three days of hearing to try to determine the personality of the accused

During these first three days of hearings, the Court focused on identify the personality of Nordahl Lelandais. There was the personality investigator who came to present her report, retracing the life of the accused. Then, the old companions, the old friends came to tell the man they had known, sometimes for many years. And the word that came back in their words is: misunderstanding

The accused talked about him for 5 hours

This Wednesday afternoon from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., it was Nordahl Lelandais who gave himself up, easily, answering questions from the President of the Court about his childhood, his school career, his time in the army, his failures professional and sentimental.

“We have the pieces of the puzzle“said the magistrate to him”But who are you, Mr. Lelandais?

And there, the former dog handler pauses, pouts and says: “It is complicated. I know what I no longer want to be, I do psychological work in prison, but today I am in the box of an assize court to answer for very serious facts.“

For the lawyers of the civil parties, Lelandais has not changed

To understand how he was able to switch to crime during the year 2017, he invokes the consumption of drugs and alcohol, the regular consultation of pornographic sites. “Corn I have never been on child pornography sites“ he asserted to his lawyer who questioned him on this point.

However, we learned that in prison, even if he reads a lot of books on Buddhism, he continues to go on porn sites, in the teenage section, points out Maitre Rajon, the lawyer for Maëlys’ mother. . “It’s ambiguous. This shows that in prison, _it has not changed, not evolved_. He remains attracted to young girls. He’s still dangerous.”

Maitre Boguet, the lawyer for Maëlys’ mother, agrees with his colleague: “Nordahl Lelandais is one of those people who talk a lot but say nothing. We still don’t know what is the psychological spring which caused him to kill Corporal Noyer and that four months later he will kidnap and kill little Maëlys.

On the bench of the civil parties, the parents of Maëlys remain stoic. Jennifer Cleyet-Marel is seated near her eldest daughter, Colleen, and she has not left the portrait of Maëlys, which she holds against her, since the start of the trial.