1942 - Today
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 to killing nine people — eight females and one male — in 2004, 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
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Fourniret has received more than 608,469 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Fourniret is the 95th most popular extremist (up from 97th in 2019), the 2,035th most popular biography from France (up from 2,190th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Extremist.
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Among extremists, Michel Fourniret ranks 95 out of 205. Before him are Delphine LaLaurie, Robert Hansen, Kang Kek Iew, Joachim Kroll, Gary Ridgway, and Pedro López. After him are Sirhan Sirhan, Horst Mahler, Charles Whitman, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Andrew Cunanan, and Frank Nitti.
1787 - 1849
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 89
1939 - 2014
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 90
1942 - 2020
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 91
1933 - 1991
HPI: 66.67
Rank: 92
1949 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 93
1948 - Present
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 94
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 95
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 96
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 97
1941 - 1966
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 98
1895 - 1916
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 99
1969 - 1997
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 100
1886 - 1943
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 101
Among people born in 1942, Michel Fourniret ranks 153. Before him are Takao Nishiyama, Frank Zane, Piers Courage, Bill Conti, Rupert Sheldrake, and Jean-Pierre Jabouille. After him are Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Christopher A. Sims, Silvia Federici, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Gemma Jones, and Robert F. Engle.
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 147
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 148
1942 - 1970
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 149
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 150
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 151
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 152
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 153
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 154
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 155
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 156
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 157
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 158
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 159
Among people born in France, Michel Fourniret ranks 2,035 out of 5,234. Before him are Yo-Yo Ma (1955), Hubert Lyautey (1854), Natalia Pavlovna Paley (1905), Adela of Normandy (1065), Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727), and François Coppée (1842). After him are François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1644), Jean Prouvé (1901), John III, Duke of Brittany (1286), Phillipe de Plessis (1165), René Fonck (1894), and Paul Nizan (1905).
1955 - Present
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 2,029
1854 - 1934
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 2,030
1905 - 1981
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 2,031
1065 - 1137
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 2,032
1727 - 1794
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 2,033
1842 - 1908
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 2,034
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 2,035
1644 - 1730
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 2,036
1901 - 1984
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 2,037
1286 - 1341
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 2,038
1165 - 1209
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 2,039
1894 - 1953
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 2,040
1905 - 1940
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 2,041
Among extremists born in France, Michel Fourniret ranks 7. Before him are Gilles de Rais (1405), Madame de Brinvilliers (1630), Robert-François Damiens (1715), Henri Désiré Landru (1869), Jean II, Duke of Alençon (1409), and Jacques Mesrine (1936). After him are Édouard Vaillant (1840) and Zacarias Moussaoui (1968).
1405 - 1440
HPI: 79.25
Rank: 1
1630 - 1676
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 2
1715 - 1757
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 3
1869 - 1922
HPI: 69.41
Rank: 4
1409 - 1476
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 5
1936 - 1979
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 6
1942 - Present
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 7
1840 - 1915
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 8
1968 - Present
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 9