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3:12 p.m. : “He fooled us for six months, six months to wait, unbearable. To tell a lot of lies. We are here to judge him, finally, after four years. I am strong and I am here for my daughter, for let no one forget,” says Jennifer de Araujo. #Lelandais
3:12 p.m. : “We find her bones. He threw her like waste in nature. He left her to be devoured by animals”, says Jennifer de Araujo. #Lelandais
3:12 p.m. : Jennifer de Araujo: “On February 14, the day of love, he (#Lelandais) decides to say where Maëlys is and to admit that he killed her involuntarily according to him. It’s a day of love. anguish, stress. My daughter had hope that her sister was still alive”.
3:11 p.m. : She recounts the moment when the little girl disappeared. “It feels like a movie, everyone was happy, everyone was having fun. They tell me ‘she ran away’ but I say ‘it’s not possible that she ran away’. And if it had been an accident, we would have found her.”
3:11 p.m. : “I will never know your first lover, you had a lot of things to accomplish, a lot of dreams to achieve. Life is so unfair. You were a very beautiful girl, even if you doubted it sometimes. I am proud of you. to have given birth, to have been your mother”, she continues
3:11 p.m. : She is reading a text. “You were my ray of sunshine, on that August night, you had your whole life ahead of you, and at a wedding, everything changed. How to live without you? place but this monster has decided otherwise.”
3:11 p.m. : The hearing resumes. Maëlys de Araujo’s mother takes the stand. Loose hair, red dress. Next to her stands her lawyer, Me Rajon. #Lelandais
3:10 p.m. : Return to Grenoble, where the trial of Nordahl Lelandais is taking place. The parents of little Maëlys speak at the bar, reports our journalist Juliette Campion.
2:24 p.m. : A few minutes ago, Nordahl #Lelandais clearly admitted having committed pedophile acts, under the questions of Yves Crespin. “The word was released: ‘paedophilia’. The facts are pedophile acts”, insists Me Jakubowicz.
3:09 p.m. : Questioned on the fifth and sixth day of his trial for the murder of little Maëlys in 2017, the 38-year-old former soldier was confronted with the testimonies of the parents of one of the little cousins and very raw videos of his actions , which shocked the audience during their screening.
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3:09 p.m. : Return to Grenoble, where Nordahl Lelandais admitted to having felt inclinations “pedophiles” against two of his little cousins, whom he is accused of having sexually assaulted.
1:09 p.m. : “Can you tell us that there is nothing else about little girls than what has been viewed? Neither before nor after?” asks Yves Crespin, lawyer for the associations L’Enfant bleu and La voix de the child, civil parties in the trial. “Yes of course”, answers #Lelandais.
1:09 p.m. “Once, twice? Three times? “Why not stop?” Nordahl #Lelandais retorts.
1:09 p.m. : The lawyer asks if he has anything to say to Marie’s parents. “I’m sorry, they are in no way responsible for it. The little ones even less. It’s my responsibility, it’s me who committed the facts”, declares Nordahl #Lelandais.
1:09 p.m. : Nordahl #Lelandais is invited to stand up. Me Caroline Rémond, the lawyer for the parents of the little cousins, asks him why he did not watch the projection of the videos of the sexual assaults committed on them. “Because I find them horrible,” replies the accused.
1:09 p.m. : Return to Grenoble, where the trial of Nordahl Lelandais is taking place. Our journalist Juliette Campion is on site.
10:57 : “We informed our daughter, a week before the start of the trial, it was extremely hard, painful. We asked her questions”, explains the father of Marie #Lelandais
10:57 : “We were summoned by the gendarmerie. Before being summoned, we spoke with our daughters, we were trying to find out if something had happened. And there, the gendarme said to me ‘we have the videos’ “. His voice twists. “There, it was atrocious”. #Lelandais
10:57 : He remembers when Nordahl #Lelandais was first taken into custody. “We say to ourselves it’s impossible, there must be a mistake. When he confessed the facts, it was a crazy thing, we cut ties with him, with his family”, says Marie’s father.
10:57 : Nordahl #Lelandais assured that Marie’s mother had asked him to get his jacket in the bedroom of the sleeping children. “My wife would never have asked to get a jacket or anything from our daughters’ room for fear of waking them up. That’s adamant.”
10:57 : Marie’s father is questioned about the night of his granddaughter’s assault. That evening, the family made a Savoyard fondue and had a last drink on the terrace of Nordahl’s mother #Lelandais. “We were leaving the next day, we didn’t stay up super late,” he said.
10:57 : This morning, we hear from the parents of the second cousin of Nordahl #Lelandais, whom he is accused of having sexually assaulted in August 2017, a week before the murder of #Maëlys.
10:57 : The trial of Nordahl Lelandais resumed this morning in Grenoble. Our journalist Juliette Campion is on site.