After three long weeks of hearing and more than ten hours of deliberation, Monique Olivier was sentenced this Tuesday evening by the Hauts-de-Seine Assize Court to life imprisonment, accompanied by a security period of 20 years, for her complicity in three kidnappings and murders committed by her ex-husband Michel Fourniret.
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“ The court was convinced of the guilt of Monique Olivier “, read the president of the court Didier Safar. Marie-Angèle Domèce, 18 years old, Joanna Parrish, 20 years old, and finally Estelle Mouzin, 9 years old: the three victims of the serial killer were indeed kidnapped, kidnapped, killed with the complicity of Monique Olivier, judged the court, which also admitted his complicity in the rape of Joanna Parrish and the attempted rape of Marie-Angèle Domèce.
With her head lowered, her eyes half-closed, the 75-year-old accused listened to the verdict, looking impassive. She had previously asked “ pardon » to the families of the victims and declared their regret “ everything I did “.
The court answered in the affirmative to the fourteen questions put to it on the kidnappings, accompanied by rape or attempted rape, and murders of two young women: Marie-Angèle Domèce in 1988, and Joanna Parrish in 1990. Then to the six other questions on the kidnapping and sequestration followed by death of Estelle Mouzin, the youngest of Michel Fourniret’s victims, who disappeared in January 2003.
Not releasable before 2035
On Monday, the public prosecutor requested life imprisonment against the accused, accompanied by a security period of twenty-two years, “ in view of the exceptional seriousness of the acts committed, the necessary protection of society “.
With a hesitant voice, Monique Olivier presented herself as the victim of her ex-husband, who died in detention in 2021, throughout her third trial before the assizes, which began on November 28. On the civil parties and prosecution side, lawyers like the public prosecutor tried to uncover the enigmatic ex-wife of the killer, accused of not having “ Safe ” there “ small » Estelle when she participated in his kidnapping or even for having remained motionless in the front of Michel Fourniret’s vehicle while he raped and killed Joanna Parrish.
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In 2008, the Ardennes Assize Court sentenced Monique Olivier to life imprisonment for complicity in four kidnappings and murders of her husband. Then, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison, 10 years later in Versailles, again for complicity, this time in a villainous murder. She had been sentenced to a total of 30 years in prison during these two previous convictions, and will therefore not be released until 2035.
(With AFP)