them'” #Lelandais
3:28 p.m. : A moment “I displayed my home button” on his laptop “where there were my two dogs on the screen. The little girl asked me if it was my dogs. I answered: ‘yes yes these are my dogs.’ I asked her if she had any dogs.” #Lelandais
3:28 p.m. : He recounts the evening of the wedding, the wine reception first then the end of the evening, where he returned at the time of the cake. “At some point, this little girl Maëlys passed behind me, I had never seen her”, continues Nordahl #Lelandais
3:28 p.m. : “First of all I wanted to apologize to the family of Maëlys. I will come back to what happened. I also know that it is difficult for this family to believe me because I have varied a lot in my statements. I can understand it”, he says #Lelandais
3:27 p.m. : Nordahl #Lelandais gets up. “Mr. Lelandais, it’s time to explain to you, you have the floor,” said the president.
5:53 p.m. : Return to Grenoble. The hearing resumes with the interrogation of Nordahl Lelandais, who is currently explaining the course of the night of the murder of Maëlys de Araujo. Our journalist Juliette Campion is on site.
12:15 p.m. “Everyone who knows you can’t believe what you’re saying, you’re locking yourself into something. I hope you’ll explain yourself and not the way you’ve done so far !”, insists Julien F. #Lelandais
12:15 p.m. “So explain myself, I have to do it this afternoon, in front of you who are judging me today, I have to explain everything”, declares the accused. But he doesn’t seem willing to change anything from his initial version. “Whatever I say, I will not be believed,” he warns.
12:15 p.m. : “I know very well that no one will believe me on what I can say, I heard it this morning, even my emotions, we do not believe them”, continues Nordahl #Lelandais
12:14 p.m. : Nordahl #Lelandais answers him. “Don’t feel guilty about anything: what happened is my fault, you are in no way responsible Julien”, he told him standing in his box.
12:14 p.m. : “Make sure to provide answers because, in what you have been able to provide as explanations, there is nothing valid. At least for his family, try to bring something so that we can to believe you. To go see your dogs, right?” #Lelandais
12:14 p.m. : New highlight at the trial of Nordahl Lelandais. One of his old friends speaks directly to him.
11:03 am : “It will not please the defense but I will say it anyway: I had the feeling that it was cinema. Like the parents of Maëlys”, loose the former prosecutor of Grenoble #Lelandais
11:03 am : He tells the reaction of Nordahl #Lelandais at the time of the discovery of the remains of little Maëlys, in February 2018. “He returned to the edge of the field after talking to his lawyer. He knelt down and cried asking for forgiveness”.
11:03 am : “He lent me his office. I asked my assistant to leave me alone, I felt overwhelmed with emotion and I didn’t want to. I meditated for a few moments, I threw two three ideas on paper and I went to hold this press conference”, says JY Coquillat.
11:03 am : He tells the minutes which preceded the press conference, the day when the remains of the little one were found. “When I arrived in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, I parked my car, the mayor was waiting for me, I told him that I needed to concentrate”.
11:03 am : “The emotion, I felt it. It was the first time that I arrived at a press conference when there was dead silence. And I saw journalists crying. This emotion did not m was not clean”, he declares #Lelandais
11:03 am : “This question brings me back to the day when we discovered the remains of Maëlys. It was a very long, difficult day, and at the end of the day (…) I held a press conference”, is remembers the former prosecutor of Grenoble #Lelandais
11:03 am : At the hearing, the former prosecutor of Grenoble, Jean-Yves Coquillat returns to the discovery of the body of Maëlys.
10:59 : The mystery on the last moments of Maëlys remains whole, in spite of the lighting of the scientific experts. Summary of yesterday’s hearing, by our journalist Juliette Campion.
(ELISABETH DE POURQUERY / FRANCE TELEVISIONS)