Michel Fourniret

Michel Fourniret
Fourniret c. 1992
Born
Michel Paul Fourniret

(1942-04-04)4 April 1942
Sedan, France
Died10 May 2021(2021-05-10) (aged 79)
Paris, France
Other namesOgre of the Ardennes
SpouseMonique Olivier (1989–2010)[1]
Conviction(s)Murder (8 counts)
Criminal penaltyLife imprisonment without the possibility of parole
Details
Victims8–12+
Span of crimes
1987–2003
CountryFrance, Belgium
Date apprehended
26 June 2003

Michel Paul Fourniret (4 April 1942 – 10 May 2021)[2] was a French serial killer who confessed to killing 12 people in France and Belgium between 1987 and 2003. After he was arrested in June 2003 for the attempted kidnapping of a teenage girl in Ciney,[3] Fourniret confessed in 2004 to killing nine people, eight females and one male,[4] having been informed on by his then-wife,[5] Monique Pierrette Olivier (born 31 October 1948).[6] Fourniret was convicted of seven of these murders on 28 May 2008 and sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, while Olivier was given life with a minimum term of 28 years for complicity.[7]

In February 2018, Fourniret confessed to killing two more women.[8] On 16 November 2018, Fourniret and Olivier were convicted of the murder of Farida Hammiche, the last of the eight women that Fourniret confessed to killing in 2004. Fourniret was given a second life sentence and Olivier was sentenced to a further 20 years of imprisonment.[9] In March 2020, Fourniret confessed to killing Estelle Mouzin, who disappeared from Guermantes in 2003.[10]

  1. ^ à 07h00, Par Le 20 janvier 2011 (20 January 2011). "Les époux Fourniret ont divorcé". leparisien.fr.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Vergès, Jean-Pierre (2008). Les Fourniret, meurtres à quatre mains. Vannes, Brittany, France: L'Archipel. p. 25. ISBN 978-2-84187-967-0.
  3. ^ Evrard, Tom (11 March 2008). "Enlevée à 13 ans par Fourniret". L'Avenir (in French). Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  4. ^ "De slachtoffers van Michel Fourniret". Trouw (in Dutch). 6 July 2004. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  5. ^ Tourancheau, Patricia (3 July 2004). "Fourniret, "un pervers calculateur et intelligent"". Libération (in French). Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  6. ^ Vergès, Jean-Pierre (2008). Les Fourniret, meurtres à quatre mains. L'Archipel. p. 66. ISBN 978-2-84187-967-0.
  7. ^ "Perpétuité réelle pour Michel Fourniret, 28 ans de sûreté pour Monique Olivier". Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  8. ^ "Le tueur en série Michel Fourniret a avoué les meurtres de deux femmes". Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  9. ^ "Michel Fourniret condamné à la perpétuité pour la seconde fois". Le Figaro (in French). 16 November 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  10. ^ "Michel Fourniret a reconnu le meurtre d'Estelle Mouzin". Radio France (in French). 7 March 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2020 – via Franceinfo.