Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier: who is their only son, Selim? : Current Woman The MAG

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Being the “son of” has never been easy. Even less for Selim Fourniret. His name is so hard to bear thathe preferred to change it. Because, at almost 33 years old, he is the only son of Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier. Her father was sentenced to life for the kidnapping and murder of seven teenage girls, and her mother also sentenced to life in prison for complicity in these crimes. Everything changed for him in 2003, when he stood in front of the television news. Only 14 at the time, Selim learns that his father is a pedophile rapist and murderer, while his mother has always been his accomplice. Seventeen years after the arrest of his parents, the son of the ogre of the Ardennes has failed to turn the page. Monday August 10, 2020, TF1 has started shooting the TV movie Fourniret, the hunt, directed by Yves Rénier. Philippe Torreton plays the killer, Isabelle Gélinas, his wife Monique Olivier, and we will also find François-Xavier Demaison and Mélanie Bernier in the cast. But this fiction, broadcast Monday, March 15 on TF1 at 9:05 p.m., truly revolted Selim. In a statement shared on Twitter by journalist Oli Porri Santoro, he expressed his anger. “Every time I get out they put me back in ", he begins.

Michel Fourniret's son “repulsed” by the TF1 TV movie

Selim Fourniret then explains to have "long resisted the suicide call " – unlike his half-sister Marie-Hélène, who ended her life on February 20, 2006 – and reveals that her wounds will not be “probably never healed ”. Today, Selim says he has rebuilt his life abroad. But the TF1 telefilm plunges him again into his grief: “Mr. Yves Rénier, you have made a miserable decision both to continue his work and to raise money on the backs of dead children. I deplore the morbid attraction of the spectacle society for suffering. Your taste of blood makes me sick”, he writes. “How dare you turn this endless tragedy into … fiction? How dare you elevate Michel to the rank of hero of a film? (….) Just the idea of ​​knowing that TF1, the leading channel in Europe, is capable of raising two child rapists to the rank of icon, I'm nauseous. Knowing Michel better than anyone, know Mr. Rénier, that you make him there the greatest gift a serial killer could dream of : you are going to canonize his bloody fresco with Hollywood means ”, deplores the son of Michel Fourniret.

Selim Fourniret “prohibited" to TF1 to use him “like commercial propaganda " and demands that his name not be mentioned. He is calling for the project to be canceled and says he will not hesitate to take the channel to court. And if the son of the “evil couple ”, as he himself nicknames his parents, seems so disgusted, it is because the acts of Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier have truly ruined his existence and continue to haunt him every time he tries to sleep. . It was in 2018 that the serial killer's son broke his silence for the first time. Selim then openly confided in Oli Porri Santoro for his book The ogre's son. A work on which he had returned on the set of Seven to Eight : “Selim Fourniret no longer exists. My parents are dead. Now it's Monique Olivier and Michel Fourniret. They are two strangers”, He had testified with his face covered. He said then the memory of an ordinary father, but angry : “He often got angry over trifles, never physical violence, just screaming, verbal violence. He was very bossy. I even wanted Monique more than Michel because we had a bond, she and I”, he remembered then. “If the relatives of the victims manage to forgive them, I will be able to do so. But as it will not be possible, I will not be able ”, he concluded at the time.

Selim saw Michel Fourniret again in prison

Since the release of his book, Oli Porri Santoro is regularly asked about his meeting with the son of the ogre of the Ardennes. “He has this terrible phrase: "I owe my survival only to my cowardice." He considers that if he had been brave, he would have killed himself”, the journalist recalled in particular in the columns of Society. Because in the minds of some French people, Selim is and will remain the son of a monster. “There are still people today who threaten him, hateful people who say he can die because, anyway, it's in his DNA ", says Oli Porri Santoro. Selim no longer wants to have to do with his parents. However, he had reconnected with Michel Fourniret in 2014, at the request of Oli Porri Santoro. He had then maintained an epistolary relationship with his father, with the aim of making him confess to other murders. January 16, 2016 he had visited her in the prison parlor from Ensisheim, in Alsace. Thus, detainee 5.451 admitted his responsibility in the murder of the British Joanna Parish in 1990.

“Seeing his father again in prison allowed him for the first time to face the man who ruined her life”, Explained Oli Porri Santoro on NJR12 in March 2020. For his part, the journalist was surprised by this visit:“I expected to see an ogre, and found myself standing in front of a short man with disproportionate hands to his body”, He explains to our colleagues. “When he mimics you how he strangled his victims, with a broad smile, it is impressive. But what surprised me the most was her skin. He does not have the skin of a man who suffered from incarceration or labor", He continues before adding:"He makes everyone believe that he has memory problems, and that he's an old grandpa now, a little tired. But it's wrong.”For Oli Porri Santoro, no doubt, Michel Fourniret“remembers all the first names of his victims, relatives of the latter, addresses”. “Unfortunately, unlike us, he knows how many people he has killed”, He lamented then. The serial killer has since admitted in particular to the murder ofEstelle Mouzin, missing in 2003 at the age of 9 and never found. It was not until March 5, 2020 that Michel Fourniret confessed to having kidnapped, kidnapped, raped and strangled the little girl.

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