The custody of serial killer Michel Fourniret and his ex-wife Monique Olivier, suspected of being involved in the disappearance of a young woman in 1993 in the Orne, are still in progress, have we learned Thursday at the floor of Caen.
"The custody is still in progress," said AFP Carole Etienne, prosecutor of the Republic of Caen. Wednesday evening the prosecutor of Argentan Hugues de Phily relinquished the file for the benefit of the prosecutor's office in Caen, where is the criminal branch.
DNA reconciliations established
After their custody, started Tuesday afternoon at the Central Office for the repression of violence against persons (OCRVP) in Nanterre, Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier will return to their cells, said Ms. Etienne. Judicial information will be open by Thursday evening or Friday morning but "there will be no immediate withdrawal," she added. The investigation concerns the disappearance of Lydie Logé, 29 years old, in Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet (Orne), on December 18, 1993.
Last May, Mr. de Phily confirmed to AFP the reopening of this investigation in 2018 due to established comparisons "between the DNA traces of organic compounds found in the truck of Michel Fourniret and the DNA of the family of the missing person ".
Provide and already sentenced to life for the murder of 7 young women and girls
Michel Fourniret was sentenced in 2008 by the Assize Court of the Ardennes to the irreducible life for the murder of seven young women or girls between 1987 and 2001, preceded by rape or attempted rape, and three assaults. Monique Olivier was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 28-year sentence, for complicity in four of the murders and rape in a meeting of a girl.
In 2018 Michel Fourniret was again sentenced to life, by the Yvelines Assize Court, for the assassination in 1988 of Farida Hammiche, whose body was never found. His ex-wife Monique Olivier was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. Last September Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier, who divorced in 2010, participated in the Yonne to a re-enactment in the investigation of two murders recently recognized by the serial killer: those of Joanna Parrish and Marie-Angèle Domece committed between 1988 and 1990.