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  Michel Fourniret - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michel Fourniret (born Sedan, 4 April 1942) is a French serial killer who confessed, in June and July 2004, to kidnapping, raping and murdering nine girls in a span of fourteen years during the 1980s and the 1990s.
Fourniret has been charged with the abduction of minors and sexual misconduct, and has been in detention since June 2003 for the attempted kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl in 2000.
Fourniret buried at least two of his victims at his Sautou chateau in the late 1980s.
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Michel Fourniret, dubbed The Ogre of Ardennes, is suspected of slaughtering the 20-year-old in 1990 and dumping her body in a river.
Fourniret, 63, is being held in France on charges of killing seven girls and raping or attempting to rape three others, in a long trail of horror on both sides of the border.
Fourniret is being held at Dinant because he has already been charged with the murders of two girls in the country, but the six cases being investigated by the French officials were all on French soil.
www.crimezzz.net /serialkiller_news/FOURNIRET_michel.php   (14720 words)

  
 Murder confession opens pandora's box | WORLD | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Fourniret has been in custody in Belgium since last year over a separate abduction but confessed only this week to six killings after his estranged wife denounced him to police.
Fourniret met Hellegouarch, thought to be the group's treasurer, in prison and said he used the movement's funds to buy the Sautou chateau, with about 13 hectares of grounds, near Sedan, a claim the Reims public prosecutor's office described as "extravagant".
Fourniret was jailed in France in 1984 for three years for a sex offence.
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 vrtnieuws.net - Extradition serial killer, Michel Fourniret   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Fourniret is expected to stand trial later this year, in Charleville-Mézières, for the murders he is thought to have committed in France, as well as for offenses committed in Belgium.
Fourniret is also suspected of violent theft and the attempted rape of a dog carer in Jambes (Namur) in 1995, the abduction of another girl in Ciney (Namur) in 2003 as well as a further attempted abduction in 2002.
Fourniret's handing over to the French authorities was delayed until the decision of his appeal against the extradition.
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 BBC NEWS | Europe | How Fourniret slipped through the net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The revelations by self-confessed child killer Michel Fourniret are the latest to hit France and Belgium, which are still reeling from two high-profile cases - the Dutroux case in Belgium and the Outreau paedophile trial in northern France.
Michel Fourniret, dubbed the "Ogre of the Ardennes" after the forested border region between France and Belgium where many of his confessed crimes occurred, may yet turn out to be one of France's worst serial killers in recent times.
Michel Fourniret was convicted to seven years in prison in 1987 by a French court for rape and indecent assault of minors, but was freed after a few months because of the length of time he had already spent in custody.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/europe/3875987.stm   (681 words)

  
 Serial Killer Michel Fourniret
Michel Fourniret, 62, a forestry worker, told French investigators in Belgium that he had killed Céline Saison, 18, who disappeared from Charleville-Mézières in May 2000, and Mananya Thumpong, 13, who disappeared from nearby Sedan a year later.
Fourniret had already confessed to murdering five girls and a woman over a period of 15 years and killing an unnamed motorist in a robbery in a French layby with a rifle in the 1980s.
Fourniret bought the property with his wife upon his release after serving three years of a seven-year sentence for rape and sexually assaulting children.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/serialkillers/fourniret.htm   (828 words)

  
 Crime & Justice > French Serial Killer, Michel Fourniret
Fourniret is expected to be taken to Gedinne, in case he changes his mind and wants to assist police efforts.
Fourniret's 2003 arrest prompted scores of unsolved cases across Europe to be opened by police and pressed European authorities to improve the exchange of information on convicted criminals within the 25-nation European Union.
Michel Fourniret, 65, dubbed The Ogre of Ardennes, is suspected of slaughtering the 20-year-old in 1990 and dumping her body in a river.
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 French killer faces more claims
Fourniret has confessed to two killings in Belgium and eight in France, but denies the latest allegations.
Ms Olivier, 56, is herself in custody in Dinant, Belgium, accused of being an accomplice to Fourniret's crimes.
Fourniret, 63, a carpenter who is also detained in Dinant, was arrested in Belgium in June 2003.
www.infowars.com /articles/world/france_killer_faces_more_claims.htm   (201 words)

  
 EU Countries to Share Criminal Records | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 06.04.2005
The issue was highlighted recently by the case of convicted child rapist Michel Fourniret.
Fourniret was jailed in France in 1983 for raping minors, but moved to Belgium after his release in 1987.
In the case of Fourniret, it is highly unlikely that the Belgian authorities would have sought information on a school supervisor.
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 French serial killer helps police unearth victims - World - www.theage.com.au
Michel Fourniret, 62, who has also confessed to killing a man for money, arrived at the chateau he once owned in the wooded Ardennes region on the Franco-Belgian border, accompanied by his wife Monique Olivier, police said.
Fourniret said he buried 12-year-old Belgian Elisabeth Brichet and 22-year-old French student Jeanne-Marie Desramault in the grounds of the chateau.
Fourniret has been in Belgian custody since June 2003 on suspicion of abducting minors and sexual misconduct.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/07/03/1088488205874.html?from=storylhs   (327 words)

  
 Michel Fourniret - Pedophile & Serial Killer in Europe - The Crime library
Fourniret claimed that his victims were not exclusively children but also included young women and a man.
At the time Fourniret confessed to the murders, he was already serving time in a Belgian jail for trying to abduct a 13-year-old Congolese girl.
On July 1, 2004, Expatica.com wrote that Fourniret had denied the three other murders his wife claimed he committed, which included Celine Saison, 18, and Manyana Thumpong, 13, who disappeared repsectivley in the French Ardennes in May 2000 and in 2001 and were later found in unmarked graves.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/delay_fourniret/5.html   (957 words)

  
 Fourniret, Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
She disappeared in 1988 in Mourmelon, and her body was later found in the nearby woods.
Fourniret led police to her burial site on his estate in France.
An unidentified man. Fourniret killed this man in a robbery for some quick cash.
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 Macomb Daily : Sports : Police led to 2 more victims in France 07/06/04
The revelation was a new shock for a continent still reeling from the trial of child killer Marc Dutroux in Belgium.
Fourniret cooperated Saturday to help police find two bodies near a chateau he once owned in Donchery, northern France.
Saying Fourniret has shown no remorse, the prosecutor likened him to a chess player plotting his next move and said he thrives on feeling in control -- a trait that emerged in the chateau search.
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 News 1st July 2004 | OneinFour.org
Anne Thily, state prosecutor in Liege, said that Michel Fourniret (62) had told investigators that he committed the crimes in north-eastern France and Belgium between 1987 and 2001.
M Fourniret's confession came after his wife, Monique Olivier, accused him of nine child murders, some of which she said she had seen and others of which she was told about by her husband.
M Fourniret was arrested in Belgium last year after kidnapping a 13-year-old girl who escaped and alerted the police.
www.oneinfour.org /news/news2004/echos   (384 words)

  
 Montreal woman's daughter could be victim of French serial killer: police
Fourniret has been nicknamed the "Ogre of the Ardennes" after the forested border region between France and Belgium where many of the crimes occurred.
Fourniret was convicted of rape and indecent assault of minors in 1987 by a French court and sentenced to seven years in prison.
Fourniret was scheduled to be released at the end of June because of lack of evidence, but was detained after his wife came forward.
www.cbc.ca /news/story/2004/07/12/ogre040712.html?email   (1379 words)

  
 The Cross-Country Killer - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Fourniret was a convicted sex offender in France.
That allowed Fourniret to keep killing in France and yet live a quiet life with his wife and child on the other side of the border.
But the Fourniret case has convinced many that the EU is not moving fast enough.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5411495/site/newsweek   (666 words)

  
 If a body falls in the forest at The Diner [at] Penda’s Realm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Michel Fourniret, 62, who moved to Belgium after serving a jail sentence for rape in France, has admitted six murders.
The public prosecutor in the Dinant area of the Belgian Ardennes, Arnoud d’Aspremont-Lynden, said Fourniret had confessed after his wife, Monique, admitted being present when several teenage girls were killed between 1989 and 1996.
Fourniret was arrested last year after a failed attempt to abduct another young girl in the village of Ciney, near Dinant.
www.pendasrealm.com /diner/?p=217   (523 words)

  
 Michel Fourniret - Wikipédia
Michel Fourniret, né le 4 avril 1942 à Sedan, France, est soupçonné d'être un tueur en série français.
Le quotidien « Le Soir » ajoute que Fourniret, qui était déjà connu à l'époque comme agresseur d'enfants, était, comme Ranucci, propriétaire d'une Peugeot 304 coupé (alors que le véhicule reconnu par le tôlier mécanicien témoin ainsi que par le frère de Marie-Dolores était une Simca 1100 grise).
Des nouveaux éléments concernant la disparition de la petite Estelle Mouzin impliqueraient Michel Fourniret.
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 RTE News - French police discover two bodies
The discovery was made at a chateau near the border with Belgium.
Police searched the grounds with the help of former chateau owner Michel Fourniret, the man who has admitted to nine murders.
Fourniret was linked to the killings after his estranged wife gave information to Belgian police.
www.rte.ie /news/2004/0703/france.html   (68 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Fourniret victim's remains found
Michel Fourniret has confessed to some of the killings
Police launched a new search in woods close to the French border where some of the remains of 13-year-old Manayna Thumpong were found in March 2002.
Michel Fourniret, 63, is suspected of killing up to 20 people, mostly young women, in France and Belgium.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4112080.stm   (211 words)

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