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Estelle Mouzin case: for her father, "the goal remains to find her"

2020-08-21T20:13:08.777Z


For Eric Mouzin as for the investigators, despite the progress of the investigations, including the discovery of Estelle's DNA on an app mattress


In 17 years, he "never wanted to give up". Since that terrible January 9, 2003, Eric Mouzin has been fighting. To get her daughter back first, when there was still hope of finding her alive. To know the truth then, since he understood that the most terrible of the hypotheses was the most probable. Eric Mouzin now knows almost the whole truth. But his fight is not over. "We set a goal, and the goal remains to find Estelle," says the father of the girl who disappeared at the age of 9. Until we find Estelle, we will remain at the mercy of this couple. Of course, today we seem to know who did that to Estelle. But I have had this conviction for a long time. This is only the first step. "

For investigators too, and “even if the scenario of the disappearance is now known”, finding Estelle's body “is an important step”. "Estelle must be returned to her family," also hopes Me Corinne Herrmann, Eric Mouzin's lawyer. This is very important, not to have evidence that is already strong, but simply for this family to find their daughter. "

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Organized during the month of June in the former house of the killer in Ville-sur-Lumes as well as in the park of the castle of Sautou, former property of the couple, extensive excavations did not allow the body to be returned. 'Estelle to her father. The gendarmes of the Dijon research section (SR) had nevertheless invested heavily in this research, calling on archaeologists or soldiers specializing in the search for bodies.

"We closed the doors," said a source close to the investigation. We know what we searched and this is important because if Fourniret is transported there, he will not be able to take us by boat. "

A move from Fourniret to Guermantes planned

In fact, as in the murders for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment, the keys now seem to be in the hands of Michel Fourniret. It was thus he who had given indications to the investigators to find, buried at nearly 3 m deep, the bodies of Jeanne-Marie Desramault and the little Belgian Élizabeth Brichet in the park of the castle of Sautou.

But does the killer really want to help this time? "If there is the slightest detail of small relief that can put me on the track (Editor's note: body) I run right away", had promised the ogre of the Ardennes in March during his confession. Urged by the judge to be more precise, he nevertheless had this esoteric response: "You have a body on your arms and you must get rid of it without being seen, and quickly get rid of it [...] You don't know what to do and you do anything… ”.

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According to our information, a trip by Michel Fourniret to Guermantes, place of Estelle's disappearance, is being considered by the judge and the gendarmes in order to refresh the memory of the killer. It will be "depending on the health situation", ensures a close investigator. Already planned during the excavations in the Ardennes, the transport to the site of Michel Fourniret had been canceled in order to avoid contamination of the 78-year-old killer.

Source: leparis

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