Available on Netflix, the documentary entitled In the head of Monique Olivier includes the testimony of a former co-detainee of Michel Fourniret, who affirms that the number of victims of the deceased serial killer would have been minimized.
At the controls of a new unpublished issue of the show C à vous Friday March 3, 2023 on France 5, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine once again received several guests on her set, in the company of his usual columnists: Patrick Cohen, Pierre Lescure, Mohamed Bouhafsi and Matthieu Belliard. Among the personalities who followed one another in C à vous that day, viewers were able to discover Michelle Fines and Christophe Astruc. The latter were invited on the set of the France 5 talk show as part of the promotion of the documentary entitled In the head of Monica Olivieravailable on Netflix.
As a reminder, Monique Olivier is the widow of the famous serial killer Michel Fourniret, nicknamed “The Ogre of the Ardennes“, who died on May 10, 2021. As a reminder, the criminal had been sentenced to incompressible life imprisonment for five murders and two assassinations young girls in France and Belgium. In total, Michel Fourniret confessed to 11 murders. He was also suspected in 21 other cases of the disappearance of girls and young women. For her part, Monique Olivier, suspected of having been his accomplice, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a security period of 28 years.
Michel Fourniret: the famous serial killer behind 35 murders?
In the documentary devoted to the latter, Michelle Fines and Christophe Astruc were able to collect the testimony of a former co-detainee of Michel Fourniret, which claims that the number of victims of the deceased serial killer would have been minimized. “It’s a small scoop (…). Michel Fourniret wrote him this incredible, mind-blowing letter, where he says: ‘Here are the first eight murders’, those who had already been confessed, and then white lines. Nine, ten, eleven… up to thirty-five, saying: ‘May it please the justice of France and Europe to manage to fill in these lines’“, explained Michelle Fines, before recalling that Michel Fourniret had already confessed to 16 attempted rapes during one of his first arrests.