Friday, June 23, 2023, The Parisian announced that the investigating judge of the “cold cases” center of Nanterre requested the dismissal of Monique Olivier, ex-wife of serial killer Michel Fourniret, before the Assize Court of Hauts-de-Seine for “complicity” in the kidnapping of Estelle Mouzin in 2003. As reported France Info Monday July 17, 2023, Sélim Fourniret’s mother will be tried at the Hauts-de-Seine assizes from November 27, 2024. A trial that should last “at least three weeks”. She will also appear for the kidnapping, murder and rape of Marie-Angèle Domèce in 1988 and Joanna Parrish in 1990. As a reminder, these three cases had been closed at the beginning of February 2023allowing the opening of a trial. “Forensic truth is important to families of victims. They have fought so hard to get it,” declared Me Didier Seban, lawyer for the families of the victims, quoted by The Parisian.
What does Monique Olivier’s daily life look like in prison?
Monique Olivier is currently serving a life sentence in Fleury-Mérogis prison for having been an accomplice to four murders and gang rape committed by her ex-husband, Michel Fourniret. She was also condemned 20 years imprisonment for complicity in a fifth murder, still committed by the serial killer, nicknamed the Ogre of the Ardennes. What does his daily life look like in prison? In an investigation Thursday, August 13, 2021, Society had devoted a long paragraph to the prison life of this beggar. His only contacts would be limited to one of his sons, to a nun, with whom she would correspond, and men of justice. Reading would also help Monique Olivier occupy the time.