His family not wishing to recover his body, the serial killer Michel Fourniret, who died at the age of 79 on May 10, was buried by the City of Paris in a mass grave in the cemetery of Thiais, in Val-de-Marne, May 19, announced

the Parisian

, this Thursday.

The ex-wives of the serial killer, as well as his children, did not wish to recover the body of Michel Fourniret.

“The only solution is the mass grave.

No way he rests near us.

We do not want to have anything to do with this story, ”explained Michel Fourniret's daughter and one of her former companions to our colleagues at Le 

Parisien

.

Buried in the “indigent square”

According to the law, to be buried in a commune, one must either have lived there, be deceased there, or have a member of his family with a burial there.

“Michel Fourniret having died in the capital and nobody wanting to recover his body, the Parisian municipality - and therefore the taxpayer - was forced to take care of the burial of the serial killer”, explains

Le Parisien

.

It is therefore the city of Paris, where the "Ogre des Ardennes" died, which had to organize and take charge of the funeral of Michel Fourniret, buried in the "square of the indigent", a part of the cemetery intended for the bodies. unclaimed.

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