France - Maëlys De Araujo, 9, found deceased, Pont-de-Beauvoisin, 27 Aug 2017 #2

[ZaZara]

Affaire Arthur Noyer : le procès de Nordahl Lelandais devant les assises de la Savoie aura lieu en 2021


The defense of Nordahl Lelandais announced on Thursday that they will not appeal the indictment order of the investigating judges of Chambéry requesting the referral of the thirtysomething man to the Assize Court of Savoy for the murder of Arthur Noyer.

"Although we are disputing the homicidal intent," Alain Jakubowicz, lawyer for Nordahl Lelandais, said in a statement that this decision was taken "so as not to delay the trial date."

"The debate on the legal classification will take place before the court of assises," the lawyer of the 37-year-old defendant added.

The young soldier's family wanted Nordahl Lelandais to be tried for "assassination", which introduces premeditation. But they could not appeal against this decision, only the defendant's defence can do so.

As a result, the trial will indeed take place in 2021, according to the same sources. A more precise date is not known for the moment.


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[ZaZara]

Nordahl Lelandais sera jugé en mai 2021 pour le meurtre du caporal Noyer

The trial of Nordahl Lelandais for the murder of the young soldier Arthur Noyer will take place from May 3 to May 12, 2021 before the court of assizes of Savoy, according to the public prosecutor's office on Wednesday. Four years after the disappearance of the 23-year-old corporal, a member of the 13th Battalion of the Alpine Hunters, the 37-year-old former dog handler will have to explain himself before three professional magistrates and six jurors randomly drawn from the electoral lists.

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[Niner]

@ZaZara - just wondering if there were any updates on Maelys' case?

TIA! Hope you are staying Healthy & safe distancing! All is well here.

 

[ZaZara]

@ZaZara - just wondering if there were any updates on Maelys' case?

TIA! Hope you are staying Healthy & safe distancing! All is well here.

I found a dog in my bed, this has no relevance the case at hand.
No updates on NL but my bed could do with some fresh linen.

 

[ZaZara]

Affaire Estelle Mouzin: Monique Olivier affirme que Michel Fourniret a séquestré et tué la fillette

Monique Olivier, the former wife of Michel Fourniret, was interrogated all week by the investigating judge in charge of the investigation into the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin in January 2003.

According to the testimony of Monique Olivier, Michel Fourniret left their home in Sainte-Custine in Belgium the morning of Estelle Mouzin's disappearance. After abducting her when the girl was leaving school, the killer took her to his sister's house in Ville-sur-Lumes, in the Ardennes, where he raped and strangled her. Monique Olivier is still to be heard this Friday afternoon.

Last November, Monique Olivier had already refuted Michel Fourniret's alibi for the day of the abduction. She had told the magistrate that she was the author of a phone call made from the couple's Belgian home on the evening of Estelle Mouzin's disappearance, a phone call that had until then served as Michel Fourniret's alibi. In March, the killer had finally admitted to the facts.


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Nordahl Lelandais has already been excluded in the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, he was in French Guyana at the time.

Let's hope this case continues to move forward and that Estelle is finally found.

 

[ZaZara]

Affaire Lelandais: "Comment un tel monstre peut exister sur cette planète", s'exclame la mère de la petite Maëlys

Three years ago, Maëlys De Araujo, a carefree dark-haired young girl of 8 years old in a white dress, disappeared during a wedding party in Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère). On her Facebook page, the girl's mother addresses her in a poignant message.

"It's been 3 years that your absence is unbearable my little baby chick, it's a never-ending suffering that will last all my life. A mother should never have to live the loss of her child: why you? How can such a monster exist on this planet? Unanswered questions that hurt so much," Jennifer De Araujo writes.

My life has been shattered, our family is shattered, the emptiness you leave in us is immense, indefinable. My ray of sunshine that illuminated my life. I will always miss you Maëlys, I look at all those stars in the sky, I know that you are watching over us (...) I remain strong for you Maëlys and for justice to do its work and let this soulless monster rot and suffer in his prison for life. My mother's heart will always bleed. I miss your laughter, your voice, your humor (...) I loved you, I love you and I will love you with all my heart Maëlys, you will always be my darling baby chick."

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=368804630778007

 

[ZaZara]

Faits divers. Affaire Maëlys : Nordahl Lelandais échappe à une mise en examen pour viol

Maëlys case: Nordahl Lelandais escapes indictment for rape

Nordahl Lelandais, 37 years old, remains under investigation for the murder of little Maëlys, killed at the end of August 2017 at the end of a wedding party at Pont-de-Beauvoisin in Isère.

Nordahl Lelandais was placed Tuesday evening under the status of assisted witness by the investigating judges, following his hearing at the courthouse in Grenoble in the investigation into the possible rape of Maëlys De Araujo. He thus escaped indictment in this part of the case, although the public prosecutor's office wanted him to be indicted.

The status of assisted witness is legally placed between that of a witness and that of an accused.

It means that there are clues that could lead to the belief that he is guilty. However, this is a weaker presumption than in the case of an indictment, for which there must be "serious or corroborating evidence" that could make the defendant's guilt likely, the code of criminal procedure states.

Nordahl Lelandais, aged 37, remains under investigation for the murder of little Maëlys, killed at the end of August 2017 at the end of a wedding feast at Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère), but the public prosecutor's office has not succeeded in getting his wish to send him back to the Isère assize court for rape.

A former cell neighbour, who had claimed that Nordahl Lelandais had confided to him that he had voluntarily killed and raped the girl, was present at the hearing.

The former dog handler was also charged with sexual assault on three little cousins.

He will also face trial in April 2017 for the murder of Corporal Arthur Noyer, who was 23 years old at the time. The trial is scheduled from 3 to 12 May 2021 before the assize court of Savoie.

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Found another description of 'assisted witness':

The term "assisted witness," which can precede a formal indictment, may be applied to any person accused by a witness, or who evidence indicates may have been complicit, acted as perpetrator or as an accomplice in the crimes being examined by the investigative judge

Designation of Qosmos as

 

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[ZaZara]

https://lessor.org/societe/les-cold-case-ont-enfin-leur-service-dedie-au-sein-de-la-gendarmerie/

Finally, the "cold cases" have their own designated division within the Gendarmerie.

This unit was long overdue. The Judicial Unit of the National Gendarmerie (PJGN) presented on Friday 9 October its new cold case division, created at the beginning of the year. Its investigators will delve back into unsolved or highly complex cases.

Disappearances, crimes... investigations by gendarmes and police officers can sometimes last several decades. While many of these investigations eventually lead to successful leads and clues, others fail to make headway. However, victims and their families remain in a state of incomprehension and sometimes hoping for a solution. Some investigators themselves continue to be haunted by investigations that they are unable to resolve. Even decades later. Several victims' associations, such as Assistance et recherche de personnes disparues (ARPD), called for the creation of a unit dedicated to unsolved cases. They seem to have been heard, since the Gendarmerie has just made official the creation of a "cold case division" (DCC) within its judicial centre in Cergy-Pontoise.

In reality, the interest of the Gendarmerie in these cold cases is nothing new. This new division is in fact an initiative of several entities, including the PIANR (plateau d'investigation des affaires non résolves (PIANR), created in 2016, also known since then as the PICC (plateau d'investigation cold case). But also the Ariane cell, set up specifically in 2017, following the disappearance of the little Maëlys in Isère. At the time, the investigators were exploring a hundred or so files in an attempt to find links with the Nordahl Lelandais trail.

Until then, however, it had been a circumstantial entity. The new cold case division became a unit in its own right, placed under the command of Colonel Fabrice Bouillet, head of the Gendarmerie's central intelligence service (SCRG). It brings together experts in the various specialities of the PJGN. Notably from the behavioural sciences and criminal analysis departments.


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At last!

 

[Ozoner]

France needs to bring back the guillotine for scum like Lelandais.

 

[ZaZara]

Nordahl Lelandais will definitively not be prosecuted for rape of little Maëlys, re the verdict of the Higher Court.

Sven Lelandais had to appear before another court for hitting his mother.
During the session Sven was very sorry that he had hit his mother, and his mother was sorry she had called the police, because her son has enough problems as it is.
Normally speaking, a case like this would not even make the papers. But Sven and his mother are family of Nordahl Lelandais, so it does.

Sven Lelandais, the elder brother of Nordahl Lelandais indicted for the murders of little Maëlys and Corporal Arthur Noyer and for sexual assault on two little cousins, was convicted by the criminal court of Chambéry (Savoy) Thursday for violence committed against his mother, according to Le Dauphiné Libéré.

He was tried in an instant trial. He was sentenced to 50 days-fines of 10 euros.

The events took place at the Lelandais' family home on October 31 in Domessin, in Savoie. Sven Lelandais, aged 39, under the influence of alcohol, pushed and hit his mother, prompting her to call the gendarmes.

He had been living with his parents for a few months, but the living together was going badly, the mother said during the hearing.

The mother, who had filed a civil claim, confessed that she regretted having filed a complaint against her son.

"When he hasn't been drinking, he's a very nice boy. He used to hide behind alcohol to forget all the misadventures we have suffered. He has no friends, he doesn't go out and he can't find work anymore. I was angry that day," the mother told the court.

Justice. Sven Lelandais, frère de Nordahl Lelandais, condamné pour avoir frappé sa mère

Sad. They are the forgotten victims of Nordahl Lelandais.

 

[Niner]

So - @ZaZara - probably nothing on Nordahl on Maelys' case? I have 5/3/21 as trial starting on Noyer murder.

TIA!

 

[ZaZara]

So - @ZaZara - probably nothing on Nordahl on Maelys' case? I have 5/3/21 as trial starting on Noyer murder.

TIA!

Is that the American notation?

Trial date for the murder of Arthur Noyer is 3 to 14 May 2021.

NL is still under investigation for the murder of Maëlys, AFAK there is no trial date yet.

 

[Ozoner]

Is that the American notation?

Trial date for the murder of Arthur Noyer is 3 to 14 May 2021.

NL is still under investigation for the murder of Maëlys, AFAK there is no trial date yet.

In America the month is always listed first. 5/3/21 would be May 3rd, 2021.

 

[Niner]

Is that the American notation?

Trial date for the murder of Arthur Noyer is 3 to 14 May 2021.

NL is still under investigation for the murder of Maëlys, AFAK there is no trial date yet.

Oh shoot.... yes - an American notation... only have lived here 4 years & still can't get used to using the DATE first, then the month.... I have that same problem on a UK case....

 

[ZaZara]

Savoie : des ossements humains retrouvés près du fort de Tamié

Savoie: human bones found near the fort of Tamié

The families of the "missing men from Fort de Tamié " are eagerly awaiting the results of the analyses carried out on these bones.

In mid-October 2020, human bones were found by a walker near Fort de Tamié, located in the village of Mercury in Savoie, according to information from the newspaper La Savoie and confirmed by Le Figaro. A macabre discovery, but unfortunately not unusual in the mountains, according to the Albertville public prosecutor Anne Gaches.

However, this discovery is attracting particular attention. Impossible not to think of the "missing men from the fort of Tamié", Jean-Christophe Morin and Ahmed Hamadou. The first disappeared in September 2011 at the age of 22, at the end of the electronic music festival held at the fort at the time; the second, aged 45, vanished a year later at the same place.

The Albertville public prosecutor's office cautions, however, that there is currently no proven link between the bones and the two men. "We must be careful on behalf of the families," Anne Gaches told Le Figaro. Analyses are underway at the National Gendarmerie Criminal Research Institute (IRCGN). "We do this systematically when human bones are discovered," the prosecutor said.

The results of these analyses will not be known for several months. "We still need to be patient," Adeline Morin, Jean-Christophe's sister, writes on Facebook. "It allows us to put pressure on the justice system, and to repeat that we will never forget them, and that we want to know," continues Adeline Morin, who has been fighting for almost ten years to get answers, with the help of Corinne Herrmann and Didier Seban, lawyers specialising in "cold cases".

After several years without notable news, the cases of Jean-Christophe Morin and Ahmed Hamadou resurfaced in 2018 within the framework of the Ariane cell, set up by the gendarmerie to carry out checks between unresolved disappearances, particularly in eastern France, and the trail of Nordahl Lelandais.

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[ZaZara]

Isère. Affaire Maëlys : la justice prévoit un budget de 194 000 euros pour le procès

Maëlys case: the justice system has budgeted 194,000 euros for the trial

This Monday morning, during a press conference organised by the Grenoble Court of Appeal prior to its traditional formal session at the beginning of the new year, the organisation of the Maëlys trial was mentioned.

The Grenoble Court of Appeal estimates the budget for this trial at 194,000 euros. This sum includes, among other things, the technical arrangements to be made to enable the public and journalists to attend the proceedings.

The trial is expected to start in autumn 2021. But the judicial investigation is still underway and a second psychiatric report on Nordahl Lelandais, requested by his lawyer, is due by the end of January. Making this provisional programme very hypothetical.

Nordahl Lelandais is also due to appear from 3 to 12 May 2021, before the Savoie assize court, for the murder of Arthur Noyer in April 2017.

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[Ozoner]

Isère. Affaire Maëlys : la justice prévoit un budget de 194 000 euros pour le procès

Maëlys case: the justice system has budgeted 194,000 euros for the trial

This Monday morning, during a press conference organised by the Grenoble Court of Appeal prior to its traditional formal session at the beginning of the new year, the organisation of the Maëlys trial was mentioned.

The Grenoble Court of Appeal estimates the budget for this trial at 194,000 euros. This sum includes, among other things, the technical arrangements to be made to enable the public and journalists to attend the proceedings.

The trial is expected to start in autumn 2021. But the judicial investigation is still underway and a second psychiatric report on Nordahl Lelandais, requested by his lawyer, is due by the end of January. Making this provisional programme very hypothetical.

Nordahl Lelandais is also due to appear from 3 to 12 May 2021, before the Savoie assize court, for the murder of Arthur Noyer in April 2017.

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This case SO makes me with that French still had the guillotine. If anyone ever deserved to have his head chopped off, it's Nordahl Lelandais. Maybe the local citizenry will drag him out of the jail and take him apart with hatchets and bill hooks. (I can dream, can't I?)

 

[ZaZara]

Mystère des disparus du Fort de Tamié : un crâne humain retrouvé, la piste de Nordahl Lelandais ravivée ?

Jean-Christophe Morin and Ahmed Hamadou disappeared in 2011 and 2012 respectively during an electro festival near Albertville in Savoie, the region where Nordahl Lelandais was also living. Human bones were discovered there recently.

At the time, the theory was that of an accident, one after the other, one year apart.

Jean-Christophe Morin, aged 22 and living in a van, has not been seen since September 2011 after he went to the electro festival "Elements" at the Fort de Tamié near Albertville in Savoie.

His backpack was found a few days later but he has completely disappeared.

One year later, in September 2012, Ahmed Hamadou, aged 45, disappeared after a cash withdrawal of 300 euros.

The investigations were quickly abandoned and the files were closed.

When Nordahl Lelandais appeared on the radar of the authorities, the Ariane cell of the gendarmerie was created. The Ariane cell has studied more than 900 unsolved cases and reduced the list in 2019 to 40, including 13 priority cases, in which Nordahl Lelandais could be a suspect. NL has been indicted for the murder of little Maëlys and Corporal Noyer, but also in three cases of sexual assaults on minors.

Investigators will therefore focus on 35 cases of disappearances and five suspicious deaths in six departments: Savoie, Isère, Drôme, Rhône, Loire and Ain. Among the victims, there are 27 men, 12 women and one girl.

On this short list of 13 people, the names of Jean-Christophe Morin and Ahmed Hamadou appear.

And for good reason, the presence of Nordahl Lelandais in the surroundings of this festival of Savoy at that time is an important lead. All the more so as, like Corporal Arthur Noyer, the two missing men used to hitch-hike.

Would they have crossed the road of the murderer of little Maëlys and Corporal Noyer on the evening of their respective disappearances? The investigators do not rule it out.

In October 2020, human bones were discovered by hunters near Tamié Fort. This information was only published last January by L'Essor savoyard.

These bones were sent to the National Gendarmerie's Criminal Research Institute. The Albertville public prosecutor's office has not made any link between these bones and the two missing persons, as reported by SudOuest.

According to our colleagues of Marianne, a human skull was found.

The lawyers for the families, Me Didier Seban and Me Corinne Hermann became aware of this discovery a few weeks ago without any link being made with the two missing persons.

Me Didier Seban explained to France 3: "We have heard that an autopsy is being carried out. It is very important to know if these could be the remains of one of the two men who disappeared at Fort Tamié. We were told that these bones had nothing to do with this case but without explaining us more. So we have hopes that this autopsy will give the families an unequivocal answer."


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[Niner]

So the human skull was found in Oct. 2020 - and they have not identified it yet? I'm watching "Bones" and they get an artist to do a sketch of the victim. Don't they have any forensic artists in France??!!

Thanks for that info @ZaZara - probably no "new" news on Maëlys' case? His last hearing was 6/17/20 on her case. Have Noyer's trial starting 5/3 to 5/12.