the lawyer of the father of the missing woman “hopes that she recognizes Cécile”

Monique Olivier, the former partner of Michel Fourniret, must soon be heard by the courts on the Cécile Vallin affair, who disappeared in 1997 in Savoie.

“I hope she recognizes Cécile”says Friday January 26 on franceinfo Caty Richard, the lawyer for the father and sister of Cécile Vallin, while Monique Olivier must be heard soon in the context of the Cécile Vallin affair, who disappeared on June 8, 1997 in Savoie.

Michel Fourniret’s trail gains substance after a journalist, Laurent Valdiguié, alerts the lawyer during the trial of his ex-wife, Monique Olivier. He tells him that a case of disappearance was discussed in 1997 during the trial hearing. “There, I admit that I fell from the tenth floor”reacts the lawyer. “I remember that we talked about a babysitter in 1992 and that we always said that 1997 was during Michel Fourniret’s famous white period.”

“How can we speak of a blank period when in the reports, Monique Olivier is very precise, and mentions a young girl between 16 and 18 years old that Michel Fourniret brings home? He asks her to leave with their son Sélim so that Sélim does not see this young girl, details Caty Richard. When we take this report and cross-check it with the elements she gives about the period, we know that it is 1997 for several reasons. Then she’ll say it’s at the end of the school year, so potentially June. And then we have what came out at the hearing, what Monique Olivier’s counsel provided to the debate: a report in which Michel Fourniret files a complaint for abandonment of the marital roof on June 11, 1997, in which he mentions ‘an argument that occurred on the 9th’, relates Caty Richard.

“A glimmer of light in this matter”

She says she sees “a glimmer of light in this matter” and evokes “a relief which is shared with anger, because it had always been in the Fourniret file. In Cécile’s file, the trail was opened and, in quotation marks, not closed. We could speak of a trail closed if he had was exonerated. He was never exonerated, but at that time we found nothing that implicated him”she says.

According to her, “if it had only leaked once, that in the Fourniret file there is mention somewhere of a young girl in 1997, and even in June 1997, it could have changed everything and from 2006, in moment when we were wondering about Fourniret”.

“I think I understood that from Monique Olivier we can only expect what she wants to say at the time she wants to say it, so I hope that she will have more things to teach us about Cécile, says the lawyer, according to whom Her family has missed her for over 25 years now.”

In 1997, “we didn’t know what Michel Fourniret was doing”

His father, Jonathan Oliver, confided to Franceinfo that “almost immediately after her disappearance, I said to myself that there must have been a man and a car. In 1997, when Cécile disappeared, we did not know what Michel Fourniret was doing. Until we know for what reason Cécile disappeared, for me he will always be a potential culprit”.

Caty Richard finally points out “sealing issues between procedures” : “For 20 years we have been searching, for 20 years investigating judges have been searching one after the other, following everything. All the leads have been followed, whereas since 2004-2005 there were elements in the Fourniret file. That really poses a problem question on communication”, she regrets.