Michel Fourniret dead, the investigation into his crimes is not over yet.
For the second time since the death of the Ogre des Ardennes, his ex-wife Monique Olivier is heard this Monday morning by the examining magistrate Sabine Khéris at the Paris judicial court.
For three days, she must be questioned about the Estelle Mouzin case for which she is being indicted.
She could also be heard on the Lydie Logé case, another case in which she is suspected.
But the main protagonist of this sprawling criminal death series, what to expect from these new interrogations carried out by the obstinate magistrate?
Over the past few months, Monique Olivier has certainly made a significant contribution to the progress of the investigations.
In particular, she acknowledged on several occasions - after having lied for a long time - that her ex-husband kidnapped, raped and killed Estelle, kidnapped on January 9, 2003 in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne).
She also assured to have accompanied Michel Fourniret to Issancourt-et-Rumel to let him bury the body of the girl.
"There are secrets that she does not want to share"
On the other hand, during the last excavations carried out in September in the Ardennes, the former companion of Michel Fourniret claimed to be able to give no additional indication on the fate of Estelle's body. A posture had judged Me Didier Seban, the lawyer of Eric Mouzin. Monique Olivier "is the co-author with Michel Fourniret of the crimes we know and therefore, while promising that she does everything, that she wants to help us, there are secrets that she does not want to reveal", s' was annoyed the penalist at the end of a new campaign of unsuccessful searches. "Be careful not to try to force a confession at all costs, elements that she would not have because we would not have done sooner what needed to be done", retorted Me Richard Delgenes, which highlighted the good collaboration of Monique Olivier.
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During these three new days of interrogation, the ex-wife of the Ogre should also be questioned about the Lydie Logé affair, this young woman who disappeared in December 1993 in the Orne and whose body has never been found. After years of mystery, his DNA was extracted in 2019 from a hair element discovered in the van seized in 2003 from Michel Fourniret. "I do not believe that it can be someone other than me who has ended his life course", admitted the serial killer during his police custody, in an esoteric formula of which he had the secret . Due to the deterioration of his state of health, however, he was never heard on the merits by the judge in this case. For her part, Monique Olivier has always contested the slightest role in this disappearance,arguing that her husband would sometimes go "hunting" alone.
"Do not try to give him the role of Michel Fourniret"
Judge Sabine Khéris knows, however, that Monique Olivier has long accompanied her husband during his crimes.
She also knows that he frequently told her about misdeeds that she had not witnessed.
Could Monique Olivier now say more about this issue which remains tinged with a veil of mystery and in which nothing seems to formally incriminate her?
“It is not by saying that Monique Olivier is co-author or responsible for the murders of Michel Fourniret that we will move forward, had warned Me Delgenes last September.
Let's not try to give him the role of Michel Fourniret.
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Beyond the Lydie Logé and Estelle Mouzin cases, Monique Olivier also indicted for her role in the murders of Joanna Parrish and Marie-Angèle Domèce, committed in 1990 and 1988 by Michel Fourniret.