Nordahl Lelandais, suspected of the murder of Maëlys in 2017 in Isère, was indicted on Thursday for sexual assault on a little cousin, a source familiar with the matter told AFP. Extracted Wednesday from his cell in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Isère), Nordahl Lelandais was presented this Thursday to an examining magistrate of Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes), who informed him of his indictment, we have precise.
At the beginning of February, the gendarmes of the Reims research section had heard him in police custody as part of a judicial investigation opened after the complaint of a little cousin, who accused Nordahl Lelandais of sexual assault. The facts denounced by the teenager date back to March 2017 - she was 14 years old - that is to say a month before the assassination of Corporal Arthur Noyer (in April 2017 in Savoy) for which Nordahl Lelandais is indicted .
A complaint filed two years after the fact
In a video broadcast in the summer of 2019 by BFMTV - where she appears in the shadows without being able to recognize her, her voice having been modified - she recounts that she was touched on the day of her father's burial from his "big cousin". The respondent then allegedly threatened to kill her if she said anything. Two years later, the girl complained after confiding in her mother.
The former dog handler, aged 37, is indicted for the murder of Maëlys (end of August 2017 in Isère) and the sexual assaults committed on two little cousins a few weeks earlier, aged four and six at the time alleged facts.
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