In recent months, Nordahl Lelandais has often made the headlines. In May 2021, the former soldier was sentenced by the Assize Court of Savoy to 20 years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of Arthur Noyer. To date, he is serving his sentence in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier prison in Isère. “We will not appeal, we are not going to search souls now, that’s all…”, said Alain Jakubowiz, his lawyer for France Blue last May. “A trial like this is a test for everyone, for all involved. “There is no victory and there is no defeat […]. It must be accepted, it is justice, it has been done ”.
At the start of the week, our colleagues from Dauphiné Liberated announced that the criminal would have tried to surround the prison staff on Monday, December 6, 2021. During an unexpected search, the peacekeepers found a cell phone with an active SIM card. The switched on cell phone was said to have been hidden under the covers of his bed.
Always according to the Dauphine, the object in question was immediately seized. Before being handed over to the gendarmes as part of an investigation for “Concealment”. To this day, no one knows how the ex-dog handler got the phone. According to the latest news, the investigators would like to know the identity of the people with whom Nordahl Lelandais could have communicated.
On January 31, 2022, the criminal will appear at the Assizes for the Maëlys de Araujo case. As a reminder, the girl disappeared during a wedding in 2017. Over the course of the investigations, Nordahl Lelandais had ended up confessing his murder. Under his instructions, the investigators had found the bones of the victim in the Chartreuse massif. AFP also announced that the Grenoble Court of Appeal is orchestrating another trial on February 11, 2022. The young man is also being prosecuted for “Offenses of sexual assault on two cousins […], minors of 15 years and for possession and recording of child pornography images ”.
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