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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Fourniret has received more than 1,190,996 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Fourniret is the 94th most popular extremist (up from 95th in 2019), the 1,813th most popular biography from France (up from 2,032nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Extremist.

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  • 16

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Michel Fourniret ranks 94 out of 209. Before him are Frank Nitti, Susan Atkins, Wilhelm Voigt, Aileen Wuornos, Matija Gubec, and David Berkowitz. After him are Jacques Mesrine, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Whitey Bulger, Charles Whitman, Joachim Kroll, and Luciano Leggio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Michel Fourniret ranks 147. Before him are Linda Evans, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Felice Gimondi, Étienne Balibar, Vasily Alekseyev, and Michel Kafando. After him are Nicole Fontaine, Sigfried Held, Robert Ballard, Rei Kawakubo, Silvia Federici, and Fatma Girik. Among people deceased in 2021, Michel Fourniret ranks 142. Before him are Koichi Sugiyama, Matthew Festing, Haya Harareet, Bob Dole, Renée Simonot, and Gunnel Lindblom. After him are Leopoldo Luque, Ivan Patzaichin, Tanya Roberts, Sheldon Adelson, Verónica Forqué, and Carlos Correia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Fourniret ranks 1,813 out of 6,011. Before him are Pierre André Latreille (1762), James Louis Sobieski (1667), Alain Giresse (1952), Jean-Antoine Marbot (1754), Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807), and Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine (1428). After him are Gérard Houllier (1947), Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640), Nicole Fontaine (1942), Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (1649), Richeza of Lotharingia (995), and Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (1434).

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Among EXTREMISTS In France

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

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