For the first time in 27 years, a police custody is underway in the case of Cécile Vallin, the 17-year-old girl who seemingly vanished on June 8, 1997 in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (Savoie). According to concordant sources, Monique Olivier, the widow of Michel Fourniret, was taken into custody by police officers from the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP) this Tuesday morning as part of this case. For several weeks, investigators and investigating judge Emmanuelle Ducos, stationed at the cold-case unit in Nanterre, had been delving into the twists and turns of Cécile Vallin’s disappearance and now intend to confront the septuagenarian.
The recent trial of Monique Olivier for the kidnappings of Estelle Mouzin, Joanna Parrish and Marie-Angèle Domèce has indeed prompted investigators to explore again the trail leading to Michel Fourniret in the Vallin case. During this third trial at the assizes for the widow of the Ogre of the Ardennes, a disturbing document was thus exhumed from the archives of the Belgian police. A hearing of Monique Olivier dated July 13, 2005. Monique Olivier explained to a Belgian police officer that “if Fourniret brought this young girl home, it was to sexually abuse her. If he abused her, he was not going to let her leave alive.”
