Monique Olivier, former wife of Michel Fourniret, will be tried at the assizes for complicity in kidnapping

The investigating judge of the “cold cases” center of Nanterre requested, Friday, June 23, the dismissal of Monique Olivier, ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, before the Assize Court of Hauts-de-Seine for complicity in the kidnapping of Estelle Mouzin in 2003, as well as in the kidnapping and murder of Marie-Angèle Domèce in 1988 and Joanna Parrish in 1990. Since the death of the serial killer in 2021, Monique Olivier is the only person implicated in these three cases. His trial, the date of which has not yet been set, will be the first of the pole of the Nanterre judicial court dedicated to unsolved cases.

Already condemned several times

Monique Olivier, 74, has already been sentenced to life imprisonment for being an accomplice to four murders and gang rape committed by Michel Fourniret. Then she was sentenced to 20 years in prison for complicity in a fifth murder, heinous this time, also committed by her former husband.

She had settled in 1987 with Michel Fourniret when he was released from prison. They had a son together before divorcing in 2010. The killer had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of seven young women or teenage girls between 1987 and 2001. Indicted in the Mouzin, Parrish and Domèce files, he died on May 10, 2021 at the Parisian Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital.