Again unsuccessful searches and unanswered questions?

A third day of excavations takes place Wednesday in Issancourt-et-Rumel (Ardennes) to try to find the body of Estelle Mouzin, alleged victim of Michel Fourniret in 2003, in the presence of the ex-wife of the serial killer who has "Secrets" that she "does not want to deliver," regretted Didier Seban, family lawyer.

Monique Olivier "speaks but refuses to give new details, details, despite everything we have the impression that she remains a manipulator", told the press Didier Seban, lawyer for the family of Estelle Mouzin.

"She is the co-author with Michel Fourniret of the crimes that we know and therefore, while promising that she does everything, that she wants to help us, he has secrets that she does not want to reveal".

"She fears questions about her participation"

She "contributes to the investigation but I think there are elements that she wants to keep to herself," he continued.

“I don't think she wants to say everything because she (…) fears questions about her participation, she fears questions about other crimes (…).

As long as it is a question of implicating Michel Fourniret, there are no problems, as soon as his participation is in question, it is much more difficult ”, he again said.

Monique Olivier must "give us the information that she has not given us so far (...) She says things, but she does not follow through on what is expected of her, explanations of the process. exact ".

This seventh excavation campaign, which began on Monday, has so far been unsuccessful, as on previous occasions.

The research is being carried out on a plot adjoining an area already excavated in June, on a plot of "four or five hectares".

Estelle kidnapped at 9 years old in 2003

On April 1, Monique Olivier had for the first time recognized a role in the sequestration of Estelle, kidnapped at the age of nine, on January 9, 2003 in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne).

She had specified that she had accompanied Michel Fourniret to the edge of the wood of Issancourt-et-Rumel to let him go and bury the girl's body.

According to Me Seban, it is a whole "bundle of reasons which gives us the hope of finding Estelle here".

"We have an indication that Michel Fourniret left with the body and that he came back and that he had previously dug a grave, we have a logic (...) which is the duration of his removal and the time that he was able to put to bury Estelle, we are looking for concrete elements of the file, ”he says.

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