Michel Fourniret, the ”ogre of Ardennes”, was sentenced on Wednesday to life for the rape and murder of seven girls and young women, driven by his obsession with virginity. His wife, Monique Olivier, who helped him select and lure his victims, and who connived in some of the murders, was also given a life sentence.
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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/ 3 February 2008
It is a desolate northern French town, not far from the Belgian border. He is an unremarkable, greying, French former electrician. She is an unexceptional, dowdy housewife. Yet there is nothing ordinary about the coming trial of Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier in the steel-and-glass modern courthouse of Charleville-Mézières.