Netflix is broadcasting a documentary devoted to the Fourniret affair this Thursday, March 2. An extract was unveiled by Télé-Loisirs, and, in this one, it is the habits of the serial killer who are mentioned by his neighbors. Chilling words.
Michel Fourniret is a serial killer who died in May 2021, at the age of 79. He took many secrets with him, including the location of the body of young Estelle Mouzindisappeared since January 2003. The Fourniret affair is of great interest to the French and Netflix is broadcasting a documentary entitled The Fourniret affair: inside the mind of Monique Olivier, this Thursday, March 2. Télé-Loisirs was able to watch it and spotted a sequence in which chilling remarks are made. For a long time, Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier lived in Sart-Custinne, a Belgian village of around a hundred inhabitants. Thus, their slightest deeds and gestures did not go unnoticed. It was first a neighbor who spoke. “He was aggressive with the neighborhood, he was really special“, she explains. What struck him the most? His attitude towards cats. “As soon as he saw them, he killed them“, she revealed before continuing: “Because it bothered him that they passed in the garden. He buried them at home.” At that time, this young woman would never have imagined that she lived next to a serial killer, nicknamed the ogre of the Ardennes thereafter.
In this documentary, several people who worked with Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier spoke. There is in particular Didier Verlaine, the director of the federal police of Namur. In August 2020, Monique Olivier is coming out of silence for the first time. The following year, in August 2021, she admitted having played a role in the kidnapping and death of Estelle Mouzin. Long-awaited confidences and she had notably given an indication of the location of the little girl’s body, in vain. During his first meeting with the wife of the serial killer, Didier Verlaine remembered having had a very particular feeling. “She is a lady with no particular physical appeal. A witch-like appearance, but maybe that’s a bit excessive.” he confided before continuing: “With her long black hair and her rather apathetic face“. If the couple seemed to be completely normal and so “rather secret“At first sight, those who were able to meet them more kept very bad memories.
Monique Olivier: will she face justice again?
Rapist, pedophile and serial killer, Michel Fourniret is the author of crimes committed against young girls in France and Belgium. Arrested in Belgium for attempted kidnapping of a young girl in June 2003, he had was sentenced to irreducible life for the murders of seven young women, committed between 1987 and 2001. In March 2020, a year before his death, he admitted his responsibility in the Estelle Mouzin affair. Today, the only one who continues to speak is Monique Olivier. The serial killer’s wife revealed that she had “exchanged a few words” with the young woman, specifying later that she had never seen her again. Sentenced to life imprisonment and twenty years’ imprisonmentsources close to the case indicated a few weeks ago that Monique Olivier could face justice again, during a trial in November 2023. Will she see her sentence increase?