Investigators were heard this Wednesday in the context of the trial of Michel Fourniret for murder for the treasure of "hairpieces". They evoked the serial killer's personality and evoked the shadowy areas of the affair, including the place where Farida Hammiche's body was buried.
Heard at the trial of Michel Fourniret for murder in the Assize Court of Yvelines, several investigators raised the bar on Wednesday, the gray areas of this villainous case, including where the serial killer buried the body of his victim. The " ogre des Ardennes " allegedly murdered Farida Hammiche, the wife of a former prisoner, in 1988 to seize the treasure of the " gang of hairpieces " that he had dug up with her in a cemetery in the Val-de-Marne. d'Oise, on the indication of this former cellmate.
Two French investigators who attended in April 2005 hearings in Belgium of Michel Fourniret and his ex-wife, Monique Olivier, accused of complicity in this case, stressed Wednesday, the second day of the trial, the "manipulative" side of the couple . For a long time, Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier made the relatives of the victim believe that they were also looking for the missing person.
An investigator acknowledges that he had "maybe wandered around"
Then they ran the police around in circles while searching for Farida Hammiche's body, which was never found. Michel Fourniret denies from the beginning of the instruction to remember the exact location where the body is, which he says he buried in a vacant lot in the south of Yvelines. During the hearings of 2005 in Belgium, the killer shows himself very precise on the clothes of his victim, his alliance that "he left" or his "moans in the trunk" of the car before she succumbs . But, says one of the investigators, "it seemed like he knew where he buried the body, but kept it in reserve . "
On Tuesday evening, an investigator from the Versailles PJ admitted that Fourniret was "a player" and that he had "perhaps wandered" them during the body's search in the Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines area. "We did not have total collaboration. I think he took the opportunity to ride a van. (...) But we had to follow the routes he indicated, " conceded the police officer.
Other gray areas remain in this case, as civil party lawyers continue to point out. On the remuneration or not of Fourniret by Farida Hammiche for service rendered, on the car used to drive it to the scene of the crime or on the exact way in which he murdered it. The two defendants will have the opportunity to enlighten the civil parties Thursday, during their interrogation on the merits.