A march is organized in Guermantes in Seine et Marne on Saturday afternoon, 18 years after the kidnapping of Estelle Mouzin.

The circumstances are special since the serial killer Michel Fourniret admitted the facts last March.

The father of the girl, Eric Mouzin, testifies at the microphone of Europe 1. 

TESTIMONY

In 2003, the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin had moved the whole country.

Track of the 9-year-old girl was lost as she returned from school.

Eighteen years after his disappearance in Guermantes, in Seine et Marne, his father Eric Mouzin organizes Saturday afternoon, like every year, a white march in his memory.

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"After all these years of crossing the desert"

But the circumstances are special this year because the serial killer Michel Fourniret, now 71 years old, admitted last March to having killed Estelle.

"The year 2020 has been a bit special since we now have the name of the person who kidnapped and murdered Estelle. After all these years of crossing the judicial desert, this is something extremely positive. But it is missing. some details ", confides Eric Mouzin, the father of the victim at the microphone of Europe 1. Monique Olivier, the ex-wife of" the Ogre of the Ardennes ", had indicated last August that Michel Fourniret had kidnapped, raped and killed the girl.

But his body cannot be found.

Last June, excavations were carried out in several properties of the Ogre des Ardennes, in the castle of Sautou, where the serial killer lived with his wife, but also in a house in Ville-sur-Lumes, which belonged to to his sister.

Analyzes have identified a partial trace of Estelle Mouzin's DNA on a mattress seized from the house in Ville-sur-Lumes, but her body has not been found.

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"I don't want to make people cry in the cottages"

Justice should close its investigation within a few months.

"The difficulty is that we will soon end up talking more about the Fourniret affair than about the kidnapping of Estelle. But me, what interests me is Estelle", continued Eric Mouzin. .

"I am not asking for additional searches or specific investigations. I have complete confidence in Judge Sabine Kheris […] I thank the investigators after years of totally ineffective justice," he added.

"I don't want to make people cry in the cottages, but me, what I imagine, is Estelle's terror throughout the journey between Guermantes and the Ardennes, at the back of this guy's van. the traffic conditions, it lasted at least three hours. I imagine the anguish, the terror and the horror of this situation ", continued Eric Mouzin.

"Turn the page on part of the story"

"I think I could turn the page on part of the story, when I find Estelle's body. The trial of Monique Olivier and Michel Fourniret, today, I am unable to know what It could help me and I did not think about it. I am a little pragmatic, but all in good time, "he concludes at the microphone of Europe 1.

The white march will start from Guermantes at 3 p.m.