The research campaign to find the child’s body, disappeared in 2003 at the age of 9, begins Monday for at least two days.
Le Monde With AFP
Almost twenty years after the disappearance in 2003 of Estelle Mouzin, 9, new excavations are carried out by the investigators. This campaign to find the body of the child, alleged victim of the serial killer Michel Fourniret, must begin on Monday October 10 in Issancourt-et-Rumel (Ardennes), learned the France-Presse (AFP) agency to the Family lawyer, M e Didier Seban, and from a source to the gendarmerie, confirming information from the Ardennes .
The town hall of Issancourt-et-Rumel said that it had taken a traffic prohibition and parking for rue du Stade, leading to wood, from October 10 to 12, whose access was crossed out By the gendarmes, noted the AFP.
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é> Didier Seban and M e Richard Delgenes, the lawyer for Monique Olivier, the ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, must go there on Monday after -midday. For these new excavations, the investigators must this time rely on a soil map, according to a source close to the file.
The wood of the village of Issancourt-et-Rumel (four hundred inhabitants) has already been explored several times by the investigators, following indications delivered by Monique Olivier, in particular in September and November 2021. Condemned to perpetuity incompressible for the murders of seven young women or adolescent girls between 1987 and 2001, Michel Fourniret, died in Paris on May 10, 2021 at 79 years old, had ended up admitting in March 2020 his responsibility in the disappearance of the child.
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Estelle Mouzin had disappeared at Guermantes (Seine-et-Marne), the evening of January 9, 2003, when she returned from school. For many years, the investigation went from dead ends in dead end, despite the determination of the girl’s father, Éric Mouzin, to find her trace. Succeeding in this case at seven other magistrates, judge Sabine Kheris had succeeded in March 2020 to have serial killer recognized his role in the death of the child.
It was also at the magistrate that Monique Olivier had ended up admitting, last April, having accompanied her ex-husband on January 11, 2003 in Issancourt-et-Rumel so that he bursts the body. The site is located near Ville-sur-Lumes, where, according to Monique Olivier, her ex-husband has kidnapped, raped and killed Estelle in a house belonging to her sister. The partial DNA of the child was found in two places on a mattress seized in 2003 in this house.