For the fourth time in a little over a year, the gendarmes of the Dijon (Côte-d'Or) research section and the Parisian judge Sabine Khéris survey the lands of Michel Fourniret in search of the body of little Estelle. Mouzin.
According to corroborating sources, excavations began Monday, March 30 in the afternoon in the Ardennes.
They are currently focused on a wetland located in Issancourt, a town bordering Ville-sur-Lumes.
It is in this small town in the Ardennes, in the house of his late sister, that Michel Fourniret is suspected of having taken the 9-year-old girl after her kidnapping in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne), on January 9, 2003. According to our information, if Michel Fourniret is not present on site due to his state of health, Monique Olivier must be transported to the Ardennes on Wednesday.
The ex-wife of the serial killer, who has always assured that she does not know what Michel Fourniret has done with Estelle Mouzin, will be extracted from Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne) prison in the morning.
She could attend the last two days of excavation.
Places recently mentioned by Monique Olivier
The hope of one day finding the body of little Estelle Mouzin still remains alive for her father Eric and the family lawyers, My Didier Seban and Corinne Herrmann.
In March 2020, the serial killer had assured to have approached the girl in Guermantes, to have killed her, but not to remember the fate of the body.
In August of the same year, Monique Olivier was more precise, assuring that Michel Fourniret had kidnapped the girl in Guermantes before transporting her to her sister's house in Ville-sur-Lumes.
It was on a mattress found in this home that the experts were able to discover, a few months ago, the partial DNA of Estelle Mouzin.
A few weeks after the serial killer's confession, a first series of unsuccessful excavations had taken place in Ville-sur-Lumes and at the Sautou castle, former property of Michel Fourniret, where he had buried two of his victims.
Examining magistrate Sabine Khéris had, in October 2020, transported Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier to the scene, without further results.
The last searches took place in December in places targeted by the killer.
According to our information, the investigators are interested this time in places recently mentioned by Monique Olivier facing Judge Khéris.
