Estelle Mouzin, aged 9, was kidnapped in 2003 in Guermantes in Seine-et-Marne. Monique Olivier, ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, admitted having participated in the kidnapping of the young girl in the Ardennes.
The investigating judge of the “cold cases” center of Nanterre asked Friday for the dismissal of Monique Olivier, ex-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 prosecutor’s office told AFP.
Since the death of Michel Fourniret in 2021, Monique Olivier is the only person implicated in these three files. His trial, the date of which has not yet been set, will be the first of the pole of the Nanterre judicial court dedicated to unsolved cases.
The trial has been requested for a long time by the lawyer for the victim’s families, Auxerre Didier Seban.
“We are almost 35 years old [d’attente] for the first of these cases. It’s so much time waiting for the families, so much time fighting to obtain a judicial truth. We are happy about it, but also disappointed that Michel Fourniret cannot be held accountable since only Monique Olivier will be on the dock.”he had indicated to France Bleu last May when the prosecution had requested the holding of such a trial.
Didier Seban also deplores the fact that some of the relatives of each of the families of the victims have died. “before knowing the truth”.
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 20 years in prison for complicity in a fifth murder, heinous this time, also committed by the killer.
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 Kheris his responsibility .
Then, in April 2021, Monique Olivier recognized for the first time a role in the kidnapping of Estelle, specifying that she had accompanied Michel Fourniret near the wood of Issancourt-et-Rumel to bury the body of the girl.
She then declared in August 2020 that her ex-husband had kidnapped, raped and killed the girl in Ville-sur-Lume (Ardennes). Estelle Mouzin’s partial DNA was found on a mattress seized in 2003 from this house.
There remains the enigma of the bodies in two of these three files.
Since June 2020, a dozen excavation campaigns have been organized in the Ardennes to find that of Estelle Mouzin. Another campaign also took place at the end of January, in Yonne, for that of Marie-Angèle Domèce. No result.
This trial would be the first of the “cold cases” pole dedicated to unsolved cases. “It is a success”reacted Didier Seban for whom “this pole has proven itself”.
And to salute the action of Sabine Kheris, in charge of the Nanterre pole: “She was the one who made the Fourniret couple confess. She was the one who put these crimes into perspective (…) It took the battle of the families for a judge to finally take it all in stride. It is therefore first and foremost the journey of an exceptional magistrate”.
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