Nordahl Lelandais was placed in police custody this Friday morning as part of an investigation opened after the complaint of sexual assault of a grand-cousin, we learned from concordant sources, confirming an information of BFMTV.
Nordahl Lelandais was removed from his cell in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier this Friday morning and placed in police custody in Isère, according to a source close to the investigation. It is the gendarmes of the research section (SR) of Reims who hear it.
In July 2019, the Charleville-Mézières public prosecutor's office had affirmed that "a young woman filed a complaint several months ago in the Ardennes" and that she attributed "to Mr. Lelandais a number of things, which we can summarize under the words sexual assault and threat. "
Death threats
The facts denounced by the teenager date back to March 2017, that is to say a month before the assassination of Corporal Arthur Noyer (in April 2017 in Savoie) for which Nordahl Lelandais is under investigation.
The 36-year-old former dog handler 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.
The new alleged victim of Lelandais was 14 years old in 2017. In a video broadcast in the summer of 2019 by BFMTV - where she appears in the shadows without being recognized, her voice having been changed - she tells of having suffered, the day of his father's funeral, touching on the part of 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.