• Michel Fourniret was hospitalized urgently on April 28 at the interregional secure hospital unit of Pitié Salpêtrière, we learned on Monday.

    According to Le Parisien, his prognosis has been initiated and an end-of-life protocol has been put in place.

  • Aged 79, “Ogre des Ardennes” has suffered from cardiac, respiratory and neurological disorders for several years.

    He had also made a faint in his cell in the prison of Fresnes (Val-de-Marne), in November 2020.

  • The deterioration of her state of health comes as a new campaign of excavations in the Ardennes in order to find the corpse of Estelle Mouzin ended in failure.

He hadn't spoken at all for several months. And everyone understood that his condition would not improve any more ... The serial killer Michel Fourniret was hospitalized in emergency, April 28, at the hospital of La Pitié Salpêtrière (Paris 13th), learned

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this Monday , confirming information from the

Parisian

. Now 79 years old, the “Ogre des Ardennes” has been placed in a coma due to heart, respiratory and neurological problems. According to

Le Parisien

, his vital prognosis is engaged and is not reversible. As a result, an end-of-life protocol would have been initiated. The Ministry of Justice refused to provide information on his state of health, which is covered by medical confidentiality. 

Sentenced to life imprisonment for eight murders, Michel Fourniret had already been hospitalized since November 2020, after a discomfort in his cell in Fresnes prison (Val-de-Marne).

This is the reason why he did not participate in the last excavations in the Ardennes, intended to find the body of little Estelle Mouzin, whom he admitted to having kidnapped in January 2003, in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne). .

The announcement of the deterioration of her state of health comes at a time when a fifth search campaign for the girl's corpse ended in failure at the end of April.

"He is not affected by an illness from which we are recovering ..."

In recent years, the serial killer had been indicted for the murder of several young girls at the instigation of the oldest Parisian examining magistrate, Sabine Khéris. Michel Fourniret was to be judged soon for the disappearance of Joanna Parrish, Marie-Angèle Domèce, Lydie Logé and of course Estelle Mouzin. At the same time, DNA comparisons are still underway to verify if it has not claimed more victims than we think. “But in truth, we all understood that he was no longer able to appear, confided not long ago, one of his relatives at

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. He is not affected by an illness from which we are recovering ... "

At the end of 2018, while he was on trial in Versailles (Yvelines) for the murder of Farida Hammiche, the serial killer had also shown signs of weakness. As the verdict approached, he appeared disoriented in the defendants' box, asking his lawyer when he could "go home" while the Assize Court was about to sentence him to a new sentence. in perpetuity ... A few months earlier, an expert had diagnosed a "neurological disorder" which has since continued to worsen. And which little by little was accompanied by heart and respiratory problems. "Obviously, the period of March 2020 when he was confined in his cell because of the coronavirus did not help him ...", indicates a source close to the file.

His last outing therefore dates back to October 2020 when he tried to participate in a reconstruction of the kidnapping of Estelle Mouzin in the streets of Guermantes.

But, while his ex-wife Monique Olivier had appeared rather alert, had shown him real signs of old age.

The shaggy hair, the bushy beard, the dirty pants, he "looked almost like a tramp suffering from water retention and incontinence", according to an expert who participated in the legal operations.

"He was completely strawberry," confirms another.

Estelle Mouzin's father assigns the state

The state of health of Michel Fourniret does not however call into question the trial which could take place to clarify the circumstances of the death of Estelle Mouzin, nearly twenty years after the facts. “This trial will be held without him and with Monique Olivier, alone, in the box of the accused, imagined already several weeks ago Corinne Herrmann, lawyer of Eric Mouzin, the father of the girl. We know the facts. We have the statements he gave to the judge. It's enough… "

Above all, this should bring a little water to the mill of Eric Mouzin, who decided to assign the French state in civil liability because of the dysfunctions of justice in the investigation into the disappearance of his daughter.

According to our information, another procedure is also underway before the European Court of Human Rights.

And each file does not fail to remind that Michel Fourniret was one of the first suspects questioned in this case.

Before being exonerated for fifteen years.

A period during which he could then fully answer for his actions.

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