The Son of a Monster

Since 2008, the Fourniret affair has been devastating France and Belgium. The serial killer Michel Fourniret was sentenced to life imprisonment for a series of kidnappings, rapes and murders. His wife, Monique Olivier, was also given life imprisonment with preventive detention of twenty-eight years. Their shadows continue to hover over some thirty unsolved murders.

In 2014, the journalist Oli Porri Santoro began his investigation; and in the process, he met and befriended Selim, the only son...