Your year 2017 begins with a quarrel with a motorist at a car wash, who sees you appear before magistrates (in June, Editor’s note). It continues with the death of Arthur Noyer, sexual assaults on cousins, and finally, it ends with the death of Maëlys. How do you explain this journey between February and August 2017?
The president of the Assize Court of Savoy questioned, this Friday, May 7, 2021, the accused Nordahl Lelandais, and the frame is set.
Mr. President, I do not understand, the 30-something calmly repeats. I was wandering, my friends were moving on with their lives and I was stagnating. I got lost that year. I had no goal.
Returned to court for the murder of Corporal Arthur Noyer, 23, in April 2017, Nordahl Lelandais did not change his version since the opening of the trial : according to him, Arthur Noyer died following a fight, started by two blows given by the soldier and caused by a futile motive. A version not contradicted by the objective elements of the file, but which makes more than one doubt.
“Relieve yourself of the truth”
His former great friends urged Nordahl Lelandais to say what happened that full moon night: The damage is done. Live what you have left to live lighter, relieve yourself of the truth.
Arthur Noyer’s family too, Thursday May 6. Like his grandmother, a little woman who suddenly planted her two feet in the ground, facing the accused: Look me in the eye! I would like you to tell me the truth. You took away a loved one from us …
Tirelessly, Nordahl Lelandais repeats it: I never wanted to kill him. Never, never, never
. Maybe … The Assize Court will rule on this. But then there remains the question of his behavior after the death of Arthur Noyer. Why didn’t he call for help? I didn’t have an emotion manual, and I didn’t know what to do.
The question of why also remains. You had all the elements to be happy, Me Jakubowicz reminds him: a loving family, friends that many would like to have, some success with the fairer sex and, it’s also true, quite a bit of hair in the hand.
And his lawyer to continue: Alright, alcohol, drugs, but what’s really going on?
In the box, there is like a silence.
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