- Estelle Mouzin, 9, disappeared on January 9, 2003 in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne)
- First dismissed in 2007, Michel Fourniret finally acknowledged his involvement in the disappearance of the girl in November 2019.
- This Monday, the investigators will use important means to search one of his old houses in the Ardennes where he is suspected of having buried the body of the girl.
What if it was in the garden street that you had to dig? At number 15, to be exact. The gendarmes of the research section of Dijon (Côte d'Or) will begin this Monday at 2 p.m., excavations in the former home of Michel Fourniret, located in Ville-sur-Lumes (Ardennes) in order to find the body of little Estelle Mouzin.
Excluded in 2007, the “ogre des Ardennes” finally recognized, at the end of 2019, that he had in fact kidnapped the 9-year-old girl, who disappeared on January 9, 2003, when she was returning from school in Guermantes ( Seine et Marne). "I recognize there a being who is no longer there through my fault," he said in a convoluted formula of which he has the secret.
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"I urge you to treat me as guilty ..."
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"The circumstances, the process, are in the dungeons ..."
Michel Fourniret, 78, is today affected by "a cerebral process of a degenerative nature", according to one of the psychologist experts who examined him. Impossible to know if he no longer remembers where he concealed the bodies of some of his victims or if he is manipulating the investigators.
If he recognized the murder of Estelle Mouzin, he has not been able to say more so far. "The circumstances, the continuation, the course, it is in the oblivion", he thus dropped before the judge Sabine Khéris which examines the case. Recognizing, however, that it was not "improbable" that he took the girl to his sister's former home, located in Ville-sur-Lumes, east of Charleville-Mézières.
For four boxes of split peas
If previous excavations in other places have never yielded anything, the investigators this time have good reason to believe that this house could shelter the remains of the little girl. Before belonging to Michel Fourniret, the pavilion was the property of the serial killer's sister, who died in 2002, just a few weeks before the abduction of Estelle Mouzin.
Like Francis Heaulme, "Fourniret is an" itinerant ", indicates a source close to the file. We know it moves a lot. He could therefore have taken Estelle Mouzin from Seine-et-Marne to the Ardennes. Especially since the weather conditions were particular at the time. “There was a cold spell all over France at the time. The ground was frozen, continues our source. It was impossible to dig. The thesis, therefore, is that he kidnapped the girl several days before killing her. "
Based on the analysis of the Anacrim software, the investigators, thanks to a sales receipt found during a search, acquired the conviction that he was able to lock Estelle Mouzin in this house. Dated January 11, 2003 - two days after the kidnapping of Estelle Mouzin - this receipt indicates that Michel Fourniret bought four cans of split peas in a supermarket near Ville-sur-Lumes…
Experts responsible for identifying mass graves
There was therefore sufficient evidence to convince Judge Khéris, who took over the case just a year ago, to organize searches on the spot. And for that, she dispatched the big means. Alongside a team of gendarmes responsible for securing the perimeter, the research section of Dijon (Côte d'Or), to which the investigation is entrusted, has set up a special device to try to pierce the cellar of the house in the interior of which Michel Fourniret admitted having poured a concrete slab.
Their team is made up of specialists who come with a GPR capable of detecting irregularities in the ground up to 1.50 m deep and with a drone equipped with a hyperspectral camera allowing to study the vegetation. In addition to the presence of divers, criminal identification technicians and an archaeologist, they will be supported by soldiers from the specialized operational search of the 17th parachute engineer regiment. Experts capable of identifying mass graves in war zones ...
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