At the trial of the former wife of serial killer Michel Fourniret, the court heard psychologists, eight in total, all day Tuesday, December 12. Monique Olivier, prosecuted for complicity in the kidnapping and disappearance of a little girl and two young women, is one of the detainees, if not the most expert detainee in France. And yet, these psychologists have not really been able to unravel the Monique Olivier mystery.
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A personality “ submitted » but not passive. This is how psychologists describe Monique Olivier. One of them even speaks of “ social alienation » towards men. She who was neglected by her family, mistreated by her first husband, feels like she exists alongside Michel Fourniret, who needs her. So valued that she helps him commit his crimes. Between them there is a complementarity » total, estimates an expert who does not know who is manipulating the other.
Monique Olivier nevertheless has a moral conscience, some psychologists point out, but she has more to gain from evil than from good, summarizes one of them. She does not leave Michel Fourniret because she finally feels important.
“ Emotional indifference »
For another expert, she does not want to leave her son, does not know where to go and how to provide for them. She has an unhealthy fear of loneliness, says a third psychologist.
Did she stay because these crimes gave her pleasure?, asks the court. Here again, we are drowning in hypotheses. Experts agree, however, that Monique Olivier feels nothing in the face of the suffering of Michel Fourniret’s victims, “ emotional indifference “, “ no affect “.