Fitted white polo shirt, impeccable haircut and beard, thinned, concentrated on the file placed in front of him, the man who appears on the screen ensuring the videoconference listens attentively to the procedure described by the president of the criminal court.
"Very well Madam Chair ... Thank you".
It is difficult to recognize behind this civilized character, Nordahl Lelandais, the dog handler indicted twice, for the murders of Corporal Arthur Noyer and little Maëlys de Araujo, so much his image differs radically from the photographers invariably published for three years.
If Nordhal Lelandais, still imprisoned in solitary confinement at the detention center of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Isère) appeared on Tuesday in this videoconference, it is not as a defendant, nor as an accused, but as a victim .
His lawyer, master Alain Jakubowicz, is indeed suing for "defamation" Pascal Neveu, a regular guest on television sets as "psychiatric expert", to comment on the ongoing legal cases.
"A sexual predator, something animal ..."
On February 14, 2019, on NRJ12, Pascal Neveu intervenes once again in the program “Crimes et Faits divers” by Jean-Marc Morandini to analyze the profile of Nordahl Lelandais.
Two days earlier, the Express published the psychiatric reports of the most famous detainee in France.
Enough to feed the business again.
Pascal Neveu is invited to comment.
He gets carried away.
"He is a sexual predator, an instinctive, there is something animal about him, he maintains a master-slave relationship […] We can assume that there will be other victims," he concludes.
The blood of Alain Jakubowicz, does not make one turn, already heated by the multiple elements of the instructions which leak in the press.
This time, in the name of the presumption of innocence, he takes legal action.
But what sort of “shrink” is Pascal Neveu, who runs in Paris from one TV set to another, passing through the radio stations?
A psy "impostor" according to Me Jakubowicz
“I have been a psychoanalyst for 20 years,” the 40-year-old presents himself, “a teacher at the military school and I have been involved in the media for 20 years on cases of criminology.
I'm trying to shed some light, an explanation ”.
For Alain Jakubowicz, Pascal Neveu is simply an “impostor”.
"This gentleman spreads all year round on a field that he does not know, he is an amateur expert, without a diploma, I consider him a hoax" he asserts, "and he has never met Nordahl Lelandais ”.
He denounces the fate reserved for his client by the TV channels "who have made a marketing product to sell advertising" and asks for a financial conviction as well as a judicial publication at the beginning of the program "Crimes et Faits Divers" in order to recall the presumption of innocence of his client.
Decision on October 20
The shrink admits at the bar of the court to have gone a little far this February 14 on the set of Jean-Marc Morandini: “That day, I said it while leaving the emission, one should not have gone. until then, we were encouraged by the host, we may have talked too much, we let go ”.
For his defense, Maître Frédéric Divez, noted that "this extraordinary affair was fueled from all sides by a violation of the secrecy of the investigation".
The prosecution, for his part, did not appreciate seeing Nordhal Lelandais appear as a victim in court, pointing to "the request of the civil party as indecent".
The decision will be released on October 20.
