2023-12-18 13:45:19
After three weeks of debates at the Hauts-de-Seine Assize Court in Nanterre, the attorneys general requested this Monday a life sentence against Monique Olivier, tried for complicity in three crimes of her ex -husband, the rapist and killer Michel Fourniret. “In view of the exceptional seriousness of the acts committed, the necessary protection of society”, the two attorneys general requested that a security period of 22 years be associated with this sentence.
Since the death in prison of the “Ogre of the Ardennes”, his former partner has been left alone to answer for the couple’s crimes. In this trial which opened on Tuesday November 28, she appears for her role in the kidnappings and murders of Marie-Angèle Domèce, Joanna Parrish and Estelle Mouzin.
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The public prosecutor requested for more than two hours, recalling the “vicissitudes” of the three judicial investigations opened for each of the crimes tried. Contrary to the image of victim presented by Monique Olivier throughout her trial, the prosecution recalled the choices made by Fourniret’s ex-wife: putting Marie-Angèle Domèce and Joanna Parrish in confidence knowing that they were going straight to death, to remain silent for 16 years about Estelle Mouzin.
“The most convicted in French judicial history”
“Madame Olivier, you are not an accomplice at that moment, you are the author of the choice to remain silent,” criticized the general advocate. She also asserted that “we will not forget the faces” of the victims, in reference to the confusions between the names of the young girls and the memory lapses alleged by Monique Olivier day after day since the opening of her trial on the 28th. november.
“It is the maximum sentence that was requested because the crimes committed justify it, for me the prosecution’s requisitions are in line with what the families of victims that I represent were asking for,” commented Me Seban, lawyer for the families. Parrish and Mouzin, during a suspension of the hearing after the requisitions of the public prosecutor.
“We can say that this will be the most convicted woman in French legal history,” concluded the lawyer who reminded him: “What my clients want is that she does not get out.” The verdict is scheduled for Tuesday.
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