# Michel Fourniret investigation: searches planned in the Ardennes - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119678005987467458 - Source account: [@seeker1203562](https://x.com/seeker1203562) - Source language: French - Target language: English - Duration: 3:00 - Published: 2026-11-09 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/fr/affaire-michel-fourniret-les-recherches-dans-les-ardennes.md ## Transcript [0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=1) The Ardennes Forest Ogre's castle has yet to reveal any of its dark mysteries. [0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=6) This morning, in torrential rain, there was little to no activity, except for gendarmes making reconnaissance rounds without making any statement. [0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=17) No comment. What have you come here to do? [0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=20) No comment. Yet it was here, in the middle of this dense forest stretching over dozens of hectares, that Michel Fourniret confessed last night to having buried two of his victims. [0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=31) The Belgian and French investigators who met this afternoon at the courthouse in Charleville-Mézières, are still trying to find out exactly where. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=39) Besides, they are sharing all their information. [0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=43) They are judicial police officers working under the direction either prosecutors or investigating judges. [0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=48) The unusual thing is that they're either French or Belgian, with the Belgians acting in agreement with us, and vice versa. [0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=56) Two countries, one case in which many mysteries remain. [0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=59) In Belgium, for example, investigators have dug up nearly 250 unsolved cases of crimes against minors. [1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=65) Michel Fourniret could be involved in some of them. [1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=69) Tonight, the French and Belgian judges, surrounded by their team, are finalizing the details before launching the search operations. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=75) Searches that could begin as early as tomorrow morning at first light, with Michel Fourniret and his wife present. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=84) Cold and distant, Michel Fourniret, 62, apparently shows no remorse. [1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=90) But after a year of silence behind bars, accused today by his wife, he finally speaks. [1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=96) He admits to his crimes, his rapes, his attraction to young girls. [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=99) Six confessed victims yesterday, nine today. [1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=102) This is the case of Isabelle Laville, who disappeared in a village near Auxerre. [1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=105) Her family still hopes to recover their daughter's remains. [1:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=110) May the justice system search quickly to find my daughter's body and may this individual be tried soon. [2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=121) Because it's been seventeen years, and I wouldn't want to wait another seventeen years. [2:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=128) In Belgium as in France, many other unsolved murders and disappearances will occupy investigators. [2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=134) Céline Saison, Magnana Tupong, Elisabeth Bricher. [2:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=138) To begin this very difficult grieving process, Families need to know how their children died. [2:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=143) Fourteen years after the murder of her little girl, Natacha's mother is still inconsolable today. [2:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=150) I'd like them to kill him. That way, he won't do it again. [2:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=154) Because he'll get out, what? It'll be just like the others. [2:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=157) He'll get out in ten years, he'll be out, and start again. [2:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=160) Sir, how many crimes do you admit to? Within a few hours, Michel Fourniret confessed to everything, but the justice system wants to be cautious. [2:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=166) How many crimes do you admit to? For the suspect has yet to reveal any formal evidence. [2:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Xx26MeSj7NJM/en/michel-fourniret-investigation-searches-planned-in-the-ardennes?t=170) Although his perversity is now established, his guilt, murder by murder, remains to be proven.