Monique Olivier is not done with the justice system. The ex-wife of serial killer and rapist Michel Fourniret was taken into custody on Tuesday, September 10, as part of the judicial investigation into the disappearance in Savoie of young Cécile Vallin in 1997. Her custody was lifted in the evening, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said. The investigation, opened at the time, was resumed at the end of 2022 by the ” cold case » from Nanterre.
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On June 8, 1997, Cécile Vallin, 17, disappeared on a road in Savoie, in the east of the France. It was last December, in the wake of the trial of Monique Olivier for complicity in the kidnapping and murder of two young women and little Estelle Mouzin that the Michel Fourniret trail was reopened. At the hearing, a lawyer had read statements by Monique Olivier to Belgian investigators, referring to a “ baby-sitter “, “ a sleeping girl » that she would have seen at the couple’s Belgian home and that Michel Fourniret would have « strangled with bare hands ” around June 1997.
” This had a great impact on my mind, especially in terms of the concordance of dates, confides Caty Richard, the lawyer for the Vallin family. I then asked for her hearing, because I think that Monique Olivier would have things to say and that she could help us. »
” Such wild custody risks being counterproductive »
Except that Monique Olivier’s lawyer, who says he was not informed of this police custody, claims that his client will remain silent in his absence. Worse, she could become permanently angry, he assures. It’s been 15 years that we know that it takes time for her to talk and that we have to gain her trust. An uncontrolled police custody like this risks being counterproductive for the Vallin family but also for the Lydie Logé case “, deplores Master Richard Delgenes.
Monique Olivier was in fact indicted in 2021 for complicity in the disappearance in 1993 of this 29-year-old woman, after connections were made between DNA found in Michel Fourniret’s van and that of Lydie Logé’s mother. Michel Fourniret died in 2021.
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