Overview

• The tribunal ordered the State to pay €50,000 to Eric Mouzin for moral prejudice and rejected his claim for material damages.
• The judgment highlights late and unclear dossier coding, a nine-year period without proper indexing, and a rapid turnover of about ten investigating magistrates.
• The court notes that limited human resources and poor coordination across parallel inquiries hindered the probe, characterizing an inaptitude of the justice service to fulfill its mission.
• The prosecutor acknowledged failings but argued there is no direct causal link between those faults and the absence of formal indictment of Michel Fourniret.
• Fourniret’s role was only recognized in 2020; he died in 2021 without trial, Estelle’s body remains missing, and Monique Olivier was convicted in 2023 for complicity.