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Michel Fourniret

1942 - 2021

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Michel Paul Fourniret (4 April 1942 – 10 May 2021) was a French serial killer who confessed to killing 12 people in France and Belgium between 1987 and 2003. After he was arrested in June 2003 for the attempted kidnapping of a teenage girl in Ciney, Fourniret confessed in 2004 to killing nine people, eight females and one male, having been informed on by his then-wife, Monique Pierrette Olivier (born 31 October 1948). Fourniret was convicted of seven of these murders on 28 May 2008 and sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, while Olivier was given life with a minimum term of 28 years for complicity. In February 2018, Fourniret confessed to killing two more women. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Fourniret is the 102nd most popular extremist (down from 56th in 2019), the 1,898th most popular biography from France (down from 1,241st in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Michel Fourniret ranks 102 out of 283. Before him are James Earl Ray, Johann Rattenhuber, Wilhelm Voigt, Gary Ridgway, Vincenzo Peruggia, and Monika Ertl. After him are Matija Gubec, Armin Meiwes, Bobby Joe Long, Ma Barker, Hermine Braunsteiner, and Oskar Gröning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Michel Fourniret ranks 157. Before him are Vladimir Bukovsky, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, John McLaughlin, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Pascal Couchepin, and Gottfried John. After him are Sigfried Held, Takao Nishiyama, Rose Francine Rogombé, Mario Terán, Silvia Federici, and Karen Grassle. Among people deceased in 2021, Michel Fourniret ranks 120. Before him are Franco Battiato, Djivan Gasparyan, Dušan Ivković, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Gottfried Böhm, and Leopoldo Luque. After him are Lars Vilks, Dean Stockwell, Luis del Sol, Vicente Fernández, Helen McCrory, and Mira Furlan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Fourniret ranks 1,898 out of 6,770. Before him are Benedict Joseph Labre (1748), Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610), Margaret of France, Queen of England (1282), Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1604), and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838). After him are Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761), Robert Desnos (1900), Alexandre Guilmant (1837), Adrien Manglard (1695), Phillipe de Plessis (1165), and Herleva (1003).

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Among EXTREMISTS In France

Among extremists born in France, Michel Fourniret ranks 6. Before him are Gilles de Rais (1405), Robert-François Damiens (1715), Henri Désiré Landru (1869), Jean II, Duke of Alençon (1409), and Madame de Brinvilliers (1630). After him are Jacques Mesrine (1936), Édouard Vaillant (1840), Zacarias Moussaoui (1968), and Yvan Colonna (1960).

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