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'Virgin hunter' dragged to court
28/03/2008 14:01 - (SA)
Charleville-Mezieres, France - Self-confessed French serial killer Michel Fourniret, who threatened to "boycott" his trial for the murder of seven girls, was brought by force on Friday to the court, the prosecutor said.
"Every day, Mr Fourniret, you will be at the trial or you will be brought by force," the visibly angry prosecutor Francis Nachbar told the accused, who sat next to his wife and alleged accomplice Monique Olivier.
"You will no longer manipulate anyone... I represent society and society will not be subject to your caprices and your moods. Stop this intolerable indecency," Nachbar said.
Fourniret, 65, and Olivier, 59, sat on Friday with bowed heads behind bullet-proof glass as court officials continued to read out the evidence against them.
The parents of the victims allegedly murdered by Fourniret sat opposite the accused and Olivier. They had heard on Thursday how she had agreed to find him virgins for him if he killed her first husband.
Fourniret on Thursday admitted to being "devoid of human emotion" on the first day of his trial with his wife for the rape and murder of seven girls and young women over a 15-year period.
Dubbed the "Ogre of the Ardennes", he began his trial by holding up for the presiding judge a piece of paper that said: "My lips are sealed if there is no closed door hearing."
He then gave Judge Gilles Latapie a document which he said was "an explanation .... to explain why I am boycotting the court."
In the meandering and often incomprehensible text, a copy of which AFP later obtained from his lawyers, Fourniret said he would not co-operate with the trial because it would be a media circus.
But the former electrician admitted in the document that he was "a bad person devoid of human emotion".
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