Cécile Vallin kidnapped by Fourniret, the investigators' serious lead

The case of Cécile Vallin, a 17-year-old woman who disappeared in 1997, is relaunched ;eacute;e with the placement in police custody of Monique Olivier, widow of Michel Fourniret.

Cécile Vallin, a 17-year-old teenager, has not given any sign of life since June 8, 1997. She was last seen walking along a departmental road in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. Searches were undertaken several times, but in vain. A student without problems, she was due to take her philosophy exam the next day. The hypothesis of running away was then quickly édismissedée. 

For the first time since the beginning of the case, according to Le Parisien, a police custody has been decided in the case, and not just any case, that of Monique Olivier, widow of serial killer Michel Fourniret. She is being questioned by investigators from the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons. The lawyer for the family of the young missing woman had been asking the Nanterre cold case unit to question Monique Olivier for several months.

Contacted by Le Parisien,  Monique Olivier's lawyer, Me Richard Delgenes, admitted to having been surprised by this placement in police custody : "I was called while Mrs. Olivier was already in police custody, more than three hours away from my office. So I can't go there. This seems counterproductive to me because it is certain that Mrs Olivier will be reluctant to speak out in these circumstances.

200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000

Statements that have relaunched the investigation

For weeks, investigators had been revisiting the case, following the trial of Monique Olivier for the kidnappings of Estelle Mouzin, Joanna Parrish and Marie-Angele Domèce. Last December, Didier Seban, lawyer for the Mouzin family, read comments made during a 2005 hearing of Michel Fourniret's widow by the Belgian police concerning the murder of a young “babysitter”, whose identity remains unknown, at the end of the 1997 school year.

According to BFMTV, Monique Olivier had recounted having seen the young girl arrive with the Ogre of the Ardennes: “She advanced of her own accord, in a docile manner, without wanting to flee, without any resistance”.”She seemed, however, as if “asleep”, according to Monique Olivier. She had described the young woman as being “between 16 and 18 years old, with light-coloured hair,”and was no taller than Fourniret. She “was of the white race”. “If Fourniret brought this young girl back to home, it was to sexually abuse her. If he abused her, he wasn't going to let her leave alive,” she had also said, even though she had been forced to leave the family home.  

A profile and a period that could correspond to the Cécile Vallin case. "The correspondence of dates between what Monique Olivier says and my daughter's disappearance is alarming. “It's really very important to check,” the father of the missing woman said.