Monique calmed the victims into getting into Fourniret's van. She admitted to being in Auxerre when Parrish was kidnapped, arrested, raped and murdered.
Joanna Parrish's father, Roger Parrish, said he had waited a “very long time” for the sentencing. “Her presence alone would have won the trust of all the victims, who would never have believed that a woman could have been involved in such a terrible and depraved act.”
Shortly before the jury considered Monique's role in the crimes, she asked the victims' families for forgiveness.. “I regret everything I have done and I ask the victims’ families for forgiveness, even though I know it is unforgivable.”
During the sentencing, the president of the court, Didier Safar, said that the crimes had “inhumane circumstances”.: “This is the extreme gravity of the facts that contributed to the deaths of two young women and a nineyearold girl in inhumane circumstances.” […] Monique Olivier had no compassion for her victims, whom she dehumanized.
Monique is already serving a life sentence for her role in her exhusband's previous crimes, who died in 2021. Now she has been sentenced for the second time to life imprisonment with a minimum of 20 years.
Fourniret was arrested in 2003 and found guilty of raping and murdering at least seven girls between 1987 and 2003. Most of Fourniret's victims were killed in the Ardennes region of northern France and Belgium.