The Ogre des Ardennes is dead.
Michel Fourniret, 79 years old, was hospitalized urgently on Saturday May 8 at the interregional secure hospital unit of La Salpêtrière in Paris for respiratory failure problems, as we revealed to you on Monday.
He had been placed in a coma and was considered by doctors to be non-resuscitable.
An end-of-life support protocol had been initiated.
Shortly after, in the afternoon, the Paris prosecutor's office announced the death of the serial killer.
In recent months, the state of health of the detainee, who was imprisoned at the Fresnes penitentiary center, had deteriorated sharply.
He had already been hospitalized several times, notably in November 2020 at the Henri-Mondor hospital in Créteil (Val-de-Marne) where, in a coma, he had been placed in intensive care.
Sentenced twice to life imprisonment for the murders of eight women or adolescent girls and indicted four times for those of little Estelle Mouzin or young women Lydie Logé, Joanna Parrish and Marie-Angèle Domèce ‚Michel Fourniret will therefore never be tried for these crimes of which he admitted to be the author.
The serial killer died "at 3 pm at the Interregional Secure Hospital Unit (UHSI) of Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris," announced the Paris prosecutor, Rémy Heitz. "An investigation was opened to
search for the causes of death
, entrusted to the 3rd district of judicial police," he said.