Thanks to the rigorous method of a judge, the widow of Michel Fourniret confessed her involvement in the disappearance of Lydie Logé in Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet, in Orne, in 1993.
More than thirty years of silence. Thirty years during which those close to Lydie Logé waited for answers. The 29-year-old young woman is suspected of being the twelfth and last victim of serial killer Michel Fourniret, sentenced to irreducible life imprisonment in 2008. Since his disappearance in Saint-Christophe-le-Jajolet, in Orne, the body of the victim was never found, learned BFMTV from a source close to the matter this Monday, January 20, confirming information from RTL.
The “ogre of the Ardennes”, who died in 2021, had confessed to the murder of Lydie Logé in 2019. Until now, his widow Monique Olivier – indicted for “complicity in kidnapping and kidnapping followed by death” in this case – had always denied his participation. But more than thirty years after the events, she confessed her involvement in the death and disappearance of the victim.
Monique Olivier, 76, “recognized that she was on the scene, which is a form of confession for me”, explained Corinne Herrmann, lawyer for Lydie Logé’s two sisters, to AFP. “Monique Olivier made her confession before the investigating judge in several times, she explains in the RTL morning show. The prosecutor, Ms. Kheris, had also managed to obtain a confession from Michel Fourniret, she knows how to take the time and knows how to look for humans in their homes.
The judge who made Michel Fourniret confess
Surprising confessions, after several unsuccessful interviews at the Nanterre cold cases pole, joined in 2022 by the dean of Paris investigating judges, Sabine Khéris. “Like most serial criminals, they speak in stages,” explains the lawyer. “They speak when they are questioned about a specific case. They do not speak spontaneously. They have so many secrets, so many committed acts that it “It’s difficult to talk about it spontaneously and then they wait to be questioned simply to talk about these cases” explains the lawyer, who salutes the remarkable work of this judge.
Magistrate Sabine Khéris’ ability to listen is known in the profession: she has several sensitive cases to her credit. In 2014, in the case of the “wall of idiots” of the Magistracy Union, it referred its president to court for “public insults”, against the advice of the prosecution. Later, in the Mouzin affair, she was the first to formally link Michel Fourniret to the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, after the DNA of the little girl who disappeared in 2003 in Seine-et-Marne was found by experts on one of the exhibits.
From now on, she can boast of having made her widow Monique Olivier speak as well. As a continuation of the investigation, the latter must still be taken from her cell in Fleury-Mérogis prison to go to Orne until Thursday, franceinfo learned. Lydie Logé’s family is still waiting for Michel Fourniret’s widow “to provide more details and to help locate Lydie’s body”, underlines Me Corinne Herrmann to AFP.