• Nordahl Lelandais must be tried until May 12 before the Assizes of Savoy for the murder of Arthur Noyer, in April 2017.

  • This Monday, the psychologists and psychiatrists who examined the accused marched to the bar to deliver their conclusions to the court.

  • They describe an accused as vulnerable as he is dangerous.

At the Assize Court of Savoy,

What were the jurors able to retain after having listened, for eight hours, to the psychiatrists and psychologists who paraded to the bar? These experts, who examined during the investigation Nordahl Lelandais, delivered this Monday to the Assize Court of Savoy their conclusions in jargon that cares little about the uninitiated. In turn, they drew the portrait of a defendant obsessed with his image, as dangerous as he was fragile. So sensitive to separations that he has developed very strong bonds with his dogs. "It has always been a passion and not an emotional deficiency or whatever," said the one who is on trial for the murder of Arthur Noyer in April 2017. "Since I was little, animals have been something i like. "

Hélène Dubost met the former soldier three times between February and May 2018. This clinical psychologist remembers that he was “extremely distant and cold” and that he “did not express himself spontaneously”.

“Nordahl Lelandais is difficult to deliver,” she explains.

He hands out puzzle pieces, but not all of the pieces, and asks the other to put it back together.

After several weeks of denying his involvement, he finally admitted to her having accidentally killed the young 23-year-old corporal.

But he presented himself as the "victim" of Arthur Noyer who allegedly assaulted him.

She remembers, however, that he had released this disturbing sentence: "He defended himself well".

"If it opens, it risks collapsing"

Behind the will of the accused to want to "give a good image of him", she detects "a vulnerability, a fragility". He wants "to avoid psychic collapse at all costs", to "find himself facing a chasm, facing a void", underlines Hélène Dubost. Magali Ravit, she met Nordahl Lelandais on February 16, 2018, two days after the discovery of Maëlys' bones. The psychologist remembers that he was "devastated". That day, he showed himself "in that aspect of vulnerability that he is trying to fight". “We understand, when we see it like that, what a narcissistic collapse is, it is the abyssal abyss. "

François Danet makes the same observation.

The psychiatrist also notices that the accused makes "smooth remarks when one begins to enter into questions about the emotional life".

And for good reason.

"If it opens, it risks collapsing" and even committing suicide.

“If he closes, he can maintain a certain state of well-being.

Vulnerable therefore, but also very dangerous.

“Its dangerousness is not psychiatric;

it is criminological ”, specifies François Danet.

“But he says very little about his conscious and unconscious motives.

It is not known whether there are sexual or non-sexual motivations in him.

"

A "serious personality disorder"

"Its dangerousness is important", also assures the psychiatrist Patrick Blachere. He met Nordahl Lelandais twice: in January 2018 and in April 2018. “The real problem with Mr. Lelandais is that he always puts himself away from guilt and shame,” remarks l expert who describes an "intelligent man" suffering from a "severe personality disorder", "dominated by instability and impulsivity". “Psychiatry, is it a science? », Asks him, annoyed, the lawyer of the accused, Me Alain Jakubowicz. "I will not answer this question master", answers the psychiatrist, simply specifying that he is "first of all a doctor".

The Advocate General will deliver her indictment this Tuesday morning.

The pleadings of the civil party and the defense will follow.

The verdict is expected to be delivered on Wednesday.

Nordahl Lelandais faces 30 years in prison.

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