The excavation operations to try to update the body of Estelle Mouzin, this young girl who would have been kidnapped in 2003 by the serial killer Michel Fourniret, resumed this Monday, April 26 in Issancourt-et-Rumel.
For the investigators, it is a question of combing several hectares of forest;
a needle in a haystack.
But it was without counting on the precious clue of a local resident who thinks he has discovered a kind of grave in a private plot of the Bois d'Issancourt,
Le Figaro
learned on
Monday, confirming information from
L'Ardennais
.
To discover
Her tenant owes her more than 31,000 euros, she lives in a motorhome
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Daniel Delogne had been thinking alone at home for some time.
For this retiree from the parks and gardens of Charleville who knows the Issancourt forest by heart, the body of the missing young girl cannot be found in the current search area.
“The forest was almost completely cut at the beginning of the 90s which means that the ground is full of stumps, young roots and stones.
In other words, impossible to dig, ”he
explained to
Le Figaro on
Monday.
"A kind of shallow hole, 1.20m long by 40 centimeters wide"
So, on April 10 at the beginning of the morning, Daniel decides to go himself through the forest, trying to get
"into the killer's head"
. Thus, after several hours of walking in a sheltered fir forest with softer soil, he ended up discovering a kind of excavation covered with leaves and brambles about twenty meters from a path accessible by car. . “
At the start I left without really knowing what I was looking for and then all of a sudden it jumped out at me
,
”
says this resident of Issancourt. And to continue:
“it is a kind of shallow hole, 1.20m long by 40 centimeters wide covered with leaves and brambles. We can still very clearly distinguish the edges of the tomb ”.
For the septuagenarian there is therefore no doubt that "
something is buried under there
".
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Without touching anything, Daniel Delogne immediately decides to alert the gendarmes who take his statement within the hour that follows.
The following Monday, the latter drove several soldiers, including a gendarme from the Sedan search brigade, to the location of his discovery.
“They took several photos and took action before they pulled me away from the area,” he
explains.
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On April 1, the ex-wife of the Ogre des Ardennes admitted for the first time having played a role in the kidnapping of young Estelle Mouzin, kidnapped 18 years ago in Guermantes in Seine-et-Marne. It was during this interrogation that the latter indicated a path on the edge of the Issancourt forest where she would have accompanied Michel Fourniret before letting him go and bury the body of the 9-year-old victim. A month earlier, the serial killer had finally admitted his responsibility in this case. Several excavations have already been undertaken in the region in recent months at the initiative of the examining magistrate Sabine Khéris, in vain.
