• The third day of the trial of Nordahl Lelandais, tried for the murder of the young corporal Arthur Noyer, allowed us to hear many testimonies, including that of Véronique.

  • The waitress was one of the last people to see the young man hours before his death in April 2017.

  • Véronique was marked by the hand kiss that the corporal gave her when saying goodbye to her and thanking her for her support, a little earlier in the evening.

At the Assize Court of Savoy

In the courtroom of the Assize Court of Savoy, his sweet smile is present every day. Displayed on a huge photo facing Nordahl Lelandais. Corporal Arthur Noyer was killed four years ago, on April 12, 2017, while leaving a nightclub in Chambéry. What happened on the night of the drama, no one knows for sure. Except Nordahl Lelandais.

Shaken by the testimony of his friends, the accused, on the third day of his trial, faltered without flinching.

The former dog handler stuck to his version of the facts: the young corporal's death was accidental, after a fight against a background of drunkenness and a stolen cell phone.

The witnesses who took the stand on Wednesday, however, came to undermine this scenario.

Starting with Arthur's battalion comrades who never ceased to evoke the memory of a "jovial", "courteous", "well-behaved" man.

A young man gallant with women.

“He was sensitive.

This is not someone who was looking for sex at all costs.

He preferred to bond emotionally before starting a relationship, ”reveals one of them.

"Arthur gave the smile when waking up"

“I have never seen him get angry and take the lead with a guy, says Alexis, 25 years old. He was unifying. The first classes liked to talk to him. There was no schedule to go see him ”. "He would smile when he woke up ... And we kept him all day," Theo abounds, just as dithyrambic. The two men shared the same room at "13" for three years. “Arthur was always in the humor. We spent a lot of time laughing, ”Theo still remembers, with emotion.

Was the corporal the first to strike, as Nordahl Lelandais claims? Was he so angry that night after his phone was stolen? The police officer, called at 2:30 am to take Arthur Noyer's disposal, formally testifies to the contrary before the jurors: “He had been drinking because he smelled of alcohol but there was no disturbance of public order. . He was very calm. He did not even want to file a complaint because he was not injured and was finally able to recover his cell phone. "

Véronique, a waitress in a nearby bar, was present at this time.

She was the one who intervened when the soldier was assaulted and then robbed.

She also called the police.

The young woman stayed with him until the officers arrived and even after.

“We continued to discuss,” she explains.

Arthur told me he wanted to walk back to the battalion and I told him that he was not ready ”.

The young woman would almost blame herself today.

“I didn't have a car, I couldn't bring it back,” she apologizes.

An "adorable" hand kiss

Arthur marked it.

“He was outgoing, not at all aggressive.

Yet he had been drinking a lot.

I think if I had pushed him, he would have fallen, ”she says lightly.

When letting him come in, Véronique implores the corporal to "be careful".

“He told me to be careful as well.

Then… He gave me a hand kiss.

It was adorable.

"

Sitting in the front row, Arthur's relatives smile, gaze at the ceiling before their eyes are clouded.

In the room, everyone imagines the corporal bowing over the hand of the waitress.

One last gesture of a gentleman.

A last delicate greeting before he crosses the road of Nordahl Lelandais.

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