05/10/2021 3:48 PM
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Updated 05/10/2021 3:48 PM
Michel Fourniret, the serial killer who terrorized France and who was known as
"the ogre of the Ardennes",
died this Monday
for the death of at least eight young women and girls in that region.
Fourniret, 79, was
serving two life sentences
and had been admitted this Monday to the La Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris in an "irreversible" situation.
The Prosecutor's Office indicated, in a statement, that it opened an investigation into the causes of death.
The French Army and Police at the gates of the house of the confessed serial killer Michel Fourniret.
Stock Photo DPA.
In total,
Fourniret was convicted of eight murders
, although the Justice was investigating his possible involvement in two other deaths, and he claimed a total of eleven victims.
He was arrested in 2003 in Belgium
after attempting to kidnap a girl, and the authorities began to pinpoint him as the person responsible for the disappearances of girls in the Ardennes, a wooded region between southern Belgium and north-eastern France.
His third wife, Monique Olivier, was found an accessory for helping to attract several victims, and sentenced to 28 years in prison.
A wicked and obsessive man
Son of an unstructured family (
alcoholic father and abusive mother
), Fourniret began to have problems with the Justice for sexual abuse of a girl as early as 1967, at the age of 25 and the father of a family.
Described by the investigators of his case as very intelligent and perverse, between 1984 and 1987 he served a first prison sentence for sexual assaults and rapes of minors.
Michel Fourniret, 79, was serving two life sentences for the murders.
AP Photo.
After meeting Olivier while he was in prison, they became a couple when they were released and went to live in a rural area of Belgium.
There he began in December 1987 a murderous journey through the border area, which did not end until his arrest in 2003, although one of the crimes occurred in Nantes (Atlantic coast).
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