Michel Fourniret’s ex-wife, Monique Olivier “participates, answers questions, has snippets of memories”, her lawyer 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, 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 facing 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 that Michel Fourniret used for the kidnapping of his victims.
“Monique Olivier actively participates in it, so that’s why we follow up again with the truck,” detailed her 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.
– “Complicated to have answers 33 years later” –
-“We are working to determine the exact location where he would have spotted her and the place where, from when, he could have started following her,” the lawyer then explained, adding that he was “ too early” to be certain. “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. On the instructions of Monique Olivier, it is more difficult because she has trouble finding her way. But you always have to try everything,” he said. -she said.
“The families need answers. Lydie Logé’s family needs to be able to give her a dignified burial,” added Me 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 established 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.
The “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 on this disappearance.
