The lawyers finally goaded him into speech but he still refused to stand. It seems he doesn't like to be disturbed when he's scribbling away in his glass box.

The representatives of Fabienne Leroy's family were trying to find out about two needle marks on her forearm. In his 2004 confession he had acknowledged injecting her just once "to calm her" but there was nothing in the syringe but air.

Was he tryng to kill her by causing an embolism?

Eventually he shouted out, "Je suis en colère parce que je vous ai entendu proférer des aneries au sujet d'Estelle Mouzin."

(I'm angry because you've been talking nonsense about Estelle Mouzin).

Strange, because this young girl (abducted at the age of 9) does not feature in this trial.

The lawyer tried to force him back to the point by asking if he was practising experiments on his victims but Founiret lapsed into silence once again.