Justice was forced to release one of the suspects on Tuesday, March 18, in the Leslie and Kevin affair. In question, a banal procedure error.
Suspect in the murder affair of Leslie and Kevin, 22 and 21 years old, in November 2022, Nathan B., 24, was released this Tuesday, March 18, 2025. The one who had been placed in pre -trial detention since his indictment, which occurred in March 2023, remains nevertheless subject to a judicial control and will have to point daily to the gendarmerie. A surprising decision, which did not fail to revolt the relatives of the victims. “We are completely indignant. Criminals (sic) have more rights than victims!” reacted Tuesday to the Figaro Leslie’s mother.
But for the lawyer for the principal interested party, there is only a question of “a fair application of the Code of Criminal Procedure”. For his part, the general prosecutor of the Poitiers Court of Appeal, Frédérique Porterie, explained in a press release that the lawyer for Nathan B. “Having asserted a procedural error linked to his convocation before the liberty and detention judge during the contradictory debate relating to the extension of his pre -trial detention, the investigation chamber made the request of NB and ordered its immediate release.”
An email address error in question
“A debate took place before the liberty and detention judge on February 21 to decide on the renewal of my client’s deposit warrant,” said Nathan B. lawyer, Me Orane Quénot, interviewed by The Parisian. Problem, she would never have received a summons. “So I couldn’t participate,” said the lawyer. The daily specifies that Me Orane Quénot would however have been summoned. An email would have been sent to him, but to an obsolete email address. At this point, no one knows why this email address suddenly reappeared.
Anyway, that was enough for the lawyer to plead on Tuesday the “administrative error”, leading in his wake the nullity of this renewal. “Since March 3, the anniversary of his deposit warrant, Nathan B. was therefore irregularly detained. This leads to his immediate release from this Tuesday, March 18,” said Me Orane Quénot. Nathan B. should therefore be able to appear free during the expected trial in early 2026, unless not respecting his judicial control which remains rather strict. Indeed, in addition to the daily score at the gendarmerie, Nathan B. “prohibited from leaving the department of house arrest and prohibition to enter into relation to co-authors and all civil parties”.
Questioned by Here La Rochellethe lawyer for the father and the mother-in-law of Kevin does not takeoff. Denouncing the “failure” of justice Poitevine, Me Lionel Béthune de Moro revealed that the Attorney General, “who is not responsible for this error of convocation” would have presented his sincere regrets.