Estelle Mouzin was kidnapped at the age of 9 by Michel Fourniret on January 9, 2003 in this commune of Seine-et-Marne. His father, Eric, is worried about the departure of the investigating judge in charge of the case since 2019, for “career organization” reasons.
This Saturday, January 8, a traditional silent march in homage to Estelle Mouzin will take place in Guermantes, from 3.45 p.m., starting from the town’s Place du Temps Lost. A press conference is scheduled after this silent march.
A march that takes place in a context of great concern for the father of Estelle Mouzin. The latter wrote a letter addressed to the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti on Wednesday January 5. He is indeed moved by the departure, on December 31, and “without any prior information”, of the investigating judge in charge of the case since 2019, for reasons “career organization”.
This departure, according to Éric Mouzin, “portends a new mess”. According to information from franceinfo, the new magistrate who took over the case is awaiting the creation of the “coldcase” pole (unresolved cases, editor’s note), provided for by the law for confidence in the judicial institution promulgated on December 23 last.
Sabine Khéris was the doyenne of the examining magistrates of the judicial tribunal of Paris. A position she had held since January 2012. She could no longer hold this position, affected by the ten-year limit in the same position. It was she who relaunched the Estelle Mouzin case by taking over the case in 2019. In March 2020, the serial killer Michel Fourniret had ended up confessing to being responsible for the death of the little girl.
According to Éric Mouzin, the arrival of a new magistrate to follow this long and tedious file weighs the “risk of a disastrous investigation”, while Sabine Khéris had “knew how to establish a link with the indicted person, Monique Olivier”, ex-companion of serial killer Michel Fourniret, who died last May.
Eric Mouzin finally fears “a loss of information in the processing of ongoing investigations”, as well as the “dismantling of a competent and efficient team”.
The father of Estelle Mouzin expects Eric Dupond-Moretti that the creation of the “coldcase” pole quickly comes into force. “It seems to me useless to insist on the urgency to act”, he ends in his letter to the Keeper of the Seals.
At the beginning of December, Monique Olivier, who is now the only one able to help solve the puzzles left by her ex-husband, who died in May at the age of 79, was once again heard.
Last April, Monique Olivier finally confessed to having accompanied her ex-husband on January 11, 2003 in a wood of the Ardennes so that he bury the body.
Since June 2020, Ms. Khéris has organized eight search campaigns there to try, sometimes in the presence of the ex-wife of the serial killer, to find the body of the girl, but without success.
While two investigations, from 1994 to 1998 and then from 2004 to 2009, had resulted in dismissals, the investigations were relaunched in 2018 after connections established between the DNA traces from organic compounds found in Michel Fourniret’s van and the DNA of Lydie Logé’s mother.