Overview

• The Tribunal judiciaire de Paris is expected to deliver its decision on Wednesday on claims of faute lourde and denial of justice brought by Éric Mouzin.
• Éric Mouzin argues the authorities failed to do everything to find his daughter and labels parts of the inquiry as “amateurisme.”
• In court, the prosecutor acknowledged shortcomings in the justice service and called them a faute lourde while disputing any direct causality with the absence of charges against Michel Fourniret.
• Investigators initially pursued then dropped the Fourniret lead, and only in 2020 did Judge Sabine Khéris obtain official recognition of his role after multiple magistrates cycled through the case.
• Mouzin seeks €150,000 for material and financial losses and €200,000 for moral harm, with Estelle’s remains still missing, Fourniret dead since 2021 without trial in her case, and Monique Olivier sentenced to life in 2023 for complicity.