Jean-Luc Boujon (on site), edited by Gauthier Delomez 09:38, February 10, 2022

The eighth day of the trial of Nordahl Lelandais was devoted to the mobile phone that the main defendant in the murder of little Maëlys threw into a lake, a few hours after his first police custody.

The lawyer for part of the family wonders about Europe 1 about the content of the smartphone, a key element of the case.

A mobile phone in the center of attention for the eighth day of the trial of Nordahl Lelandais.

At the end of the day on Wednesday, the Assize Court of Grenoble in Isère looked into the smartphone that the alleged murderer of little Maëlys shattered, just after her first police custody.

Europe 1 follows this trial, and it is a close friend of the accused who recounts the scene.

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"The cops must not find it (the telephone)!"

Coming out of his first police custody, a few days after the murder of Maelys, Nordahl Lelandais arranges to meet his friend near Lake Bourget.

There, the former dog handler shows him a phone and says to him: "The cops must not find him!".

Then he suddenly starts breaking it, smashing it even with a stone, before telling his friend to throw it in the lake.

At that time, Lelandais is in rage, says this friend.

“Why did you destroy this phone?” asks a lawyer.

"It was a phone that (no longer) worked. I stole it at a party. I threw it away, that's all!", Nordahl Lelandais replies negligently.

"But what urgency was there to destroy it?" continues the lawyer.

"I told you, I stole it. I didn't want the gendarmes to find a stolen phone at my house," defends the ex-soldier.

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Were there "other videos involving children"?

The lawyer for part of the family, Me Caroline Rémond, continues the conversation: "It's strange all the same, you have just killed Maëlys, and you are afraid of being caught for a phone theft?"

She then makes a completely different hypothesis at the microphone of Europe 1, assuming "that there was extremely compromising evidence of the last hours experienced by Maëlys. I suppose that there were also other videos concerning children".

Caroline Rémond adds that she asked Nordahl Lelandais why he had not filmed his crime, "because once again, this telephone was not simply thrown away, it was really broken so that we could not find any more evidence."

A hypothesis completely denied by the former dog handler, but who, for the first time, got angry and lost control of his nerves.

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Thursday, for the ninth day of the trial, several experts, in particular in toxicology and genetics who worked on the case, will speak before the Assize Court.