Monique Olivier, the ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, judged with him for the murder of Farida Hammiche in 1988, was questioned extensively this Thursday afternoon at the Yvelines. She confirmed her participation in this "villainous crime" to recover a treasure unearthed in a cemetery in Val-d'Oise.
On the third day of Michel Fourniret's trial for murder, Thursday, November 15 before the Yvelines Assize Court, his alleged ex-wife and accomplice Monique Olivier evoked the facts in a confused manner, charging his co-accused, before wallowing in the silence.
"Gold is good for me. Monique Olivier believes that the motive for the murder of Farida Hammiche, in April 1988, was to recover coins and ingots unearthed a few days before with the victim, in a cemetery of Val-d'Oise. "Maybe there was a sexuality behind Fourniret, " she said, but it did not touch me if he had it in his mind. "
Monique Olivier is judged with her ex-husband, Michel Fourniret, for this crime. He for murder, she for complicity. Farida Hammiche was the wife of Jean-Pierre Hellegouarch, ex-robber and ex-prisoner of Fourniret at the Fleury-Mérogis Prison. They had sympathized and it was Hellegouarch who had asked the serial killer out of prison, via his wife, to help him dig up a treasure, supposed to come from bank raids by the famous gang of hairpieces.
He received a share of the booty according to Monique Olivier
On the indications of Hellegouarch, the gold hidden behind a tomb is dug up at night and brought back to Farida Hammiche's apartment. "To sort," said Monique Olivier, questioned extensively on the facts this Thursday, November 15. "I know that Fourniret received a share he had agreed with Jean-Pierre Hellegouarch," she continues. But a little later he felt that with the pain he had given himself, it was not enough, that he wanted more. "That is to say? The president asks. The accused hesitates, says sorry before clarifying: "That he would kill her, if she did not accept. "
The couple soon goes to the home of Farida Hammiche. And Michel Fourniret asked him to accompany them to visit a large farm in the Yvelines, he wanted to buy with Jean-Pierre Hellegouarch. "She agreed to come. We left and he stopped the car at the edge of a small road where there is a clearing. "
Monique Olivier says he did not see anything about the murder
According to Monique Olivier, who often repeats no more memories thirty years later, Michel Fourniret joined Farida Hammiche in the back of the vehicle and strangled her. She says she does not remember blood, or a bayonet, which the serial killer had mentioned. "Did you witness the murder? Asks the president. "No, I got off the car. " Did you know that the story of the farm did not exist? "Yes . " "Did you know that the goal was to kill Farida Hammiche? "Yes," she replies again, adding that after Fourniret called her to return to the car.
"What does he tell you? Asks Didier Safar. "That he killed Farida and loaded his body in the trunk. Then we left the clearing and drove a while to find a place to bury it. He certainly had his idea already. The body was buried in the area of Clairefontaine (Yvelines), but was never found.
The couple will then pick up the gold in Farida Hammiche's apartment, and drop her car in the parking lot of an airport to make it appear that she has run away. To deceive Jean-Pierre Hellegouarch, they will also participate in the search for the young woman.
"Without you, nothing would have been possible"
"It's not me who pushed him to murder. It fell on me like it could have fallen on another person. I never pushed him to kill, "she says. With his first two wives, however, Fourniret never killed, retorts dryly Me Didier Seban, lawyer of the widower and the lover of the victim, who would have turned 61 today.
Citing Fourniret's "criminal series" and naming the names of all its known victims, the council tries to push it to its limits. "You could have stopped him. Without you, nothing would have been possible. What do you think now? " Silence, downcast eyes of the accused.
"It's unthinkable. Now I ... It's unthinkable I have no ... It's not possible, "she sneezes, her eyes dry. And the lawyer to drive the point: "Since you seem to regret Madam, are there (victims) that we do not know? " "I do not know if there are others," the defendant sputters. "Do you think there are others? " Insists the council. "I do not know , " the accused finally whispered.
Me Yolaine Bancarel, a lawyer of the Hammiche family, tries to coax her, asking her to "make (a) effort of memory" . "Without you," Fourniret "is nothing, do you take the measure of that? " Always silence in the box.
Fourniret feared Jean-Pierre Hellegouarch
Gold will be converted, including a Belgian numismatist, allowing the couple to buy an apartment in Sedan, a house in Sart Custinne (Belgium), Castle Sautou in the Ardennes and vehicles. When Jean-Pierre Hellegouarch discovers that they bought a castle, the couple goes to Belgium. "Fourniret feared him, and wanted to kill him with explosive under his car. But did not do it. Michel Fourniret will be interviewed in turn this afternoon.