Is the outcome close in the Estelle Mouzin affair? The serial killer Michel Fourniret returned to court on Tuesday, a few days after the statements of his ex-wife accusing him of having kidnapped, raped and strangled the girl who disappeared in 2003. Nothing has yet filtered from this crucial hearing , which could be the culmination of an investigation of which here are the key dates.
- January 9, 2003
Estelle Mouzin, 9, disappears in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne), between her school and her home. A judicial investigation for "kidnapping and sequestration of a minor of 15 years" is open in Meaux.
The inhabitants of the village are questioned, some placed in police custody and then released.
- March 18, 2003
The Meaux prosecutor declares that one of the “orientations” of the investigation “is that of a person with pedophile appetites”. One hundred and thirty-four soldiers combed the woods around Guermantes in vain.
- June 24, 2003
The prosecutor distributes a composite of a "very important witness" and photos of a white utility vehicle. A girl from Estelle's school had said she had been bothered by this motorist three weeks before the incident.
- July 2003
Versailles investigators say they are studying the case of pedophile Michel Fourniret, who has just been arrested in Belgium after the attempted kidnapping of a girl. “One track among others”.
- December 16, 2003
75 people convicted in France for sexual assault or kidnapping of a minor are heard by the police, without result.
- 2004
A man is arrested in the Oise and then exonerated.
- June 20, 2006
The Charleville-Mézières prosecutor's office, in charge of the Fourniret case, sends information to the Meaux prosecutor's office. But on January 6, 2007, the police cleared the serial killer.
- 2008
A restaurant in Brie-Comte-Robert (Seine-et-Marne) is searched, a "false trail" concludes the police.
- January 2009
Eric Mouzin, Estelle's father, recalls an Estonian lead, after seeing a photo of a teenage girl looking like Estelle on an Estonian porn site.
- October 7, 2013
The expertise of thousands of hairs and hairs taken from Michel Fourniret's car does not allow any trace of Estelle's DNA to be found.
- December 28, 2017
Nordhal Lelandais, prosecuted for the kidnapping and murder of Maëlys, 9, on August 27, 2017 in Isère, is exonerated in the Mouzin case.
- January 8, 2018
Eric Mouzin attacks the State for "gross negligence", accusing the police of repeated negligence in the investigation, in particular on Fourniret's alibi.
- March 2, 2018
Michel Fourniret, who had always denied being linked to Estelle's disappearance, delivers to an examining magistrate what a lawyer from the Mouzin family describes as a “hollow confession”. Excavations are carried out, without result, at one of his ex-wives in Yvelines.
- November 21, 2019
Fourniret's ex-wife, Monique Olivier, contradicts the alibi provided by the serial killer in this case. He is indicted for "kidnapping and forcible confinement followed by death".
- January 24, 2020
Monique Olivier believes before the examining magistrate that her ex-husband "killed" Estelle.
- March 7, 2020
The Paris prosecutor's office reveals that the 77-year-old killer "recognized" the day before "his participation in the facts".
- June 2020
Four days of excavation in two former properties of Fourniret do not allow to find the body of Estelle.
- Aug 21, 2020
We learn that Estelle Mouzin's partial DNA was found on a mattress seized in 2003 in the house of the late sister of Fourniret, in Ville-sur-Lume (Ardennes). The same day, Monique Olivier declares to the courts that her ex-husband kidnapped the little girl to sequester her there then raped and strangled her. She is indicted for complicity.
- August 25, 2020
Michel Fourniret is heard by the judge. “Now we know who it is. He has to say where Estelle is, that's the only important thing, ”says the girl's father.
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