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The Estelle Mouzin affair is a French criminal case which began on 9 January 2003 with the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin in the city of Guermantes in France. Estelle Mouzin was a nine-year-old girl who was returning from school when she disappeared.

Disappearance

On Thursday 9 January 2003, Estelle Mouzin, a nine-year-old girl, disappeared on the way back from school in Guermantes. She was seen for the last time in front of a bakery, while she was coming back to her mother's home, Suzanne Mouzin, who was in the process of divorce with the girl's father, Eric Mouzin. Her mother reported the fact she was missing to the local police station shortly after 7 P.M.^[1] Her disappearance had a huge media coverage all over the country.

Investigations

First suspect

The first person to be suspected was serial killer Michel Fourniret, who was arrested in June 2003 in Belgium. However, after consideration, the police discounted Fourniret because he had an alibi: a phonecall was made from his home at the time of Estelle Mouzin's disappearance.^[2]

Two weeks before Estelle's disappearance, a girl of the same age was almost kidnapped by a man in a white van, from which she was able to make a facial composite. When Fourniret was suspected, investigators showed his photo to the girl, and he says it wasn't him who tried to kidnap her. While taking the police to a place he buried one of his victims, Fourniret described the clothes his victim was wearing, and it was very close to those Estelle wore the day she disappeared.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

Despite his alibi and the fact Fourniret denied any involvement in this case, the fact it could be Fourniret was taken into consideration when the police found a television recording and photos of the girl at the suspect's home and on his computer.^[3]^[4]^[5] The hypothesis of the implication of Fourniret is abandoned in 2007, for lack of sufficient proofs, and the fact he has an alibi.

The inquiry, led by the commissioner Jean-Marc Bloch, employed unprecedented means in French history; more than 130 persons were interrogated by the police and all the houses of the city were seized.^[6]

2008 investigations

Several arrests took place on Thursday 31 January 2008 in the cities of Brie-Comte-Robert and Lognes (Seine-et-Marne). A search was conducted at the Royal Wok restaurant in Brie-Comte-Robert, where it was suspected human remains were used.^[8] On February 1, this track proved to be unsuccessful; only the remains of an animal were found in the place.

2009 onward investigations

Notes and references

Bibliography

Documentaries

France

Belgium

References

1. ^France Info, 8 January 2013, La disparition d'Estelle Mouzin, 10 ans après
2. ^Le Figaro, 6 January 2007, Pas de lien entre Fourniret et la disparition d'Estelle {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929120442/http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20070106.WWW000000058_pas_de_lien_entre_fourniret_et_la_disparition_d_estelle_.html |date=2007-09-29 }}
3. ^Le Figaro, 17 November 2006, Disparition d’Estelle Mouzin : l'hypothèse Fourniret relancée {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818181939/http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20061117.WWW000000293_disparition_destelle_mouzin_fourniret_de_nouveau_dans_la_ligne_de_mire.html |date=2007-08-18 }}
4. ^Le Monde, 17 November 2006, Disparition d'Estelle Mouzin : la piste Fourniret ressurgit
5. ^RTL, 20 November 2006, Affaire Estelle Mouzin, Michel Fourniret serait-il en cause ? {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927020045/http://www.rtl.fr/info/article.asp?dicid=492475 |date=2007-09-27 }}
6. ^France 2 (archived by the Ina), 16 June 2005, Audition affaire Estelle Mouzin
7. ^France 2 (archived by the Ina), 6 January 2007, Le quatrième anniversaire de la disparition d'Estelle Mouzin
8. ^20 minutes, 31 January 2008, Disparition d'Estelle Mouzin: interpellations dans un restaurant en Seine-et-Marne