On the second day of his trial for the murder of Corporal Arthur Noyer, Tuesday in Chambéry, Nordahl Lelandais gave the story of a fight that would have gone wrong, while his ex-girlfriends recounted sometimes violent scenes lived at his side .

They describe a man who could be impulsive.

At the helm of his trial for the murder of Corporal Arthur Noyer, Nordahl Lelandais continued to present himself as an ordinary man, despite his instability and depression, on Tuesday, while former companions portrayed a jealous and impulsive character.

The accused then gave his account of the events that occurred in 2017, without convincing the civil parties. 

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"We fought and he fell backwards"

Trying to appear genuinely upset, sparing silences and hesitation - sometimes in a somewhat awkward way - Nordahl Lelandais continues to hammer him: he had no intention of killing the soldier. He says that after hitchhiking Arthur Noyer, he, very tipsy, suddenly panicked when he discovered that he had lost his phone. 

Lelandais says he eventually found it and handed it to him. But there, Arthur Noyer would have said to him: "It is you who stole it!". The accused then allegedly punched him, then two. "I replied," he explains. "We fought and at one point he fell backwards, KO. There, I felt that there was no more movement on his part. I didn't know what to do." Silence in the courtroom.

Then, suddenly, Lelandais addresses in a tearful way the portrait of his victim, placed just in front of him by the parents of Noyer.

"Sorry Arthur, I know you are in front of me. Sorry for your family, I know they are very sorry today, but I am telling you the truth!"

Words that do not reach the civil parties, according to their lawyer, Me Bernard Boulloud.

"It's cinema for us", he comments at the microphone of Europe 1. "His version, he prepared it so well for four years, he was so convinced, that he did not It will never come out. Unfortunately, it will make the family suffer to the end. "

"He could become terrible," says an ex-girlfriend

Earlier today, the testimony of the defendant's ex-girlfriends had already tarnished his image, several of them describing a man who could be violent and impulsive at times.

Vanessa recounts how, after an argument, he picked her up, threw her on the bed, then pretended to head butt her.

"Like that, in two seconds, he transformed," she explains. 

Another, Céline, tells the story of the moral harassment that Nordahl Lelandais subjected her to just after their break-up, according to her: "He followed me, he prowled near my house, or rushed over me in the car. And concludes:" He could get terrible when you didn't do what you wanted. "