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Nordahl Lelandais: revelations about the 40 cases targeted by investigators
Gendarmes and police officers are investigating 40 unsolved cases based on the path of the alleged killer of Maëlys and Corporal Noyer. Le Parisien reveals the background of this confidential list, drawn up by the Ariane cell of the gendarmerie.
Their names are Stéphane, Adrien, Nelly, Malik, Jean-Christophe, Ahmed or Thomas. So many people mysteriously evaporated or found dead in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region in recent years. These are all investigations on which the justice system has broken its teeth, due to the lack of bodies or evidence leading to a suspect. Unless new investigations are carried out, the tiniest lead is still missing....
After a year of analysis and cross-checking, the Ariane cell of the National Gendarmerie Directorate General, created in January 2018 to identify other crimes potentially attributable to Nordahl Lelandais and based in Pontoise (Val-d'Oise), selected these 40 unsolved cases out of the 900 cases that were initially studied.
Le Parisien - Today in France was able to reconstruct this confidential list, by querying multiple sources. These are 35 cases of disturbing disappearances and 5 of suspicious deaths. These tragedies occurred in six departments of the region of the alleged killer of little Maëlys and Corporal Arthur Noyer: Savoie, Isère, Drôme, Rhône, Loire and Ain. The victims are men (27) or women (12), often under the age of 40, with the exception of a missing girl near Lyon.
These investigations - 25 of which were entrusted to the judicial police and 15 to the gendarmerie's investigation sections - are the subject of intense investigations that cross-referenced Lelandais' career. "Nothing says he was there, but nothing says he wasn't," says a senior official cautiously. Another summarizes: "There are questions, sometimes big ones, on some issues. But to date, there is no evidence to implicate him and it is possible that no evidence will be found. Be careful not to create false hopes for families. »
Could the 36-year-old former dog-handler, who admitted to two murders, have made other victims? The investigators, who have studied his closed and indecipherable personality, are not of the same opinion. Some note that his actions, such as turning off his phone, are those of an experienced criminal. Others that he sometimes seemed to improvise, notably by doing traceable research on the decomposition of bodies.
To select these 40 cases, the eight gendarmes in the cell used geographical, temporal and victim profile criteria. They also studied Nordahl Lelandais' situation until the early 2000s, looking at his telephone lines, bank statements, trips, employment contracts, etc.
The gendarmes have already put nine investigations on top of the pile. F
irst of all, there are those of Fort Tamié: two Savoyards aged 22 and 45, who disappeared a year apart at the end of the same electronic festival. Investigations reveal that Lelandais, a resident of Domessin, was in Savoy at the time: he was returning from a summer holiday. But his presence at festivals is not confirmed, although he is a rave fan. He also knew Ahmed Hamadou, one of the missing.
Also on the list is Éric Foray, who evaporated while shopping in a village in the Drôme in 2016. And Nelly Balmain, a 29-year-old woman who has been missing since she left her home in Saint-Jean-en-Royans by scooter in 2011. More fragile profiles were also selected, such as Stéphane Chemin, an Isérois suffering from schizophrenia, or Lucie Roux, disappeared from a psychiatric hospital, frequented the same year by Lelandais.
For their part, police officers are examining six files as a priority.
With particular attention to the one of Adrien Fiorello, who disappeared in Saint-Étienne (Loire) in 2010. This 22-year-old man is said to have frequented popular establishments in the homosexual community, which is of interest to the investigators since Lelandais had relationships with men. Adrien's telephone was also located in Chambéry, the city where the suspect resided that year.
Police also focus on cases of disappearances that receive little or no media coverage. There is
Hugo Raffi, 18 years old, who left home in flip-flops, without a mobile phone and without papers in Albertville (Savoie) in 2012.
Adlène Kifani - one of the oldest cases - who no longer gave any sign of life after making a brief call to 17 [ police help!] number on the way to a bar in Portes-lès-Valence (Drôme) in 2009...
Among the cases of murder or suspicious deaths, the most emblematic is that of
Thomas Rauschkolb. The body of the 18-year-old boy had been discovered in a river near Chambéry the day after a night out at the end of 2014. His father never believed in the initial lead of an accidental fall, arguing disturbing elements: Thomas had taken an unusual route that evening, losing a shoe on the way, and his belt had curiously remained attached to a fence.
The study of these 40 files has already made it possible to eliminate two of them. Two missing persons, Alexis and Dogan, finally resurfaced without the justice system being informed. Pragmatic, the investigators hope above all to take advantage of the momentum generated by the Ariane cell to solve these dead end cases. It doesn't matter if Nordahl Lelandais is not at the end.
BBM
I cannot find any info about
Edwige Ukundirwase or
Pierre-Alexandre Seenyen. No doubt more news will turn up later now that their names are mentioned.
Samir Mathieu @samirmathieu
