“Michel Fourniret has acknowledged the facts”, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office

The number of victims of the “ogre des Ardennes” has just increased. Michel Fourniret, indicted for the 2003 abduction and murder of Estelle Mouzin in Seine-et-Marne, “Acknowledged his participation in the facts”, said on Saturday March 7 the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirming an information of Point and from Europe 1. The 77-year-old serial killer, who has long denied his involvement in the disappearance of the girl, confessed during three days of interrogations that ended Friday evening in the office of investigating judge Sabine Kheris .

The Paris prosecutor’s office did not wish to provide further details on the nature of the remarks made by Michel Fourniret, whose lawyer, Vincet Nioré, did not respond to our requests. “Our conviction from the start is that this is the trail that we had to search, explains to World the lawyer for Estelle Mouzin’s father, Didier Seban, who asked that the killer be questioned again in his presence. These confessions prove that we are headed in the right direction. But they are not the centerpiece of the file, they confirm the various clues that we had. “

In November, Michel Fourniret was indicted for “abduction and forcible confinement followed by death” in the context of the investigation into the disappearance of the girl, then aged 9 years. He had just been interviewed for this seventeen-year-old criminal file for almost three hours, in office M^me Kheris, who recovered the investigation in July.

Fourniret’s alibi undermined by his former wife

“It is quite possible, even very likely, that I was the author of this disappearance but I do not know what to tell you”he said then, assuring that nothing was doing “Tilt” in his head when confronted with a photo of the girl. “In the impossibility where I am of saying to you” yes, I am responsible for his disappearance “, in this impossibility, I urge you to consider me as guilty”, he added, while ensuring to be “A chess player”, enjoying the confrontation with his judge.

Already twice sentenced to life, in 2008 then in 2018, for the murders of eight young women or adolescent girls, preceded by rape or attempted rape, committed between 1987 and 2001, the serial killer had so far always denied his involvement in the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, which occurred on January 9 2003 in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne). He claimed to be at his home in Sart-Custinne, Belgium that day. As an alibi, Michel Fourniret invoked a telephone call made to his son on the evening of the events for his birthday. Her son had not picked up at the time, but the call was certified by telephone records.

This alibi was weakened by the statements of his ex-wife Monique Olivier, who told the judge, on November 21, having made that phone call herself, at the request of her husband. “This means that Michel Fourniret was not at Sart-Custinne on the day of the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin. He was elsewhere “, assured Monique Olivier’s lawyer, Richard Delgenes. Was the serial killer in Guermantes, a village 250 km from his Belgian home, at the time? “We know that at the time he was leaving for several days. “ But “To locate and date his absences from January 2003 is a bit complicated today”, pointed out M^e Delgenes.

“Hollow confessions”

Estelle Mouzin disappeared on her way home from school on the evening of January 9, 2003. Her body was never found and the numerous leads envisaged by the investigators gave nothing. In 2006, the police first became interested in Michel Fourniret. A photo of Estelle Mouzin had indeed been found on her computer and a white van similar to that of the killer had been spotted in Seine-et-Marne at the time.

But the killer had been exonerated in 2007. Six years later, the expertise of thousands of hairs and hairs taken from his car had also not made it possible to find a DNA trace of the little girl. Speculation about his possible involvement was nonetheless revived after a hearing in March 2018, concerning the murders of Marie-Angèle Domece and Joanna Parrish, killed in 1988 and 1990 in the Yonne.

Faced with judge Sabine Kheris, also in charge of this case, Michel Fourniret said according to a source close to the file that the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin was “A subject to dig”, believing they have the “Ass fucked” in that case. Statements considered to be “Hollow confession” by the lawyers of Estelle Mouzin’s father, engaged in a relentless fight to know the truth about the disappearance of his daughter, but that the manipulative personality of Michel Fourniret ended up urging caution.

Eric Mouzin does not wish to speak on the latest development in the business and refuses to be ” the hostage “, according to his lawyer, from Michel Fourniret. After the killer was indicted last November, he explained to the Parisian : “I am not saying that his indictment is harmless, but we cannot yet speak of victory but of judicial stage. It is necessary to provide proof of Fourniret’s guilt and not to be manipulated by this killer and his wife, who managed to challenge the investigators for many years. I don’t want to fall into a trap. “

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