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Disappearance of Estelle Mouzin: Michel Fourniret delivered "repeated confessions"

2020-03-07T14:43:16.833Z


Heard by the investigating judge from Wednesday to Friday, the serial killer recognized for the first time unambiguously that he was the author of


After using ellipses, digressions and enjoying losing justice, Michel Fourniret changed position. During his last interrogation before the examining magistrate Sabine Khéris, conducted between Wednesday 4 and Friday 6 March at the Paris judicial court, the 77-year-old serial killer formally admitted to having killed Estelle Mouzin, this little girl who disappeared on January 9, 2003 in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne), indicate to the Parisian - Today in France sources close to the investigation, confirming information from Le Point. A case that has haunted magistrates and investigators for 17 years and in which has long hung the shadow of the septuagenarian.

“Fourniret delivered strong, repeated but not detailed confessions. He is no longer in a position to hide behind his memory lapses, but in a position where his memory would have returned. It has evolved, ”says one of our sources. On the other hand, he would not have provided, at this stage, precise indications on the place where the body of Estelle Mouzin would rest.

It is the first time that Michel Fourniret has been categorical about his involvement in this affair. During his first appearance examination on November 27, he had blown hot and cold: "I'm not sure I have anything to do with it". The killer had made ambiguous statements, alleging declining mental health. "At the age I am, you know, I have nothing to fear or lose," the serial killer also pleaded. If this little one had crossed my path I would tell you. But I don't remember. If I am unable to tell you, yes, I am responsible for his disappearance , I urge you to consider me as guilty, to treat me as guilty. "

This hearing had nevertheless brought him under investigation for "abduction and forcible confinement followed by death". Judge Khéris, who resumed investigations in the summer of 2019 with the gendarmes of the research section of Dijon (Côte-d'Or) has indeed decided to give a boost to the file. Successive twists and turns that started with the confidences of Monique Olivier, Fourniret's ex-wife.

A manipulator profile that encourages caution

After having protected the killer for a long time, with whom she was sentenced to life imprisonment, she declared that she had used him as an alibi for the day of Estelle Mouzin's disappearance. It would be she, not Michel Fourniret, who would have made that famous phone call to the killer's son from their home in the Belgian Ardennes. Monique Olivier had then declared that her former husband had left their home that day to "hunt". And even to affirm to the examining magistrate: "I think that Michel Fourniret killed Estelle Mouzin well".

The new statements by Michel Fourniret on his involvement in the murder of Estelle must nevertheless be taken with caution with regard to his manipulative profile. Sources do not exclude that the serial killer, at his advanced age, wants to rewrite his criminal legend or always mislead justice.

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Contacted, Michel Fourniret's lawyer, like those of Estelle Mouzin's father, did not wish to speak.

Source: leparis

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