The trial of French serial killer Michel Fourniret and his wife heads for a verdict this week, with prosecutors seeking life in jail for the couple described as a "devil with two faces". Fourniret and Monique Olivier will be sentenced on Wednesday at the end of a trial exposing one of France’s most gruesome cases in recent years.
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/ 10 January 2006
A self-confessed French serial killer believed to have murdered at least seven young women over a 15-year period was extradited on Monday from Belgium to France to face trial. Journalists saw 63-year-old carpenter Michel Fourniret handed over to French authorities after arriving at the French-Belgian border in one of two grey unmarked Belgian police cars.