Monique Olivier “actively participates” in the reconstructions

Michel Fourniret’s ex-wife, Monique Olivier “participates, answers questions, has snippets of memories”his lawyer Mr. Richard Delgenes told the press, on the sidelines of a first day of reconstruction around Argentan (Orne) of the disappearance in 1993 of Lydie Logé. Monique Olivier, who admitted her involvement in the disappearance of Lydie Logé whom her ex-husband Michel Fourniret is suspected of having killed, arrived Tuesday around 4:45 p.m. in Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet, in front of the home where the young woman lived aged 29 when he died in 1993.

Monique Olivier, 76 years old, arrived in a convoy of at least six vehicles, surrounded by around twenty gendarmes and police officers, and in the presence of the investigating judge from the serial and unsolved crimes center of Nanterre (Hauts- de-Seine) Sabine Khéris, noted an AFP journalist, who saw the convoy leave the scene shortly before 7 p.m. The procession had wandered around Argentan at the beginning of the afternoon in possible search of places where the couple could have spotted the victim who was shopping there that day. “The only objective of all this is to find the body of Lydie Logé”Mr. Richard Delgenes told the press at nightfall.

The narrow pavilion, surrounded by a garden, is located opposite a field at the exit of this village of 240 inhabitants, south of Argentan. “We already know that Michel Fourniret is the assassin, and she (Monique Olivier Editor’s note) was present in the truck, it seems” added Me Delgenes, referring to the van which Michel Fourniret used to kidnap his victims. “Monique Olivier actively participates in it, so that’s why we’re doing the tracking again with the truck”detailed his lawyer, “we return to the scene, and then she answers the questions that are asked”. Monique Olivier was indicted in January 2021 for complicity in arrest, kidnapping, detention or arbitrary confinement in the investigation concerning Lydie Logé.

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“We are working to determine where exactly he would have spotted her and where, from when, he could have started to follow her”then explained the lawyer, adding that he was “too early” to have certainty. “It’s the first day of investigations and there are three planned, it’s complicated 33 years later to have answers but even more so I suppose for the victims’ family”he added.

Me Corinne Herrmann, lawyer for the victim’s family, declared on RTL Tuesday morning the importance of these searches. “There are cases where bodies have been found more than thirty years after the events. Following Monique Olivier’s directions, it’s more difficult because she has trouble finding her way. But you always have to try everything”she said. “Families need answers. Lydie Logé’s family needs to be able to give her a dignified burial.”added Mr. Herrmann. Lydie Logé, mother of a seven-year-old boy, disappeared on December 18, 1993 in the village of Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet, in Orne. After doing her Christmas shopping with a friend, the last person to see her alive, she returned home.

While two investigations from 1994 to 1998 then from 2004 to 2009 resulted in dismissals, the investigations were relaunched in 2018 after connections were made between the DNA traces from organic compounds found in Michel Fourniret’s van and the DNA of Lydie Logé’s mother. On December 22, 2020, the serial killer was indicted for kidnapping and sequestration followed by death. His ex-wife, Monique Olivier, is being prosecuted for complicity. L’“Ogre of the Ardennes” died a few months later, in May 2021. Nearly thirty years after the events, in June 2023, the young woman’s sisters launched a call for witnesses on RTL to try to obtain information about this disappearance.