Death of Estelle Mouzin: the ex-wife of Fourniret questioned at length in the Ardennes (Archives) – FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP
The ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, Monique Olivier, was auditioned Thursday until late in the evening in Charleville-Mézières as part of a new search operation for the body of Estelle Mouzin, which the serial killer admitted to having killed, said the lawyer for the girl’s father.
Between Monday and Wednesday, the examining magistrate Sabine Kheris and the investigators carried out excavations in a marshy area, located in the town of Issancourt, bordering Ville-sur-Lumes (Ardennes), a place that Monique Olivier “has could determine ”, during previous interrogations according to his lawyer.
Monique Olivier at the site of the excavations on Wednesday
It was in Ville-sur-Lumes that according to Monique Olivier, her ex-husband had, in a house belonging to her sister, kidnapped, raped and killed Estelle Mouzin, who disappeared at 9 years old on January 9, 2003 when she was returning from school in Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne).
On Wednesday, the killer’s ex-wife was taken from her prison and taken to the site of the searches. On Thursday, his interrogation, which began at the beginning of the afternoon in the premises of the gendarmerie in Charleville-Mézières, still continued around 9:30 p.m.
“Then be able to go and find Estelle’s body”
“Monique Olivier explains herself, she gives details, we are moving step by step, to understand what happened after the kidnapping of Estelle, and therefore we hope that these details will be sufficient to then be able to go and look for the body. d’Estelle ”, declared a little after 8 pm Me Didier Seban, the lawyer of the father of the victim.
“It is all a work of re-situating, of memory (…) We have today, I think we can say it, the truth of Monique Olivier on what happened to Estelle”, he said. he advanced.
“A lot of elements could be gathered (…) on what happened on that day, the credit card movements, the telephony, which make it possible to put Monique Olivier in front of her contradictions”, continued the lawyer.
Monique Olivier “takes an infinite amount of time to say things”
He expressed the hope “that this enormous work of the investigators, of the examining magistrate, these requests reiterated for more than fifteen years will allow us to know both this terrible truth and especially to have the necessary indications” to find the child’s body.
Monique Olivier “takes an infinite time to say things, the Belgian investigators had questioned her several dozen times before she could give the elements”, he observed.
“Further excavations will take place, until we can find Estelle. Now when, at what time, it depends on the degree of precision of the indications, ”added the lawyer. Several excavation operations have already been carried out in the region in recent months, without results.