THE CASES IN WHICH THE NAME OF NORDAHL LELANDAIS IS MENTIONED
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The
Maëlys case has turned into a
Nordahl Lelandais affair. The number one suspect in the kidnapping and murder of this girl, who disappeared during a marriage in Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère) last August, is now under investigation in another case: the murder of a military officer, Arthur Noyer, who has not given any sign of life since the night of 11 to 12 April. Although the body of the child has still not been recovered, the DNA of the corporal was identified on part of a skull that was found in September by a hiker.
In addition to these two files, the name of this 34 year old dog handler is now quoted in several cold cases. No wonder, according to Annecy's attorney, Véronique Denizot. "In the hypothesis that Nordahl Lelandais is a serial criminal, all possible connections with other unsolved cases in the same geographical area will be explored," the magistrate explained to franceinfo.
Here are, at this stage, the cases in which Nordahl Lelandais is implicated and those that will be re-examined, in search of a possible link with the ex-military.
Maëlys, 9 years old, disappeared at Pont-de-Beauvoisin in August 2017
The facts. It is 2:45 a. m., according to the prosecutor of Grenoble, when little Maëlys, 9 years old, vanishes from the party hall of Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Savoie), where a wedding is celebrated. She has never reappeared since the night of August 26-27. Nordahl Lelandais is one of the guests and has been seen several times chatting with the girl, showing her pictures of his dogs on his mobile phone.
The link with Nordahl Lelandais. He is indicted for "kidnapping and sequestration" followed by "murder". At "2h46 and 12 seconds", the former soldier puts his telephone in "plane mode", according to the prosecutor of Grenoble. At 2:47 am, a car corresponding to his Audi A3 is filmed in the city centre of Pont-de-Beauvoisin. According to the prosecution, the surveillance cameras distinguish "on the front passenger seat (...) a frail, small figure dressed in a white dress". "At 3:24 and 29 seconds, the vehicle is again filmed in opposite direction. The driver is then alone in the car," the prosecutor says.
Among the other items that weigh on the ex-military, are the presence of the child's DNA on the dashboard of the car and the meticulous cleaning of the vehicle the day after the party. Yet, Nordahl Lelandais denies it en bloc. His lawyer, Alain Jakubowicz, formally contests the prosecutor's chronology: "We know with near certainty that no one is worried about Maëlys' disappearance until 3:30 a. m." he argues. However,"the prosecution's whole accusation is based on the assumption that the child disappeared at 2:45 a. m." According to him, the silhouette in the front of the car is not that of a child but of a woman.
Arthur Noyer, 23 years old, disappeared in April 2017 in Chambéry
The facts. This young corporal was last seen around 4 a. m. on the night of April 11 to 12, while hitchhiking in Chambéry (Savoie). He tries to reach his barracks in Barby, a few kilometres away, after spending the evening in a nightclub in a lively part of the city. For months, his family stirred heaven and earth to try to find him. His DNA has been identified.
The link with Nordahl Lelandais. He's being indicted for murder. Chambéry's prosecutor, Thierry Dran, pointed to "serious and consistent clues". The first troubling element: the telephones of the former dog-handler and the soldier "bounded" in the same place and at the same time between 23:48 and 3:41. Then, Arthur Noyer's cell phone went off at the end of the night, approximately around 5am. According to Le Parisien, a witness reportedly saw Nordahl Lelandais in the discotheque where the soldier was last seen. One of his former girlfriends also says he was a regular visitor to the establishment. Another key point of the investigation: "The video surveillance footage showed that the vehicle of Lelandais[a black Audi A3] was at 2h58 in Chambéry, then at 3h08 on the commune of Saint-Baldoph," the prosecutor said.
The suspect contested "all the facts while admitting to have been in Chambéry and Saint-Baldoph" at the same time as the corporal the night of his disappearance. New investigations will be carried out at the site where the bone was discovered. Solicited by franceinfo, lawyer Alain Jakubowicz did not wish to comment on this new case.
Adrien Mourialmé, 24 years old, disappeared in July 2017 on the shores of Lake Annecy.
The facts. On 5 July, Adrien Mourialmé, a young Belgian cook employed in a hotel and restaurant in Talloires-Montmin (Haute-Savoie), on the shores of Lake Annecy, does not show up for work. Originally from Namur, the 24-year-old young man, a former employee of a candidate from the "Top Chef" show, has just landed this job in June, in order to set aside money to open his own business. In Le Parisien, his mother Patricia explains that her last telephone conversation with her son was on July 4. That day, this hiking enthusiast says he took "great pictures of the area". Then it's radio silence.
Adrien Mourialmé seems to have vanished without taking his belongings with him. "He only took a few clothes, a little backpack and a pair of sneakers. His suitcase, hiking shoes and kitchen gear remained in his hotel room," his mother explains in the Ile-de-France newspaper. Neither his phone nor his bank account have since then showed any movement. The Annecy Public Prosecutor's Office opens a judicial inquiry on 8 July. Since then, the cook's family has had no new information.
The link with Nordahl Lelandais. The geographical and temporal proximity with the disappearances of the Maëlys girl and 23-year-old Arthur Noyer's soldier warrant verification, the prosecutor of Annecy told franceinfo. But at this stage, no link is established.
Ahmed Hamadou, 45, disappeared in September 2012 at Fort Tamié.
The facts. It is 5 a. m., in the night of September 7 to 8, below Fort Tamié, about ten kilometres from Albertville (Savoie), when Ahmed Hamadou was last seen. That evening, the electro rhythms resonate in these 19th century fortifications in the heart of the Alps. This is the third edition of the Elements festival. Ahmed Hamadou is accompanied by another man, Yan Kersuzan.
"They were skidding in the parking lot and behaving aggressively. Security did not let them enter the site and even warned the local gendarmerie. They never came to the party," according to David de Sousa, festival organizer, to the Dauphiné Liberé. After this argument and in these fuzzy circumstances, Yan and Ahmed split up. In the early morning, Yan returns with his car to a common friend in Chambéry, reports Le Dauphiné Libéré. Ahmed, on the other hand, vanishes into thin air.
His family is very worried. A year earlier, Jean-Christophe Morin, a 23-year-old young man, disappeared at the same place during the second edition of the festival. The search had to be abandoned. The two cases, which were heard by two different gendarmeries, those of Sallanches and Albertville, were never reconciled because of a lack of concurring evidence.
The link with Nordahl Lelandais. A cousin of Ahmed Hamadou's cousin, Abdallah Hamadou, assured France 3 that Nordahl and Ahmed "knew each other by sight". The two men lived a few kilometres apart. Farida Hamadou, Ahmed's sister, is waiting for a lot of new checks, according to France 2, by the gendarmes to establish or not a link with the former dog-handler.
Jean-Christophe Morin, 23, disappeared in September 2011 at Fort Tamié.
The facts. It is about 3 a. m. in the night of September 9 to 10, when a last witness sees Jean-Christophe Morin leaving the second edition of the Elements festival, at Fort de Tamié (Savoie). This 23-year-old young man, who lives in Sallanches, had come with friends. According to France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, he seems to be worried at the time of his departure. Three days later, his girlfriend and older sister, with no news, reported him missing. The searches carried out a few days later do not yield anything. Dogs scour the area, but they can't find him. Only his backpack was found near a container at the end of September.
In October, the gendarmes flew over the area in a helicopter and then continued to explore with the help of a dog team. Volunteers are involved in the searches. In vain. Investigations carried out by the Albertville gendarmerie were interrupted, but the investigation remained open to the Sallanches brigade. "In the weeks that followed the disappearance of Jean-Christophe Morin, everything was carried out in every detail, even to the point of retrieving his DNA trace," an investigator tells the Dauphiné Libéré. "We hoped the hunters would find new elements, but nothing. Today, he remains on the missing persons list", another gendarme assures in the local daily newspaper.
In 2013, Jean-Christophe Morin's family covered 600 km from the Essonne in order to go back on his last steps. Her sister Adeline stirred "heaven and earth", distributed flyers, glued posters, created a page on Facebook... No result.
The link with Nordahl Lelandais. According to France 2, investigations will be re-launched in view of the geographical proximity of this disappearance with the places frequented by Nordahl Lelandais. "Jean-Christophe Morin's father, contacted by franceinfo, reacted on the phone. Daniel Morin had not yet been informed by the gendarmes on Wednesday, December 20, of this possible connection. "If they reopen the case, it's already a big step forward," he says.
Other unresolved cases, including Estelle Mouzin and the Chevaline killings
The work by the interviewers to cross-check with other cold cases should not stop there. A possible involvement of Nordahl Lelandais in the Chevaline killings (Haute-Savoie) is even envisaged by the investigators. A few days before Ahmed Hamadou's disappearance, the British Al-Hilli family is on vacation on the shores of Lake Annecy. On 5 September 2012, on a logging road, the father, mother and grandmother were found shot dead in their car. A French cyclist who was passing by was also among the victims. After five years of investigation, the murderer has still not been identified. The trail of a former soldier was evoked by the gendarmes at the time because the murder weapon, a 7.65 caliber Luger P06, is a pistol that equipped the Swiss army.
"We have an individual suspected of kidnapping and killing a girl and a soldier in the same area. I am not surprised that we are going to check if he is not related to Chevaline", a judicial source points out to franceinfo.
"We will obviously look into the matter," the prosecutor from Annecy , Véronique Denizot, confirms. She added: "But there are other priority files, which correspond more to the same modus operandi, with a disappearance at night." "If he were behind Chevaline, he'd be really multi-card [ jack of many trades ] ," another judge adds, doubtful. After the two unexplained disappearances at Fort Tamié, the investigators of the Chevaline killings had already brought the three cases together to see if, beyond the close geography and the concordance of the dates, nothing else could tie them together. But, as the local newspaper Le Messager reports, this track had not yielded anything.
Beyond Savoie and Haute-Savoie, the gendarmes should scrutinize unresolved cases in the Marne sector. Nordahl Lelandais was stationed in Suippes, in the 132nd Army Dog Battalion, between 2002 and 2007. The lawyers of Estelle Mouzin's father, who disappeared in January 2003 in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne), 170 km away, tell franceinfo that they asked the judges in September for checks on Nordahl Lelandais.
"When we went back to Michel Fourniret's career, we checked the whole of France," Véronique Denizot comments. "One and the same investigation unit, mobilising gendarmes from different geographical units, could therefore be dedicated to Nordahl Lelandais, as has been done for Francis Heaulme, nicknamed the "criminal backpacker."
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