Nordahl Lelandais, judged from this Wednesday, February 26 for a sexual assault and already sentenced to life for the murder of young Maëlys, will appear before the Reims Court of Appeal with a new name.
Judged for a sexual assault against one of his little cousins, Nordahl Lelandais will appear with a new name before the Reims Court of Appeal from Wednesday, February 26, the first day of the trial. According to here Champagne-Ardenne and here Isère, he chose the name of Périnet by changing his civil status and to take the name of his mother’s young girl, Christiane.
The name would have become too heavy to wear. In 2019, the criminal’s brother and his mother had already taken the same steps, after having received threats and having been physically assaulted. According to the family lawyer, “that will not change the situation much, but they thought about it by saying ‘we will try to make a new personality, we can no longer bear the name that we have been wearing for hundreds of years, the name of our son ‘”.
Nordahl Lelandais also became a father in prison in 2023. The mother of the child would be a woman with whom he had a “epistolary relationship”, according to Le Figaro. “After the letters, there have been visits. And feelings were born,” explains the source, saying that it was not “just a romantic, it is a woman who has a life”. After receiving several letters from women, the man would have had “several romantic relationships” in prison.
Have a legitimate interest in doing so
According to article 61 of the Civil Code, any adult can ask an officer of the civil status of his place of residence or depositary of his birth certificate his name change, on a condition: to have a legitimate interest in doing so .
The 42-year-old, the former dog handler is re-joined on appeal to Reims for acts of sexual assault and threats to a minor relative at the time of events, in 2017. Initially sentenced to one year in prison in January 2024 by The Charleville-Mézières court, he challenged this decision. The trial will take place behind closed doors.
Already heavily sanctioned by justice, he is currently serving a perpetuity criminal criminal sentence for the murder of the young Maëlys in 2017, as well as a conviction of 20 years in prison for the homicide of corporal Arthur Noyer, occurred the same year .