“Why today are we judging, alone in the box, Monique Olivier, for crimes committed by Fourniret, 35 years after the death of the first victim?” It is with these words that Michelle Fines wanted to alert people to the dysfunction of justice in this major affair. Asked in Daily on TMC, the husband November 28, 2023, the journalist who followed the Michel Fourniret affair regrets that certain judgments are made after the death of the main accused. This November day, it is indeed his ex-wife and accomplice, Monique Olivier, who is alone on trial before the Hauts-de-Seine Assizes for complicity in the murder of three young girls: Joanna Parrish, Marie-Angèle Domèce and Estelle Mouzin. And according to the journalist, it is not thanks to justice that the criminal must now answer for her actions. “It was not justice that restarted the Estelle Mouzin affair. She is a fellow inmate of Monique Olivier, who, one day in prison, decided to make her talk. And she made Monique Olivier speak “she confided.
The confessions obtained by the fellow inmate were initially not taken seriously
Michelle Fines – author of Inside the killer’s brain, the Michel Fourniret affair – Monique Olivierpublished on November 8, 2023 by Fayard editions – then explained: “Monique Olivier said that it was she who made the alibi phone call”. The phone call in question had been the alibi put forward by investigators in order to exonerate Michel Fourniret in the disappearance of little Estelle Mouzin. “The evening of Estelle Mouzin’s kidnapping, he made a phone call from his home, 250 km away, in Belgium, to his son […] to wish him on his birthday. While he was the main suspect, investigators turned away from this lead, despite significant inconsistencies, particularly in his son’s version. It was only years later that Monique Olivier’s cellmate, “a Serbian detainee, who is a character all the same, went to see Éric Mouzin’s lawyer [le père d’Estelle, ndlr.] and the police coming out of prison saying ‘This is what Monique Olivier told me'”, reported the journalist. However, she added: “We didn’t believe him. It took four years for justice to begin“. And if “justice has lost a phenomenal amount of time”according to Yann Barthès’ guest, there are several reasons for this. “Because it is dysfunctional, because maybe somewhere, deep down, women’s crimes are not considered that important“.
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