the little girl’s mother recounts her last moments with her

The Maëlys case had moved the whole of France. A little girl kidnapped during a wedding party by Nordhal Lelandais during the evening of August 27, 2017. Five years after this tragedy, the child’s mother, Jennifer by Araujo agreed, in front of the cameras of “20 hours”, to tell his last moments with his daughter. “She came over to me, I asked her if she wanted to taste the dessert, she said yes”, she remembers. “She went back to play. I told her to go. I gave her a kiss on the cheek and that was the last time I saw her,” she says. After his disappearance, the wait was unbearable, until the day when Nordahl Lelandais, lead the police to the girl’s body. “He made us wait months and months before we found her. He threw it in nature like wasteand. Everything is calculated and done on purpose, so that there is as little evidence as possible on her”, she explains.

The 38-year-old former military dog ​​handler is to be tried from January 31 before the Isère Assize Court for the murder preceded by the kidnapping and kidnapping of the 8-year-old child. He faces life imprisonment. The family of Maëlys De Araujo sees this trial as a “terrible ordeal” and wait for justice to take “the full extent of Nordahl Lelandais’ dangerousness”, according to Fabien Rajon, who defends in particular the mother and the sister of the girl.