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Trial of Monique Ollivier: the secrets of Michel Fourniret’s widow
Trial of Monique Ollivier: the secrets of Michel Fourniret’s widow – (France 2)
The trial of Monique Olivier, the ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, will open on Tuesday November 27. She will be alone in the dock and will appear for three cases.
Since her ex-husband, serial killer Michel Fourniret, suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, investigations focused on Monique Olivier. For many, she is the keeper of her secrets. Her ex-husband having died in 2021, she will be alone in the box from Tuesday November 27. Accused of complicity in three murders, Monique Ollivier will be on trial for three weeks. Michel Fourniret was arrested for the first time in Belgium in 2003 after the botched kidnapping of a little girl. The man is not very talkative towards the Belgian authorities. His wife is then questioned.
She faces life imprisonment
“She plays the wife who falls from a height, who doesn’t understand, who takes care of her son, she is lost“, explains Philippe Morandini, first president of the Court of Appeal of Mons (Belgium). In 2008, the couple was sentenced to life imprisonment for several murders. Monique Olivier participated in five of them. She notably coaxed certain young people girls to allow their kidnapping. She was once described as a gifted woman. Her lawyer relied on new psychological expertise to challenge this portrait. Aged 75, she once again faces the maximum sentence.
