French serial killer sentenced to life in prison
The majority of the victims were killed in the Ardennes region of France and Belgium
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Wednesday, 28, May 2008 02:32
A 66-year-old French man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering seven girls and young women.
Michel Fourniret, named locally as the Ogre of the Ardennes, previously admitted to kidnapping and killing the seven females between 1987 and 2001.
His wife, Monique Olivier, 59, was also found guilty of complicity at a court in northern France.
She was accused of helping trap Fourniret's victims, most of whom he later raped.
Olivier must now serve a minimum of 28 years in prison, the court declared.
The victims were aged between 12 and 22 and the majority were killed in the Ardennes region of France and Belgium.
During the trial, state prosecutor Francis Nachbar described the couple as "inhuman and cruel criminals, the likes of which our country could have never imagined".
He described Fourniret as a "necrophiliac monster" and claimed that together with his wife they acted like a "devil with two faces".