Nordahl Lelandais implicated in an anonymous letter, an open investigation

Europe 1 with AFP 6:19 p.m., May 5, 2022, modified at 6:20 p.m., May 5, 2022

An investigation was opened following the questioning of Nordahl Lelandais in an anonymous letter accusing the former soldier of being linked to the death of a man near Grenoble in 2012, AFP learned on Thursday from concordant sources.

"The Grenoble public prosecutor's office has entrusted an investigation to the research section of the Grenoble gendarmerie following an anonymous letter implicating N. Lelandais", indicated in a press release the public prosecutor of Grenoble, Éric Vaillant, confirming information from Marianne and BFMTV.

The letter in question was sent in February 2022 to the association Assistance and Search for Disappeared Persons (ARPD), its president Pascale Bathany told AFP.

She arrived while Nordahl Lelandais was in the middle of a trial before the Assize Court of Isère for the murder of little Maëlys De Araujo, a highly publicized hearing.

A "problem" during a walk between the author and Lelandais

The letter, typed and dated February 9, 2022, recounts how the anonymous author and Lelandais, who at the time were friends and walked their dogs together in the area, "had a problem" with a man they met on the way while hey were going to Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet in the Chartreuse massif.

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"A weird guy was in the middle of the road on a bend towards a home for the disabled and Nono (nickname of Nordahl lelandais, editor's note) stopped and got out of the car insulting him and the guy ran away in the forest and Nono released the three dogs who left after the guy. They came back a good while later and we did not see the guy again", according to the text of the letter read to AFP by Pascale Bathany.

“The facts were told very clearly”

The man in question could be a 43-year-old autistic who was then living in a nearby disabled people's home and whose body had been found at the foot of a rocky outcrop, she believes, indicating that she had carried out searches. following receipt of the letter.

“While looking, I came across this disappearance, this death, this person who had been found at the bottom of the cliff and it corresponded to the exact place mentioned in the letter”, underlines Pascale Bathany.

"The facts were told very clearly."

The association then quickly notified the police, she said, saying she did not know why the author of the letter at the time addressed the association rather than the police.

"Maybe the person was not well and they had to say it," she says.

Nordahl Lelandais was sentenced on February 18 to life imprisonment for the murder of little Maëlys De Araujo in August 2017 when he was already serving a 20-year prison sentence for the murder of a young soldier a few months later. early.