The searches to find the body of Estelle Mouzin, whose serial killer Michel Fourniret confessed to the murder, will resume “
Tuesday or Wednesday
” in the Ardennes, sources close to the investigation said Monday (April 5th).
According to France Info, the ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, Monique Olivier, gave unpublished information which will direct the investigators "
to a place which will be searched in the coming days
" in the Ardennes, said on the radio l lawyer of Eric Mouzin, Me Didier Seban.
She also admitted having played a role in the kidnapping of the missing girl in 2003.
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"
She was not in Seine-et-Marne but was present when Estelle was in the Ardennes, alive,
" said the lawyer to France Info.
“
With these individuals, it's only the facts and the evidence that make sense.
What they tell you ...
”, reacted to AFP, Eric Mouzin, the father of the girl who disappeared on January 9, 2003 when she was returning from school, in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne ).
On Friday, investigators closed a new series of unsuccessful searches on the outskirts of the village of Rumel, in the Ardennes.
This village is located 4 km from Ville-sur-Lumes, where, according to Monique Olivier, her ex-husband, in a house belonging to her sister, kidnapped, raped and killed Estelle Mouzin, 9 years old.
The convoy carrying in particular the examining magistrate Sabine Kheris had reached this site, explored for the first time, after a long hearing Thursday of the ex-wife of the serial killer, Monique Olivier, at the gendarmerie of Charleville-Mézières.
Several excavation operations have already been carried out in the region in recent months, but without breakthrough, especially in October in the presence of Michel Fourniret, whose state of health has meanwhile deteriorated.
Aged 78, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of seven girls, adolescents and young women between 1987 and 2001. He is indicted in three other cases.
The Parisian investigating judge Sabine Kheris took over in the summer of 2019 the direction of the investigations into four disappearances and murders linked to Michel Fourniret, and succeeded in obtaining a confession from the serial killer, in particular in the Estelle Mouzin case.