As part of the investigation into the disappearance of the small Estelle Mouzin, the excavations that had resumed earlier this week at the ex-wife of the killer, Michel Fourniret, are "stopped for the moment," the prosecutor said. Meaux.
Excavations that had resumed Monday with an ex-wife of serial killer Michel Fourniret, fifteen years after the unexplained disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, are "stopped for now" , we learned this Friday at the prosecutor's office. Meaux.
"The research, stopped for now, will continue on other parts later," said the prosecutor Meaux, Dominique Laurens, without further details.
Since Monday, specialized soldiers participated in research at the second wife of Michel Fourniret, in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines. The home of this former close relative to the serial killer, sentenced twice in perpetuity for the murders of eight young women, had already been searched in September, with no result.
"Excavations of importance"
In September, "we could not check everything and we did not have this specialized unit at our side that allows us to do more research," explained Dominique Laurens earlier this week.
"These are important excavations, the last time it was only locating," said Didier Seban, one of the lawyers of Estelle Mouzin's father.
The nine-year-old girl had disappeared one evening in January 2003, when she was returning from school in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne). His body was never found and the many tracks envisaged by the investigators gave nothing.
The hypothesis of the involvement of the "ogre des Ardennes" , several times explored without success, was once again relaunched in February.
Michel Fourniret, who had just confessed to having killed two young women who had disappeared in the 1990s in the Yonne, Joanna Parrish and Marie-Angèle Domece, had also delivered a "confession" about his involvement in the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin. , according to the lawyers of Estelle Mouzin's father.