What precisely was Michel Fourniret's schedule on January 11, 2003?
The answer to this question could depend on the outcome of the search for the remains of Estelle Mouzin, alleged victim of the serial killer, after three days of unsuccessful searches in the Ardennes.
To discover
Her tenant owes her more than 31,000 euros, she lives in a motorhome
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The question is asked tirelessly by the investigators to the ex-wife and accomplice of Fourniret, Monique Olivier, led in the communal wood of Issancourt-et-Rumel (Ardennes), and who has been guiding the new research of the body since Monday, April 26. of the girl.
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"
If Michel Fourniret stayed two or three hours on the spot to make a hole, it is not the same as if he stayed ten minutes, so the schedule is very important to determine
", summarized his lawyer, Me Richard Delgenes, confirming that the operation had still not "
made it possible to find the body
»By Estelle Mouzin, who disappeared at the age of nine in 2003. Several times during the day, Monique Olivier paced, stopping here and there, the path along which she claims to have left her ex-husband this Saturday of 2003 to make Estelle's body disappear.
She was accompanied by the examining magistrate Sabine Kheris to whom she confessed for the first time on April 1 her involvement in the kidnapping of the child, kidnapped while on her way to school in Guermantes (Seine- et-Marne).
Situation
Already sentenced in 2008 to life imprisonment with a safety sentence of 28 years for complicity in four of the murders of her ex-husband, Monique Olivier "
closes her eyes, reflects, recovers
", describes her lawyer.
“
We redo the schedule in the morning.
We resume when we have gone to the hypermarket next door, minute by minute.
Sometimes it blocks, sometimes it comes back.
She is in that state of mind.
(...) It is very, very long,
”he explains further.
Without excluding that "
if the body was not buried deep enough
", it is possible "
that nothing is unfortunately found
".
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In the meantime, the excavation site, initially cleared below the path, has already been partially leveled by the excavators. A depression, designated by a neighbor on the edge of the area, was also examined. In which direction to go now? Is it necessary for example to aim "
10 m higher
" than the zone initially indicated, wonders Me Delgenes. “
It's complicated,
” he breathes. All the more so "
that we have no benchmarks on a particular
modus operandi
or ceremonial
" of Fourniret to make his victims disappear. "
Sometimes he abandons them in a wood, sometimes in a hole
", it is "
very complicated to try to know how he could have thought
", synthesizes thelawyer.
Monique Olivier "participates"
Monique Olivier in any case, “
has no barrier in saying 'if I say something, it will turn against me', we have passed that stage
, he assures us.
She is in a state of mind in which she participates
”.
Enough to justify that "
the excavations continue for two more days
", because "
we are quite convinced that the body is in the wood
".
The town is located 4 km from Ville-sur-Lumes, where, according to Monique Olivier, Fourniret kidnapped, raped and killed Estelle, in a house of her sister, right in the "
perimeter
" of the serial killer, had recalled Tuesday the lawyer of the Mouzin family, Me Didier Seban.
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An area where residents, like Régine Dardard, 63, say their “
sadness for parents
”.
"
It's been 18 years that it lasts, at some point it has to stop,
" said Régine Dardard, who can not help thinking "
all the same that he was walking in the village when there was children always outside
”.
Fourniret, 78, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of seven young women or teenage girls between 1987 and 2001, ended up confessing in March 2020 his responsibility in the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, after being questioned by Monique Olivier .
