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Procès Nordahl Lelandais : la sérénité de l’audience et les mystères d’un tueur

A chronicle in five episodes. Nordahl Lelandais was sentenced on Tuesday 11 May to twenty years imprisonment for the murder of Corporal Arthur Noyer. Our journalist Henri Seckel followed the hearing day after day.

It is almost a surprise. The first trial of Nordahl Lelandais, before the Court of Assizes of Savoy, took place as a normal trial. The accused was found guilty of the murder of Arthur Noyer and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, Tuesday 11 May, in the serene atmosphere of a judicial precinct, at the antipodes of the media frenzy that surrounds him since his first steps as a suspect in the Maëlys case - for which he will be tried in 2022 in Grenoble.

The defence hoped to obtain a reclassification of the facts as "violence leading to death without intent to kill" - a maximum of fifteen years in prison - but the court considered that there was indeed an intention to kill. Even if the absence of a body, crime scene or witness made it impossible to reconstruct the drama, the jurors did not believe the version put forward by the accused of a brawl gone wrong, which was plagued by too many inconsistencies.

For the defence, led by Alain Jakubowicz, the essential was perhaps elsewhere: to deconstruct the myth of the "monster" Nordahl Lelandais, something they accomplished with success. The Attorney General, after recalling that the accused was not, to date, linked to any of the dozens of investigations reopened in recent years, has herself emphasized the power of the testimony of his former friends on the stand: they have "given Nordahl Lelandais this part of humanity that seemed to have disappeared for three years.

If you have missed some of our journalist Henri Seckel's columns, here is the story of these five days of hearings.

Day 1 | The operation of dediabolisation

On Monday 3 May, on the first day of his trial, the 38 year old accused, judged by the Savoy Court of Assizes, attempted to offer a peaceful image far from that which has accompanied him since the death of little Maëlys, whom he also admitted to have killed.

Day 2 | The parade of exes and the frontier of indecency

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The day of Tuesday, May 4, plunged the assizes of Savoy into the most intimate details of the sexual life of the accused and witnesses, causing great embarrassment.

Day 3 | " Unburden yourself of the truth."

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On Wednesday, three former relatives of the accused took the stand to urge him to speak and to bring tears to his eyes, still in the absence of a new confession.

Day 4 | The impossible reconstruction of the death of Arthur Noyer

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Nordahl Lelandais is the only one who knows how the young man died, and his version does not convince anyone. The mystery of the Noyer case - and the same difficulty will arise at the trial concerning the death of Maëlys - remains insoluble. No witness, no body, an accused with zero credibility: a terrible equation.

Day 5 : Four hours of interrogation for nothing

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Questioned for four hours, Friday, May 7, on the course of the night of 11 to 12 April 2017, during which he killed Corporal Arthur Noyer, Nordahl Lelandais did not deliver any new information to the jurors of the assizes of Savoy.

The hour of the verdict | The monster has disappeared, the mystery remains

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The Assizes of Savoie found Nordahl Lelandais guilty of having voluntarily killed Arthur Noyer in 2017. He was sentenced to twenty years of criminal imprisonment. But without a body, a crime scene or a witness, it is still not known how, why or where the corporal was murdered.


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Disparition d'Éric Foray : son compagnon enfin reçu par le juge d'instruction de Valence

Disappearance of Eric Foray: his partner finally received by the investigating judge of Valence

Régis Pique, the partner of Eric Foray who has been missing for nearly five years, was received by the investigating judge in Valence this Thursday morning. A great relief after more than a year of waiting.

"It feels good to finally be supported and listened to," Régis Pique tells us. Almost five years after the disappearance of his 47-year-old companion Eric Foray in Chatuzange-le-Goubet in the Drôme, he was received this Thursday morning by the investigating judge in Valence. For months he and several families of missing persons who may have a link with Nordahl Lelandais have been asking the magistrates for an update on their cases, in vain. They had made this known during a press conference on 13 February.

"Until then I really had the impression that I was not being heard, that I was speaking in a vacuum, that nobody cared," Régis Pique continues, relieved to finally have the certainty that investigations are underway and "that a real job is being done." The feeling is shared by the relatives of Nelly Balmain, who disappeared in 2011 in Saint-Jean-en-Royans, in the Drôme. They were seen by the investigating judge in Valence on Wednesday.

Their lawyer, Bernard Boulloud, said he had obtained information from the file which he will be able to study closely. "This investigation could last several more months as there are so many leads. In this case, as in that of Nelly Balmain, the Lelandais trail was evoked because there was a geographical and temporal link but I never believed in it and I still do not believe in it," the lawyer said.

A few weeks ago, another request from Régis Pique and relatives of the missing in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region was granted. The ARPD association (Assistance and Research for Missing Persons) of which they are members will be associated with the working group created by the Grenoble prosecutor general on the question of 'cold cases'. The first meeting will take place in Lyon on 3 July.


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From an earlier post, interview with Maître Boulloud:

In the Valence region, another predator may have been active. I am thinking of the case of Nelly Balmain, who disappeared while riding her scooter in Saint-Jean-en-Royans on 8 August 2011, and the case of Eric Foray, who disappeared on board his 4x4 in Chatuzange-le-Goubet on 16 September 2016. Geographically, the two disappearances are very close and each time neither the person nor the vehicle was found.
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Procès Lelandais : les affaires pour lesquelles il est poursuivi et celles où l'on s'interroge encore

In 2018, one year after the disappearances of Arthur Noyer and Maëlys De Araujo, a special cell was created by the national gendarmerie, the Ariane cell. Seven gendarmes, based in Pontoise, in the Paris region, delve into twenty years of disturbing disappearances, unsolved homicides and unidentified corpses. They sift through Nordahl Lelandais' life, his movements, his phone lines, his bank statements and cross-reference this data with the geographical areas of the worrying disappearances and any new information.

This Arianne cell acts as a "radar that detects a positive echo": it does not "have the vocation" to investigate these cases itself, but will report these cases to the competent magistrates and investigators and open "new leads", Jean Philippe Lecouffe, deputy director of the judicial police of the National Gendarmerie, had specified at a press conference in February 2019.

After thirteen months of work and more than 900 cases examined, the Ariane unit retained 40 "cold-cases", then, finally, 14 files were judged to have priority: these were thirteen disappearances and one suspicious death.

The management of the national gendarmerie refused to communicate more precisely on these cases, but at the top of the pile are most probably the cases of the disappearances of Jean-Christophe Morin and Ahmed Hamadou at the fort of Tamié, in Savoie, that of Adrien Fiorello in 2010 and the death of Thomas Rauschkolb, in 2015.

Jean-Christophe Morin disappeared during an electro party at the Fort de Tamié, Savoie, in September 2011. According to his family and a witness at the time, on the evening of his disappearance, the young man was in a panic and said that "someone wanted to hurt him". Afterwards, he never gave any sign of life. In addition, the sister of Jean-Christophe Morin knows Sven Lelandais, the brother of Nordahl Lelandais. The latter asked her for help in 2016 to find a seasonal job.

A year later, in September 2012, Ahmed Hamadou, also disappeared at the electro festival "Element III" at Fort de Tamié, in Savoie. His skull was found in March 2021. In a video shot during this festival, dated 2012, families of the missing of Fort Tamié claim to recognize Nordahl Lelandais.

Another likely case is that of Adrien Fiorello. The 22-year-old law student left Firminy, in the Loire, in October 2010. His mobile phone went off at Chambéry station at 17:37 on the day of his disappearance. Chambéry where Nordahl Lelandais had a dog kennel. Since then, Adrien Fiorello has given no sign of life.

Finally, Thomas Rauschkolb was found dead in December 2015, outside a discotheque located between Chambéry and Aix-Les-Bains, in Savoie. He was 18 years old. His body was exhumed at the request of the courts in early March 2021.

The fourteen files deemed to be priorities were sent back to the various original investigative services for further work. Since then, the Ariane unit has been dissolved and replaced by a 'cold case division', still based in Cergy-Pontoise. This new cell is no longer specifically linked to the Lelandais cases, but tries to solve the unsolved crimes.


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L'avocat de la famille de Lucie Roux, disparue en 2012, assiste au procès pour explorer la piste Nordahl Lelandais

The lawyer for the family of Lucie Roux, who disappeared in 2012, attends the trial to explore the trail of Nordahl Lelandais

After attending the trial, Christian Saint-André is convinced that all the verifications concerning the possible presence of Nordahl Lelandais near the scene of the disappearance of Lucie Roux in 2012 have not been carried out. Justice had closed the case without action in late 2019.

He sat in his lawyer's robe at the back of the room of the Senate of Savoy for two days. Attentive, Me Christian Saint-André listened to the various parties retrace the path of Nordahl Lelandais from his childhood until the night of April 2017 which ended with the death of Arthur Noyer. He does not have access to the file, so he came as a spectator to collect biographical elements on the former dog handler.

He has been defending the family of Lucie Roux for over eight years. This woman from Savoy disappeared on 16 September 2012 in Bassens, near Chambéry. Vanished. Since then, nothing. Except for a fight to keep this case alive in the face of the justice system, which has repeatedly shelved it.

The disappearance of Lucie Roux is part of the forty unsolved cases on which the Ariane cell investigated to see if the forty-year-old could have crossed the path of Nordahl Lelandais. Following these investigations, at the end of 2019, the justice system once again closed the case without further action.

However, Me Saint-André believes that there are still "a number of incredible grey areas."

"Since the arrest of Nordahl Lelandais, I have had calls from people close to Lucie Roux at the time of her disappearance who said they had seen Nordahl Lelandais in the hospital in Bassens. They say that perhaps Lucie had even eaten with him at the hospital table," the lawyer explained. According to the investigators, however, this is not possible. Nordahl Lelandais was not treated in Bassens at the same time as Lucie Roux.

It is true. But according to Christian Saint-André, this does not mean that their paths did not cross.

"This Tuesday morning, at the hearing, I heard the testimony of a former companion of Nordahl Lelandais who explained that she had lived with him in a flat from the beginning of 2013 rue Lucien Rose."

"But if you type the address into GPS software," the lawyer continued, "you will have the same surprise that I had when I found that this building is located roughly 500 meters as the crow flies from the hospital in Bassens."

We checked. Rue Lucien Rose is located a little over a kilometre from Bassens hospital, a quarter of an hour's walk (see map below). For the lawyer, it is very likely that Nordahl Lelandais regularly went to the hospital park to walk his two large dogs, "it is the nearest park."

"From January 2013, it seems to me a certainty. So did he go to this park before? I don't know, but in any case they can't continue to tell me that the witnesses are wrong."
On the other hand, "Lelandais also worked as an ambulance driver and I say to myself that perhaps he could have come to the hospital in Bassens, in that context"

"I am not saying that he is responsible but I continue to say that there is still something to look for before closing this case without further action," according to Mr. Saint-André, who hopes that "they looked in the phone of Nordahl Lelandais to see if there was any trace of Lucie's phone number."

The association Assistance et Recherche des Personnes Disparues also present at the trial
A painstaking task carried out in cooperation with Bernard Valézy, the national vice-president of the association Assistance et Recherche des Personnes Disparues.

In the absence of an official investigation, it is the former police commissioner who tries to explore all possible clues. He is also present in Chambéry to follow the proceedings of the trial of Nordahl Lelandais. He too believes that the Lelandais trail should be further investigated.

"The verifications made by our association show that, according to a testimony, Lucie Roux went to the cafeteria on two occasions and that in this cafeteria there was, not necessarily at the same table, someone who could resemble Nordahl Lelandais. A person with whom she never had an encounter and a person whom she did not appear to know. All of this is from her room mate who was with her on both occasions, so the links are very close," according to the former police officer who devotes all his free time to investigating these unsolved cases.

But for him, it is also the thread of the walks in the park that should now be explored.

"We were able to recover information showing that someone with the profile of Nordahl Lelandais with Malinois dogs was quite often in the park of the hospital in Bassens. This is a new lead that should be explored even if the investigators have not found any trace of a permanent presence of Lelandais in the establishment."

"We can very well believe that he came to the park as a free visitor and, in that case, it is normal that no official trace of his presence was found. It is perhaps necessary to see in detail whether, at the medical level, Lelandais was not hospitalised in Bassens itself but in a day hospital for example."

Once again, Bernard Valézy insists that there is no question of "targeting Nordahl Lelandais," only of verifying "factual information."

Many other details remain to be explored in the case of the disappearance of Lucie Roux according to the two men. The first of these is the telephone of the forty year old, which has never been examined. The roommates of the missing woman have not been questioned either.

Bernard Valézy also found the trace of two individuals who were not interviewed even though they were in the vicinity at the time of Lucie Roux's disappearance. "It seems that there was an individual who was hanging around the house where Lucie lived," Christian Saint-André explains, based on information collected by the ARPD association, "a homeless man who now lives in Bretagne." Another suspect profile: that of a "schizophrenic man, interned several times, nicknamed Jesus."

Finally, the room in the shared flat in which Lucie Roux lived has never been re-let since her disappearance. It is now empty "but it wouldn't take long to do some analysis to see if there are traces of blood or if there is a crime scene," the family's lawyer continues.

On the basis of all these findings, last Friday -three days before the opening of the trial of Nordahl Lelandais- Christian Saint-André requested the prosecutor of the Republic of Chambéry to reopen the case of the disappearance of Lucie Roux.

All are convinced that Lucie Roux had a bad encounter. For them, the thesis of suicide or accident do not hold because, during the last eight years, the body would eventually have been found. If no bones have been found so far, this is the proof to them that Lucie Roux's remains have been hidden and that her disappearance is the consequence of a criminal act.

Whom did the young woman meet? Nordahl Lelandais? Another individual?

Even if they have the impression that they are fighting in a vacuum, they hope, more than anything, to finally obtain an answer and that the file on the disappearance of Lucie Roux does not become a "cold case."

"If we give up, it's worse than anything else. If we stop looking, it's worse than anything else. We have to keep looking, it's unthinkable to stop," Olga Roux, Lucie's mother, told our colleagues on Envoyé Spécial on France 2 a few weeks ago.


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Justice. Affaire Maëlys : Nordahl Lelandais renvoyé aux assises pour meurtre

Maëlys case: Nordahl Lelandais to be tried for murder

Nordahl Lelandais will appear before the assize court of Isère for the murder of Maëlys De Araujo preceded by the kidnapping and sequestration of the child under 15 years of age.

The judges in charge of the Maëlys case ordered Tuesday the referral of Nordahl Lelandais, sentenced in May in Chambéry to twenty years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of Arthur Noyer, before the assises of Isere for the "murder" of the girl, according to our colleagues of the Dauphiné Libéré.

The magistrates followed the prosecutor's request and sent the former soldier to the court of assizes for "the crime of murder of Maëlys De Araujo, preceded by the kidnapping and sequestration of the child, under the age of 15 years," according to the deputy prosecutor Boris Duffau.

Nordahl Lelandais, the only defendant in the Maëlys case, has also been charged with "the offences of sexual assault on two of his cousins, both under the age of 15, and the possession and recording of child *advertiser censored* images."

The parties have ten days to appeal the committal order, which comes just under one month after the 30-year-old was convicted of the murder of Corporal Arthur Noyer.

Maëlys De Araujo, eight years old, disappeared in the night of 26 to 27 August 2017 during a wedding in the village hall of Pont-de-Beauvoisin, in Isère. Rapidly suspected, Nordahl Lelandais, a former military dog handler, confessed, six months after his indictment, to having killed "involuntarily" the little girl.


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At a first glance, I understood that the murder of Maëlys and the sexual assault on the young cousins and the possession and recording of child *advertiser censored* would all be tried at the same time. On closer reading, this does not appear to be the case.

Not sure what to think of this. IMHO motive in both the Maëlys case and the murder of Arthur Noyer would be easier to prove if the cases of the young cousins were joined. Time has been very much on the side of Nordahl Lelandais, when the remains of his victims were found, a lot of evidence had disappeared, specifically indications of a possible sexual crime.

When Nordahl Lelandais drove off with Maëlys in his car, he never intended to bring her back.
 
ZaZara said:
Could well be a Tuesday, but there is no Court date yet. Both parties can still appeal this decision.

Trial will probably in 2022.
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Do you think I should put this on this Tuesday, 6/8? I'll put a "Maybe" next to it! :)
 
Niner said:
Do you think I should put this on this Tuesday, 6/8? I'll put a "Maybe" next to it! :)
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No I don't think so. There is no court date yet for the trial that I can find. And what date is 6/8, August or June?
I cannot find the Maëlys trial on any list of the 'grand trials of 2021'.

Where did you see "Tuesday"?
 
ZaZara said:
No I don't think so. There is no court date yet for the trial that I can find. And what date is 6/8, August or June?
I cannot find the Maëlys trial on any list of the 'grand trials of 2021'.

Where did you see "Tuesday"?
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in the article you posted above...

Nordahl Lelandais will appear before the assize court of Isère for the murder of Maëlys De Araujo preceded by the kidnapping and sequestration of the child under 15 years of age.

The judges in charge of the Maëlys case ordered Tuesday the referral of Nordahl Lelandais, sentenced in May in Chambéry to twenty years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of Arthur Noyer, before the assises of Isere for the "murder" of the girl, according to our colleagues of the Dauphiné Libéré.

Oh shoot - keep forgetting this is a European case - the 6/8 should be June 8th - a Tuesday... :)

Not talking about the actual "trial" - I'm guessing he'll have a court date before than.
 
Niner said:
in the article you posted above...

Nordahl Lelandais will appear before the assize court of Isère for the murder of Maëlys De Araujo preceded by the kidnapping and sequestration of the child under 15 years of age.

The judges in charge of the Maëlys case ordered Tuesday the referral of Nordahl Lelandais, sentenced in May in Chambéry to twenty years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of Arthur Noyer, before the assises of Isere for the "murder" of the girl, according to our colleagues of the Dauphiné Libéré.

Oh shoot - keep forgetting this is a European case - the 6/8 should be June 8th - a Tuesday... :)

Not talking about the actual "trial" - I'm guessing he'll have a court date before than.
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Should be read as follows:

On Tuesday, the judges in charge of the Maëlys case ordered the referral of Nordahl Lelandais (...) before the assises of Isere for the "murder" of the girl.

Only the referral happened, this is a separate step in the French procedure, and both parties can appeal the decision within 10 days.

There is no court date yet, and it is expected that the trial will take place in 2022.
 
Ah! wrong translation then! :D Okay - I'll just leave it where I have it now. More in my updated files than June 2020 where I had him...

Thanks! :)
 
[VIDEO] Disparition de Lucas Tronche : des ossements et un sac similaire au sien découverts à Bagnols-sur-Cèze

On Thursday 24 June, the examining magistrate ordered a search of an area of the countryside. Bones were found in the area of Bagnols-sur-Ceze. The bones were found in the area of Bagnols-sur-Ceze, and a bag similar to that of the missing teenager was also found.

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This Thursday, bones were found in the countryside of Bagnols-sur-Ceze. The investigating judge had ordered a search earlier in the day. The trail of the Lucas Tronche case is re-launched by this discovery as confirmed by judicial sources.

This Thursday 24 June at the end of the afternoon, Eric Maurel, the prosecutor of the Republic of Nimes confirmed the discovery of bones in a wooded area difficult to access, located 1 km from the home of the young man, near the wine estate La Romance. The area is all the more steep as it was the specialised firefighters of the GRIMP (Groupement de recherche et d'intervention en milieu périlleux) who carried out the searches with police officers from the criminal brigade of the Montpellier territorial directorate of the judicial police.

The searches revealed "scraps of clothing and a bag similar to that of Lucas Tronche," according to the Nîmes public prosecutor. For the moment, the discovery of these bones re-launches the trail of the Lucas Tronche case but only DNA samples will be able to confirm with certainty the genetic profile of this teenager who disappeared on 18 March 2015.

This Thursday, the examining magistrate Déborah Cohen organised a thorough search in the region of Bagnols-sur-Cèze with the judicial police, the Grimp, who meticulously examined an area composed of rock faces.

The fire brigade only managed to search the area by positioning themselves with special equipment and at a height above the place where what appears to be human remains were found.


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RIP Lucas Tronche
 
Disparition de Lucas Tronche en 2015: des ossements et des débris de vêtements retrouvés

The area under investigation, located in the commune of Bagnols-sur-Cèze, consists of rock formations that could only be searched by firefighters specialised in mountain investigation, who were able to access them by abseiling. These bones were not visible from the top of the cliff (60 metres high), the area is totally inaccessible unless specific equipment is used. This is a place where Lucas Troncche used to come regularly with his father. The investigators are now looking for his mobile phone to analyse it.

On the spot, the firefighters found both clothes and a bag that matches Lucas Tronche's bag at the time. "The backpack that was discovered was damaged by the weather but it strongly resembles the one used by Lucas Tronche, as well as the clothes found," according to the prosecutor this Thursday to the press. "A number of plausible factors suggest that we may have found the trail of this unfortunate child".

However, the prosecutor stressed that "the presence of these items and these bones does not allow us to know how they got there, what the origin of these facts is: an accident? An accidental fall? Was it a suicide or an altercation and was the victim pushed?"


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Oh that's good to hear. Sounds like it might have been accidental fall - ?? Since he & his father used to go there. And nothing to do with Nordahl.

Thanks for those articles. I'll update my Nordahl list for Lucas.
 
Niner said:
Oh that's good to hear. Sounds like it might have been accidental fall - ?? Since he & his father used to go there. And nothing to do with Nordahl.

Thanks for those articles. I'll update my Nordahl list for Lucas.
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Nordahl Lelandais has already been excluded in the disappearance of Lucas.

Accident or suicide, I'm not sure. I hope they find his phone.
 
ZaZara said:
Nordahl Lelandais has already been excluded in the disappearance of Lucas.

Accident or suicide, I'm not sure. I hope they find his phone.
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You would think he carried his phone in the backpack they found. Maybe they just not telling us that....
 
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