Disappearance of Lydie Logé: Michel Fourniret indicted (Archives) -

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The young woman, aged 29, had vanished just after buying a Christmas tree on December 18, 1993 in Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet (Orne).

This Tuesday, the serial killer Michel Fourniret was indicted for "kidnapping and sequestration followed by death" in the investigation into the disappearance of Lydie Logé, said a judicial source, confirming information from the

Parisian

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The investigations into the disappearance of the young woman, whose body has never been found, had been disoriented in Paris in June, to be attached to the investigation file led by the examining magistrate Sabine Kheris targeting the septuagenarian, who recently confessed to the 2003 kidnapping and murder of Estelle Mouzin.

Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier in police custody in 2019

While two investigations, from 1994 to 1998 and then from 2004 to 2009, had resulted in dismissals, the investigations were reopened in 2018 due to links established between the DNA traces from organic compounds found in Michel Fourniret's van. and the DNA of an ancestor of Lydie Logé.

In November 2019, Michel Fourniret and his ex-wife Monique Olivier, who are both serving prison sentences, were taken into police custody in this case.

A few days after these police custody, which made it possible to establish "a possible progression of Michel Fourniret in the Orne that he does not dispute", according to the prosecutor's office of Caen, the investigation was entrusted to a judge of instruction.

According to a source familiar with the matter, Michel Fourniret's son lived in the region at that time.

"This track is perfectly serious"

"After thirty years of waiting, it is important for the family because this track is perfectly serious and the charges are heavy", commented to AFP Me Didier Seban, one of the lawyers of Lydie's family Housed.

"This shows that Michel Fourniret still has a lot of secrets," he added, observing that DNA comparisons should allow "to be able to further elucidate many cases".

Now 78 years old, "the Ogre des Ardennes", sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of seven young women or teenagers between 1987 and 2001, confessed last March his responsibility in the case of Estelle Mouzin, a girl who disappeared at the age of 9 in 2003.

The body of the latter has still not been found, despite several recent searches in the Ardennes.

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