2023-11-29 10:01:00
The ex-wife of the “ogre of the Ardennes” is on trial for complicity in the kidnapping and sequestration of Estelle Mouzin.
A childhood without love
She will keep her commitment and speak at length all followingnoon. More than four hours of interrogation. Standing, she sometimes clings to the window of the accused box with her right hand. She talks regarding her childhood with a father who ignored her and an alcoholic mother. “I have not known any parents who hold their children in their arms.” At the start of the hearing, his responses are limp, almost mechanical. Monique Olivier must listen carefully to hear all the questions. Didier Safar questions him at length regarding his relationships with his various companions. Her first violent husband with whom she has two children. Her second husband, an American whom she married to enable her to obtain French nationality. And then there is Michel Fourniret in 1987 with whom she entered via a classified ad in a Christian magazine.
A criminal pact
At that time, he was awaiting trial for several rapes and sexual assaults in the Paris region. They will exchange hundreds of letters and seal what investigators will later call a criminal pact. “Monique Olivier knew what her future would be like with Michel Fourniret,” writes one of the Belgian police officers responsible for going through this correspondence. “It’s completely stupid what he says,” says the accused. She avoids saying the serial killer’s first name. Sometimes she calls him Fourniret. “Were you in love with him? ” asks the president of the court. “Maybe at first, but then I got tired of it. I thought regarding all these horrors, he used me as an object. ”
”No, I’m not dangerous”
Marine Allali, Estelle Mouzin’s father’s lawyer, points out to her that she is constantly victimizing herself. This time, Monique Olivier raises her voice “I won’t say anything anymore, so people will stop saying that I position myself as a victim. ” Throughout her interrogation, Michel Fourniret’s ex-wife kept repeating that she had only obeyed, that she feared her ex-husband. “He knew I was afraid of him, deep down he must have been happy.”
Died in 2021, the serial killer is not here to answer. Monique Olivier is for the first time alone in the accused box. And for the first time, she speaks without bowing her head in front of a criminal court. On several occasions, she expresses her regrets. But, it doesn’t answer all the questions. “I don’t know, I don’t have an answer.” On this serial killer’s obsession with virginity, she assures that it was a pretext for him before finally saying the opposite a few minutes later. “You joined this quest for virgins? ” The accused agrees before adding “It was a little shocking, but also ridiculous to still be in this search for virginity. ”
Before the Assize Court, she often sighs and gets annoyed when the counsel for the civil parties question her and question her position as a victim. A lawyer, Maître Sonia Kanoun, asks her if she is dangerous. Monique Olivier almost screams: “Dangerous to me? It’s not okay! No, I am not dangerous”… An answer that casts a chill in the courtroom.
Nicknamed “the ghost woman” in detention, Monique Olivier seems to have decided to come out of the shadows. His trial is expected to last two weeks.
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