"We now know what happened to Estelle Mouzin and who killed her", said Friday Me Richard Delgenes, lawyer Monique Olivier. Questioned by the judge in charge of this case, the ex-wife of serial killer Michel Fourniret, aged 71, said that her former husband had kidnapped, kidnapped and killed the girl, who has been missing since 2003.
>> STORY - Disappearance of Estelle Mouzin: from the first suspicions to Fourniret's confession
Michel Fourniret's ex-wife indicted for complicity
"Monique Olivier declared to the examining magistrate (...) that Michel Fourniret had kidnapped Estelle Mouzin, kidnapped her, took her on January 9, 2003 to Ville-sur-Lumes for kidnapping, and that he had raped and strangled her, "said the lawyer at midday, while his client must still be heard on Friday afternoon.
"Monique Olivier, taking into account the elements of the file and her own statements, went from the status of assisted witness to that of indictment", added her counsel.
A few months after the confession of the "Ogre des Ardennes"
This unsolved disappearance had experienced a decisive development at the end of November 2019 when Monique Olivier ended up contradicting, before the judge, the alibi provided until then by her and her ex-husband for the day of the kidnapping of the girl in leaving school. This confession had led a few days later to the indictment of Michel Fourniret for "kidnapping and sequestration followed by death".
Thirteen years after the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, in 2003 in Guermantes, Michel Fourniret, 78, then admitted having "taken his life" before the magistrate in March, without giving details to the investigators. The excavations, carried out at the end of June for four days in a house that belonged to his sister in Ville-sur-Lumes, as well as in his former castle of Sautou, however, did not allow to find the corpse.
Convicted of the murders of seven young women and teenage girls
Michel Fourniret was also found guilty in 2008 of the murders of seven young women or teenage girls between 1987 and 2001 and sentenced to irreducible life, before being sentenced again in 2018 for a heinous murder. He is also indicted for the disappearances and death of Marie-Angèle Domece and Joanna Parrish, whom he confessed to Judge Sabine Khéris.