Fourniret affair: Monique Olivier admits her involvement in the disappearance of Lydie Logé

Lydie Logé disappeared in Orne in December 1993. A case that remained unsolved for a long time but for which the serial killer, Michel Fourniret, admitted his possible involvement in 2019 after the police officers of the OCRVP (Central Office for the Repression of violence against people) discovered the DNA of the 29-year-old young woman, extracted from a hair, under a floor mat of the Ogre des Ardennes van. His ex-wife, Monique Olivier, in turn confessed her involvement in this disappearance, the family’s lawyer told AFP on Monday January 20.

Monique Olivier, indicted since January 2021 for complicity in the investigation concerning this disappearance, “admitted that she was at the scene, which is a form of confession for me”specified Me Corinne Herrmann, confirming information from RTL. Lydie Logé’s body was never found. These confessions took place “in several stages” before the investigating judge of the serial and unsolved crimes center of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), Me Herrmann detailed to AFP, without giving further details on the content of these remarks.

A trip to the site planned for Thursday

A transport to the scene of the events, in the presence of the accused, is planned for Thursday, according to the lawyer. According to RTL, Monique Olivier admitted that the couple had kidnapped the young woman and that Michel Fourniret had tried to rape Lydie Logé before strangling her. Monique Olivier would have confirmed the murder and participated in hiding the body.

Lydie Logé, mother of a seven-year-old boy, disappeared on December 18, 1993 in the village of Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet, in Orne, where she lived. 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 the connections established between the discovery of DNA traces in Michel Fourniret’s van and the DNA of the mother of Lydie Logé.

On December 22, 2020, the serial killer was indicted for kidnapping and forcible confinement followed by death. His ex-wife, Monique Olivier, is being prosecuted for complicity. Almost 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.

The family is now waiting for Monique Olivier “that it provides more details and allows Lydie’s body to be located”concludes Me Corinne Herrmann to AFP. Contacted by AFP, Monique Olivier’s lawyer, Me Richard Delgenes, did not react immediately.