Ville-sur-Lumes (Ardennes), October 26, 2020. Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier were taken to this house in rue des Jardins where Estelle Mouzin was allegedly killed in January 2003. -

V. VANTIGHEM

  • Almost 18 years after the events, Michel Fourniret finally recognized his participation in the disappearance and death of Estelle Mouzin.

  • Now in charge of the investigation, Judge Sabine Khéris is stepping up operations to try to find the girl's body.

    But sick and aging, Michel Fourniret is not very cooperative.

  • This Monday, the serial killer and his ex-wife, Monique Olivier, were taken to Ville-sur-Lumes (Ardennes) where the girl was allegedly killed.

    As well as in a cemetery nearby.

In the Ardennes,

In his absolute perversity, Michel Fourniret had obviously dared.

"There is something to dig ...", he said in the office of judge Sabine Khéris, March 14, 2019, about the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin.

The serial killer has since admitted having kidnapped the 9-year-old girl.

But, voluntarily or not, he struggles to give clues to find his body and to discover, finally, what happened almost 18 years ago.

After a first unsuccessful attempt in June, the magistrate therefore planned a new week of research on the Ardennes lands of "the ogre".

In his company and that of his ex-wife, Monique Olivier.

On Monday, the former evil couple was taken to Ville-sur-Lumes, in the former white house of Michel Fourniret's sister where he would have, according to Monique Olivier, raped and strangled the schoolgirl of Guermantes (Seine-et- Marl).

On the spot, the gendarmes made take off a drone.

The red berets of the 17th parachute engineer regiment, specialized in excavations, were deployed in the surrounding fields.

But the device was quickly lifted.

And the convoy of twenty-one vehicles taking the killer left without anyone looking around the swing and the trampoline installed in the garden of this house today inhabited by a family inevitably upset by the events.

#Fourniret #Mouzin:


The convoy bringing Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier has just arrived rue des Jardins, in Ville sur Lumes.

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- Vincent Vantighem (@vvantighem) October 26, 2020

The cemetery of Montcy-Saint-Pierre raises questions

Backhoe loader available, ground penetrating radar capable of probing the ground up to 1.50 m deep… The device is impressive.

“But it was designed with great flexibility that allows it to adapt to the situation in real time,” said a source close to the investigation.

If the judge has ticked a full week in her diary, she has, in fact, not defined a particular itinerary and intends to be carried away by any indications that Michel Fourniret, himself, could deliver during this peregrination. .

Is this why the device was quickly repackaged in Ville-sur-Lumes?

Impossible to know.

But late Monday afternoon, investigators eventually set up their vans six kilometers further west.

To the cemetery of Montcy-Saint-Pierre, exactly.

There, in the steep alleys overlooking a meadow occupied by cows, the gendarmes were seen sweeping the ground with their torches as evening fell.

A long metal probe pierced the earth, but no actual excavation was undertaken.

The wheelchair was not used

No information has filtered out on the reasons which pushed the investigators to this place.

But Michel Fourniret necessarily knows the sector.

In 1989, he kidnapped and killed Jeanne-Marie Desramault, a 21-year-old girl who was studying just two kilometers away at the Lycée Sévigné.

Manipulator, Michel Fourniret could voluntarily mix up the affairs in order to better lose the investigators.

Unless it is an effect of the neurological disorders from which he is affected.

Locked in, hunched over, shaggy hair, "he's getting old a lot," says a close source.

Monday, for the first time, investigators had brought a wheelchair to make things easier.

But he didn't use it.

And we saw him on several occasions interacting directly with certain gendarmes and Judge Khéris.

She knows time is running out to get the last secrets of the now 78-year-old ogre.

A new day of excavations is scheduled for Tuesday.

Justice

In the footsteps of Michel Fourniret's criminal past in Guermantes

Justice

Sabine Khéris, the judge who makes Michel Fourniret talk

  • Disappearance

  • Rape

  • Murder

  • Estelle Mouzin

  • Child

  • Michel Fourniret

  • Justice