Michel Fourniret’s ex-wife was taken into custody on Tuesday, September 10, as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Cécile Vallin, which dates back to 1997 in Savoie.
Monique Olivier, ex-wife of serial killer Michel Fourniret, was taken into police custody on Tuesday morning, September 10, as part of the investigation into the disappearance in Savoie of Cécile Vallin in 1997, AFP learned from a source close to the case, confirming information from “Le Parisien”.
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The Michel Fourniret track reopened
Cécile Vallin, 17, was last seen on June 8, 1997 at 6 p.m., along a departmental road at the exit of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, heading towards Chambéry. The Michel Fourniret lead in her disappearance was reopened after statements by Monique Olivier at her trial last December, for complicity in the kidnappings and murders of Estelle Mouzin, Joanna Parrish and Marie-Angèle Domèce.
On December 5, Didier Seban, lawyer for the Mouzin family, read statements by Monique Olivier to Belgian investigators who mentioned the murder of a young girl, an unidentified “babysitter” around June 1997. According to these statements reported by the lawyer, Monique Olivier spoke of a “young girl asleep” at the couple’s home in Sart-Custinne in Belgium whom Michel Fourniret had allegedly “strangled with his bare hands”. At the time, Monique Olivier simply denied it. “We weren’t in Savoie”, she replied in an annoyed tone. Contacted…
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