Monique Olivier, the ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, sent back to the assizes in three cases

2023-06-23 23:48:30

This will be the first trial of the pole of the Nanterre judicial court devoted to unsolved cases. His examining magistrate requested, Friday June 23, the dismissal of Monique Olivier, former wife of serial killer 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, the Nanterre prosecution told AFP.

Since the death of Michel Fourniret, in 2021, Monique Olivier is the only person implicated in these three files. The date has not yet been decided. She is indicted in two judicial inquiries: one for complicity in kidnapping and kidnapping followed by the death of Estelle Mouzin, the other for complicity in kidnapping and kidnapping, on the one hand, and murder, preceded , followed or accompanied by rape on the other hand on Joanna Parrish and Marie-Angèle Domèce. These two cases will be tried at the same time, said the prosecution.

“It is not a surprise, because the facts are recognized”said Me Richard Delgenes, the lawyer for Monique Olivier, specifying that he did not intend to appeal the indictment order.

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Already sentenced to life imprisonment

Monique Olivier, 74, has already been sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in four murders and gang rape committed by Michel Fourniret. Then she was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for complicity in a fifth murder, heinous this time, also committed by the killer.

Michel Fourniret had for his part been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of seven young women or adolescent girls between 1987 and 2001. Indicted in particular in the Mouzin, Parrish and Domèce files, he died on May 10, 2021 in hospital Parisian Pitié-Salpêtrière. Before her death, Monique Olivier had begun to deliver information to justice.

She had given investigators a first list of victims in June 2004, then contradicted the serial killer’s alibi on the day of Estelle Mouzin’s disappearance, in November 2019. A few months later, Michel Fourniret confessed to judge Sabine Kheris his responsibility.

Then, in April 2021, Monique Olivier recognized for the first time her role in the kidnapping of Estelle, specifying that she had accompanied Michel Fourniret near the wood of Issancourt-et-Rumel, in the Ardennes, to bury the body of the girl there. . The bodies of Estelle Mouzin and Marie-Angèle Domèce have never been found, despite several excavation campaigns.

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The World with AFP