Justice has completed its investigations into the link between Michel Fourniret and three unresolved cases, including the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin

Towards a new trial? The Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) investigating judge responsible for three unresolved cases concerning serial killer Michel Fourniret, including the 2003 kidnapping of little Estelle Mouzin, completed her investigations in early February, said the floor to AFP Monday, February 6.

The other two files concerned are that of the kidnapping of Marie-Angèle Domèce in 1988 and the murder of Joanna Parrish in 1990.

The death of Michel Fourniret in 2021 put an end to the proceedings against him. But the killer’s ex-wife, Monique Olivier, remains implicated in these three cases. Contacted by AFP, his lawyer, Richard Delgenes, did not comment on the end of the investigations.

The hope of a “judicial truth” for families

These three files closed, Monique Olivier can now make her observations, then the prosecution take its requisitions. It will then be up to the examining magistrate Sabine Kheris to decide whether or not to hold a trial.

On April 1, 2021, Monique Olivier had recognized for the first time a role in the kidnapping of Estelle Mouzin, specifying that she had accompanied Michel Fourniret to the edge of the wood of Issancourt-et-Rumel so that he buried the body of the girl. Since June 2020, around ten excavation campaigns have been organized in the Ardennes, sometimes in the presence of the killer and/or his ex-wife, in an attempt to find the girl’s body. Without success.

Monique Olivier has already been sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in four murders and gang rape committed by Michel Fourniret, then to twenty years in prison for a fifth murder.

“Forensic truth is important to the families of victims. They have fought so hard to obtain it”reacted to AFP Didier Seban, the lawyer for the Domèce, Parrish and Mouzin families. “There will naturally be a before and after trial, even if the absence of Michel Fourniret at this trial will highlight the faults of our judicial system”.