A series of hearings will take place this week to unveil new elements on the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, produced in 2003.
Since Tuesday August 18, Monique Olivier, the ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, has been interviewed by the investigating judge in Paris in charge of the investigations into the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, according to the France-Presse agency. The former accomplice of the "ogre des Ardennes", 71, was removed from her prison in Fleury-Mérogis and taken to judge Sabine Khéris, who is scheduled to conduct several interrogations until Friday.
These hearings aim to focus on the four cases entrusted to the judge in which Michel Fourniret is involved, starting with the murder of Estelle Mouzin, whose body is still wanted.
The affair of little Estelle got off the ground after confessions from Monique Olivier. The latter contradicted before the judge the alibi provided until then by her ex-husband for January 9, 2003, the date of Estelle's disappearance in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne). This news had led a few days later to the indictment of Fourniret for "kidnapping and sequestration followed by death". During her last hearing, on January 24, Monique Olivier reiterated her accusations against her ex-husband by assuring that he had "killed" the girl, citing possible "spotting" a few days before her disappearance.
Michel Fourniret, 78, who suffers from memory problems, then confessed. "I recognize there a being who is no longer there through my fault," he told the judge, deeming "relevant" that the body, never found, could be in one of its former properties in the Ardennes.
But the excavations, which took place over four days at the end of June in a house that belonged to the serial killer's sister, in Ville-sur-Lumes, as well as in the Château du Sautou, did not allow the body to be found. .
The words of Monique Olivier (sentenced to life as an accomplice in the crimes of her ex-husband) which may be collected could also relate to the disappearances of Marie-Angèle Domece and Joanna Parrish, admitted by the serial killer.
Estelle is therefore not the only disappearance to remain a mystery. A fourth, unresolved case was recently added to the Fourniret case, that of the disappearance in 1993 in the Orne of Lydie Logé, 29 years old. On June 9, the investigation was disoriented in Paris and in turn entrusted to Sabine Khéris.
It was in 2008 that Michel Fourniret was convicted of the murders of seven young women or adolescent girls between 1987 and 2001 and he was sentenced to irreducible life, before being convicted again in 2018 for a heinous murder.