Michel Fourniret will be heard Tuesday and Wednesday by the judge in charge of the investigation into the disappearance in 2003 of Estelle Mouzin, a few days after his ex-wife accused him of having killed the girl in the Ardennes, has t - we learned on Monday from a source close to the case, confirming information from BFM TV.
Heard by Judge Sabine Kheris last week, Monique Olivier, according to her lawyer Richard Delgenes, accused her ex-husband of having kidnapped, raped and strangled Estelle Mouzin, 9, in Ville-sur-Lumes (Ardennes) in 2003 , in the house of his sister who died a few months earlier.
"I recognize there a being who is no longer there by my fault"
These new statements, which supplement the first confessions made in January before the magistrate by this 71-year-old woman, add to the recent identification of the girl's partial DNA, mixed with other traces, on a seized mattress. in 2003 in this house near Charleville-Mézières, and revived the hope of finding her body.
At 78, serial killer Michel Fourniret, whose convoluted statements and memory problems complicate the task of investigators, had ended up confessing in March his responsibility in this affair: "I recognize there a being who is no longer there my fault, ”he told the judge. He had also considered "relevant" the fact that the body of the girl could be in one of his former properties in the Ardennes.
At the end of June, around fifty gendarmes and experts had unsuccessfully searched the house in Ville-sur-Lumes. A receipt found at Fourniret and printed in a nearby supermarket on January 11, 2003 - two days after the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne), 200 km away - had guided the investigators to to this suburban neighborhood. Despite exceptional human and technical resources, the excavations had given nothing.
Michel Fourniret was found guilty of the murders of seven young women
Investigators then went to the Château du Sautou, his former property about ten kilometers away, where two of his victims were found in 2004, without further success.
Michel Fourniret was convicted in 2008 of the murders of seven young women or adolescent girls between 1987 and 2001 and sentenced to irreducible life, before being convicted 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 before Judge Sabine Khéris.
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