The fourteen bathrooms of Fourniret Castle

Let us now turn to Sautou Castle, located in Donchery, near Sedan, a stone's throw from the Belgian border. On the surface, the sex offender was not one to be satisfied with minimal comfort. In 1988, Fourniret, Selim, and Monique Olivier left their caravan parked in Floing on land he nicknamed the kindergarten and bought this luxurious, isolated 19th-century manor house, with an ochre facade, three stories high, flanked by two turrets. All surrounded by around fifteen hectares of land cut into a triangle equilateral, in the heart of the Ardennes forest. For its acquisition, Michel Fourniret paid no less than 1.2 million francs (€183,000), paid in cash to a Sedan notary. A purchase made possible thanks to the fabulous treasure of the Postiches gang? Part of it, no doubt… The couple lived there until 1991. So to speak… We met William M., forty years old, Monique Olivier's son from a previous union with André M., a former soldier, her first husband. Regarding the Château du Sautou, he agrees to speak for the first time. He gives a surprising description that suggests Fourniret's use of the Sautou was not what was previously believed.

"I went to the Château du Sautou two or three times," explains Monique Olivier's other son. "I only slept there one night." It was in the outbuilding, located to the side. With Fourniret, his wife, and his son. What struck me most when I was there was the fact that Fourniret restricted our movements. At Sautou, William M. made a surprising observation, one he had never mentioned before: contrary to everything that has been reported, the Fourniret family never actually lived in the castle with the slender spires. "I never went inside," he reveals, explaining that Michel Fourniret and his family lived in the small caretaker's lodge adjoining the right wing of the castle. William specifies that his ex-father-in-law had strictly forbidden them any access to the main building, especially to the top floor. Access was blocked. He strictly forbade me from entering. The entire interior of the castle was closed "for renovations," supposedly. He spent his time "tinkering" there. As a result, we all lived crammed into the guard's house, including my mother, Selim, and Michel Fourniret.

What was the point of buying a three-story castle only to end up occupying only a small guard's apartment? In the visiting room at Ensisheim prison on January 16, 2016, Michel Fourniret explained: My goal was never to become a lord of the castle. Initially, I was supposed to renovate the Sautou to increase its resale value and make a tidy sum." In a letter dated January 24, 2016, worthy of Bluebeard, Michel Fourniret mentions a secret staircase that is barely visible. He adds: "Incognito, the Devil acts and schemes." Is he referring here to the top floor, forbidden to his family? He concludes this same letter with these words written in red, highlighted in bright pink: "Goods lifts and elevators? Reserved for the Lord!" But that's not all. Fourniret thinks of everything. William M. recounts: "To dissuade us from entering the castle, Fourniret used the pretext that there was a hornet infestation on the top floor. A mortal danger, invented... In retrospect, when we know what was found in the woods surrounding the park, we dare not imagine what he was doing up there.

During Fourniret's trial in 2008, agents of the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) admitted that Fourniret had been placed under surveillance by them, on the grounds that he was suspected of being a terrorist. In a note written on August 1, 1989, by the Mobile Border Brigade of the Air and Border Police (PAF), the two suspects Monique Olivier and Michel Fourniret are presented as wealthy sympathizers of the dissolved group Action Directe (AD). However, they do not will not be troubled by the courts. At the trial, they were all able to say that they were monitoring Michel Fourniret at the Château du Sautou, to the point of being able to count how many eggs and baguettes he had bought, protests Dahina Le Guennan. However, they were not able to see that he was burying two little girls there.

In the book Les Fourniret. Meurtres à quatre mains by Jean-Pierre Vergès, we can read, in black and white, this official police report: "Comings and goings could be observed approaching the château, and it is not excluded that people live there permanently. Monique Olivier was seen buying food and various alcoholic beverages in fairly large quantities."

Alcohol? No, Monique and Michel drank red wine, but only at the table, and even then, in small quantities. Him a little more than her, but they weren't drunks," Selim objects. The observations made by the DGSE rather suggest supplies for banquets, involving the participation of numerous guests. Hence the comings and goings." It is therefore impossible not to make a connection with the "orgy and the feast" previously described in the letters of the ogre of the Ardennes.

On this subject, Marie-Noelle Bouzet, the mother of the late Elizabeth Brichet, brings to our attention another fact little known to the general public, and hitherto neglected: "From reading the investigation file, it appears that Michel Fourniret built fourteen bathrooms inside the castle," she assures us. This surreal information was also confirmed by Dahina Le Guennan, the survivor.

Astonishing. Fourteen bathrooms in an unoccupied castle? To avoid attracting attention, Michel Fourniret, as we know, was capable of tinkering with the pipes in such a way as to cheat the Compagnie Générale des Eaux. "He bragged about it to me," his son-in-law William M. reiterated. "He was very proud of it." In 2005, the Dinant Criminal Court also criticized him for his completely abnormal overconsumption of water and electricity. Between 1998 and 2003, a five-year period, he alone allegedly consumed the equivalent of twenty years of average consumption for a couple in the small house he owned in Sart-Custinne, Belgium. How can this overconsumption of water be explained? The investigation was unable to establish it, nor was the purpose of the 750 kilos of de-icing salt he had stored there. Highly corrosive, this salt can be used to dissolve a body, according to the police.

That's the distance across the Belgian border that separates Michel Fourniret's castle from the Château des Amerois, a place which, according to several concordant testimonies in the Dutroux affair, was a site where child sacrifices allegedly took place. Marc Dutroux recently told psychiatric experts that the kidnapping of his victims was carried out on the orders of instigators he cannot denounce. Already in 1996, following a report detailing the arrests in the Dutroux case, several witnesses reported being recruited into a pedophile prostitution ring where torture and murder were the norm. Many of them pointed to Marc Dutroux and businessman Michel Nihoul, one as the perpetrator, the other as the instigator. The Dutroux case report contains the clearest allegations about the Château des Amerois. The 1,235-page document contains the details of the Dutroux case. Former gendarme René Mignon, now deceased, mentions child sacrifice at the Château des Amerois, owned by the Solvay family (one of the largest industrial families in Europe, founders of a multinational chemical company based in Belgium). Coincidence? Two châteaux 30 km apart, one belonging to Fourniret and the other at the heart of the Dutroux affair. Could it be that two of the biggest child sex scandals of the 20th century were unfolding at the same time, only 30 km apart as the crow flies, and that they have absolutely nothing to do with each other?

On July 6, 1996, just two months before the Dutroux affair broke, gendarmes Joel Gérard and Théo Vandyck of the Brussels BSR collected the testimony of Nathalie Waeterschoot, who described the outlines of a network that had abused her in her early teens. On this occasion, she claimed to have been dragged by force between 1984 and 1988 to orgies in castles in Walloon and Flemish Brabant. Among them, she cited a castle in the Ardennes where she swore to have heard horrible children's screams in the park. Was this the Sautou estate, managed by Michel Fourniret? No investigation was carried out into this matter. The Dutroux case was stopped in its tracks to exclude anything that would have led to Dutroux's instigators.

A gruesome message

On March 1, 2002, Michel Bourlet, the public prosecutor in Neufchâteau from 1984 to 2007, in charge of the Dutroux case, received an unexpected phone call: on the banks of a river, under some fir trees, below the old mill in Nollevaux where the magistrate lived, lay the bones and clothes of a thirteen-year-old girl: Mananya Thumpong, who had disappeared almost a year earlier in Sedan, France, and murdered by... Michel Fourniret.

At that time, Fourniret was supposedly unknown to the Belgian police. It was only in 2003, after his arrest, that prosecutor Bourlet discovered that the serial killer had actually already been arrested on April 19, 2001, in Rochefort for approaching a young cyclist, two weeks before Mananya's kidnapping. Mr. Bourlet also learned that in February 2000, the Dinant prosecutor's office had a description of the vehicle and a precise description of a man who had assaulted a fourteen-year-old girl at Gedinne train station. "That's starting to be a lot of coincidences," isn't it? But let's not get ahead of ourselves. From there, to imagining that Fourniret is protected," because in connection with the Dutroux affair, it's only a small step. Let's try to take it. Two of Fourniret's victims were found in Belgium, and their cases were supposed to be investigated in Neufchâteau. First, there was Céline Saison, whose body was found on July 22, 2000, in a wood in Sugny, two months after her kidnapping in Charleville-Mézières. Then, on March 1, 2002, we saw the bones of Mananya Thumpong, who disappeared on May 5, 2001, in Sedan, discovered in Nollevaux, below the house of prosecutor Bourlet. Now, the Neufchâteau investigating judge appointed to take these two cases is no stranger... He's even a celebrity in Belgium: Jean-Marc Connerotte is the judge who was very quickly removed from the Dutroux case when his investigation reports revealed names from the Belgian elite, participants in the pedocriminal games organized by Nihoul, for which Dutroux played the role of "supplier of fresh meat."

Hardly dismissed by the Kingdom of Belgium, whose foundations are shaken by the Dutroux affair, Judge Connerotte is supported by the population. The White March brings together more than 300,000 people in the streets of Brussels to demand the protection of children and the establishment of the truth in the Dutroux affair. Having been dismissed from the investigation, Connerotte remained a judge in Neufchâteau. Naturally, after Fourniret's arrest, he and his investigators were to be in charge of the Céline Saison and Mananya Thumpong cases. They intended to search Fourniret's home, but this investigative act escaped their control. He was finally entrusted to Dinant investigating judge Bernard Claude, and the latter flatly refused to allow Judge Connerotte to investigate! From then on, he became—as in the Dutroux affair—a mere spectator, discovering in the press the developments in an investigation that should have been referred to him... What else were they afraid Connerotte would discover, and what else would have to be kept secret?

"My daughter's case was sabotaged!" she believes. "It was also a power struggle. The police couldn't stand for me to interfere in their investigation. But how could they trust me? I learned that in Namur, there was a café whose upper floor was dedicated to sexual encounters with children, and that this establishment was practically across the street from the police station... I've struggled for years, without anyone helping me... I'm trying to survive in this hodgepodge of people involved, of lies... What do you want me to do? I can't do anything! I can't take it anymore... - Elizabeth Brichet's mother, Marie-Noelle Bouzet.

Michel Fourniret and the "Black Water" sect

Was he himself also in contact with a pedophile sect? The answer, again, is yes. After investigation, this information is factual and indisputable. From 1991 to 2003, it has been established that Michel Fourniret counted among his closest friends a former priest convicted of pedophilia, who suddenly transformed into a guru leading a sect. In an unpublished letter dated October 30, 2014, to which the courts have not yet had access, these are the terms in which the serial killer introduces this friend, revealing an obvious bond of subordination: "I was fulfilling the wish of the pious priest as best I could," wrote Michel Fourniret, addressed to his son Selim. And what was this wish? "Kill me this Christian woman," the gravedigger adds bluntly. It remains to identify this man of the Church of whom Michel Fourniret speaks. Everyone seems to have forgotten, but some information on this subject has already been published in the Belgian press, establishing a direct link between the "ogre" and the person who commissioned him to grant his wish. Indeed, on April 11, 2005, a Belgian legal columnist, the late Marc Metdepenningen, published an article in the daily newspaper Le Soir based on specific information provided by the District Judicial Service (SJA) of Dinant. It revealed that Michel Fourniret was close to a former Dominican priest in the early 1990s, who later became the guru of "Noire Eau," a sect established in Libin, Belgium, where its enlightened followers lived together. The press has always presented this friend of Michel Fourniret in a minimalist manner under the abbreviation A.T. At the end of our investigation, we were able to formally identify this former priest, described as the killer's "confidant." Further on, the article states that the priest in question was sentenced to dismissal from the clerical state, the heaviest sentence that the Church's justice system can impose on its own people. The reason given: his positions in favor of "sexual freedom" at the time he worked in a community center, created in Brussels by the Church of Belgium.

In 2005, Luc Balleux, Michel Fourniret's lawyer, himself confirmed that his client had increased his contacts with followers of the "Noire Eau" sect, which preyed on children and advocated, it is said, promiscuous intercourse. Le Soir reported in 2005 that Fourniret was seduced by Noire Eau on the pretext that it was frequented, in particular, by children of followers. Coincidence again: Gaetan Evrart, the Fourniret's neighbor in Belgium, confided that he and Monique Olivier were formerly members of a choir that gave religious recitals in Anloy, a section of the commune of Libin, where the sect governed by the former pedophile priest, A. T., the master of Noire Eau, was located. They would travel there together by car. However, Monique Olivier did not sing, the neighbor confided, confused. I never heard the sound of her voice. A statement immediately confirmed by Selim Fourniret: "Moreover, Monique wasn't even Catholic, let alone a believer," he said. In fact, why would Monique Olivier, without faith or a voice, go and pretend to be a choir singer in Libin, if not to act as a bearer of messages for the guru? "Monique Fourniret had been struck by the beauty of the songs," Gaëtan E. prefers to believe. For his wife, Bénédicte, it was more of a tactic to blend into the background. "What if the choir had been just a cover to conceal trafficking with the guru A.T.?''

Unsurprisingly, the leader of Noire Eau is unfavorably known to the police. He was convicted in 1990 for "keeping a brothel and illegally practicing medicine." At the end of the trial, Michel Fourniret's friend was sentenced in Neufchâteau and then... acquitted by the Liège Court of Appeal. Round two in 1994: the self-proclaimed orgasm therapist was denounced by a teenage girl, as well as a girl under ten, who claimed to be victims of his deviant sexual theories, based on organ massage sexual relations and promiscuous copulation." He is officially accused of having used massage sessions to satisfy his urges, imposing both violently and by surprise sexual relations and touching on minors. In 1996, A.T. was sentenced to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, by the Neufchâteau court. Rather than serve his sentence, the guru appears to have fled to France. Despite his conviction for rape of minors, the pedophile A.T. was invited, on March 1, 2013, to express his crazy ideas on Radio Courtoisie in a program devoted to... poetry! As insane as it may seem, Michel Fourniret's pedophile friend is then presented as a philosopher and therapist. "In passing, the pedophile guru, under poetic cover, reveals a crucial piece of information: I lived in the Ardennes for fifteen years," he says. Besides Belgium, there is another geographical proximity to Michel Fourniret. According to our research, A. T. died on November 24, 2013, at the age of seventy-eight in Audes, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. His wife, Raymonde, also died the same year, in 2013. They took any secrets that linked them to Michel Fourniret to the grave.

In 2005, the Belgian public prosecutor, Arnoud d'Aspremont Lynden, indicated that, while the contacts of the Ardennes ogre were known and demonstrated his deviance, this led to nothing concrete and did not constitute a preferred lead. What if the judge had been mistaken? In the 1980s and 1990s, Fourniret, far from being a recluse, evolved in the heart of paedophile environments where he regularly encountered individuals who were, to say the least, ambiguous. However, we must go back even further to identify the first influences that shaped the psychotic personality we know today.

(Source: Karl Zero L envers Des affaires Magazine May July 2021)

"Monique Olivier and Michel Fourniret are presented as wealthy sympathizers of the dissolved group Action Directe"

Very interesting!

Something to think about. From my deleted blog:

"Who were the "crazy Brabant Killers" (also known as Bende van Nijvel) who left behind 28 corpses? Well, they were some unidentified bandits who in 1982 began committing bloodless but brutal thefts - first they stole shotguns, stole cars, robbed a grocery store and shot a policeman. Finally, they attacked the shop of the gunsmith Daniel Dekaise (the shop still exists today and has some pretty interesting things in his stock). Dekaise was a talented craftsman whose weapons were bought by policemen, gendarmes and hunters, and even somehow his tools of violence ended up in the hands of leftists from the French Action Directe. One of Dekaise's clients was a member of the Brussels BOB (a special brigade in the gendarmerie), was fired from his job and later arrested as a suspect in the murder of Juan Mendez - an engineer from the very large arms company FN Herstal, who was responsible for selling weapons to South America. Another client of Dekaise was another gendarme, Bouhouche - we will look at him more closely." (Bouhouche is the loose end connecting terrorism and pedos if we can believe Regina's testimony and her book)

Baudouin Dernicourt (policeman who "verified" Regina Louf's testimony)

"Was he up to the task? Absolutely! Three things tell us that. At some point during the investigation at the Neufchâteau police station, a rumor began to circulate that Dernicourt belonged to the neo-Nazi group Westland New Post and had taken part in shooting exercises in the Bois de la Houssière. This is the same forest where the gendarmes-bandits Bouhouche and Beijer, who collaborated with the WNP, trained, and the same place where the car of the Brabant killers was found. Dernicourt responded to the rumors with lawsuits.

Secondly, Dernicourt was very interested in the theft of 816 kilograms of dynamite from the Scouffleny quarry in Ecaussines on the night of 2 to 3 June 1984. The dynamite was stolen by CCC terrorists and they carried out 27 attacks between the end of 1984 and the end of 1985. Shortly after the theft of the dynamite, Dernicourt and a friend are seen in Ecaussines. They parked their car very close to the quarry and seemed to be watching the police work. “It was undoubtedly due to his passion for the great crime mysteries of the time,” said one of his old friends. Oh yes, that is fascinating. Let us also note that the CCC somehow became active during the lull in the Brabant killers’ attacks. And let us also note that the CCC shared the dynamite with the people from Action Directe."

"The CCC, or Cellules Communistes Combattantes, was founded by Pierre Carette. It was a communist terrorist group originating from a leftist printing house founded by Carette in 1979. This in turn transformed into the Ligne Rouge collective, which was founded by a group of people outraged by the arrest of terrorists from the German RAF. In 1982, Carette met Frédéric Oriach, a French Maoist, communist theoretician and founder of the terrorist organization NAPAP, who introduced him to Jean-Marc Rouillan and Nathalie Ménigon, the founders of Action Directe. And as often happens to terrorists, the CCC was immediately infiltrated by the secret police. What an unfortunate coincidence! And I don't mean that the Maoists from NAPAP had members like Christian Harbulot - he later became the director of the school dealing with economic intelligence, the École de Guerre Économique, and advised the French general staff.

From the very beginning, probably since the printing house, the Sûreté de l'Etat's mole was the printer Maurice Appelmans. In addition, the same printer was also a secret service informant in the Pour magazine. Michel Dufrane, who was an inspector supervising the Belgian secret service Sûreté de l'Etat, claimed that Appelmans had shown his officers places where they could set fires. Very interesting, because Pour was set on fire by nazis from the WNP. But maybe it will become more understandable if we learn more about the communists' activities. During a gunruning travels to Switzerland, which Carette went on with a member of his group named Marc De Laever back in 1979, both were arrested and then quickly released, which was strange. Even stranger was the fact that in 1982 De Laever suddenly changed from a communist into a Nazi and became a member of the National Socialist Action Front (with gay nazi Michael Kühnen as the leader). And the strangest thing is that the already quoted newspaper De Morgen wrote that De Laever could have known something more about the assassination of General Alexander Haig in 1979 (later people from the German Red Army Faction were blamed for it). Well, Paul Latinus' mother testified that her son worked for an organization controlled by General Haig. I wonder what organization it was since Haig was the head of NATO before Latinus' death?"

"The attack on the Vielsalm barracks was known before it happened. Christine Van Hees told her friend about it. She could have known. She was dating some commando, she took part in orgies. She told others about the attack on Vielsalm. That's what Serge Clooth, who heard it from Alain Lenglet, testified to the police. Clooth said that they killed her to silence her, that it was a political matter. He also gave 11 other versions of her murder, including murder by Satanists. But what if... all 11 versions are true. After all, Regina Louf also testified about the murder in the mushroom farm. It was some guy nicknamed Mich, a lawyer with connections to politicians and a mustachioed kidnapper of teenagers. After all, Thierry D. also testified, saying something about a political assassination and the far right. But that was before Thierry D. became a doorman at the Dolo club…

On Sunday, May 13, 1984, shortly after midnight, someone attacked the barracks in Vielsalm. During the attack, the soldier Carl Freches was seriously wounded after being shot several times (some say he later died). The three attackers had previously overpowered a guard, and after a shootout and clearing out the arsenal, they disappeared with twenty FAL rifles, five Vigneron submachine guns, three Lee-Enfield rifles and a FALO machine gun. On August 23, 1985, the judicial police searched the apartment at Landhuisjesstraat 73 in Uccle. They found a FAL rifle and a FALO machine gun – both from the thefts in Vielsalm. The apartment is also full of fingerprints belonging to Nathalie Ménigon, Jean-Marc Rouillan, Joëlle Aubron and Georges Cipriani, left-wing terrorists from the French Action Directe. A fragment of another fingerprint may have belonged to Chantal Paternostre, a Belgian anarchist from the FRAP. In 1987, another gun was recovered in France from Vielsalm after the arrest of the Action Directe leadership."

"After the attack on Vielsalm, Bertrand Sassoye, a key figure in the CCC, hides in the house of Elizabeth Bové, who, as far as we know, was an agent of the Belgian secret service. She was in turn the wife of Antoine Delsaut, who was also an agent of the secret service and a friend of Jean Bultot. Bultot was a prison director who borrowed weapons from Delsaut as a member of the same shooting club and tried to borrow a submachine gun from him the day before the massacre in Alast by the Brabant killers."

Gladio guys and US army prepared mockup-attack on the same day when CCC attacked Vielsalm barracks.

@Cletus Please share the links! 🙏

I did not know about this. But not surprised one bit :(

I am very interested in the backgrounds of the victims and their families. Prosecutors always described these killings as ''assassinations.''