Nordahl Lelandais was extracted from his cell in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Isère) Wednesday February 26, must sleep in a secret place and presented Thursday to an examining magistrate of Charleville-Mézières for his examination for sexual assault on a little cousin, according to concordant sources.
At the beginning of February, the gendarmes of the research section of Reims had heard him in police custody as part of a judicial investigation opened after the complaint of a little cousin, who accused Mr. Lelandais of sexual assault.
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The facts denounced by the teenager date back to March 2017 - she was 14 years old - that is to say a month before the assassination of Corporal Arthur Noyer (in April 2017 in Savoy) for which Nordahl Lelandais is indicted .
In a video broadcast in the summer of 2019 by BFMTV (where she appears in the shadows without anyone being able to recognize her, her voice having been modified), she relates that she was touched on the day of her father's burial. from his " big cousin ".
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The respondent then allegedly threatened to kill her if she said anything. Two years later, the girl complained after confiding in her mother.
The former dog handler, aged 37, is indicted for the murder of little Maëlys (end of August 2017 in Isère) and the sexual assaults committed on two little cousins a few weeks earlier, aged four and six at the time of the facts.
