Serial killer Michel Furnier dies in France, BFMTV reports.

The man died at the age of 79 on May 10 in a Paris hospital, where he was hospitalized on April 28. The cause of his death was not specified..

It is noted that in recent years the perpetrator suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

Michel Furnier is known by the nickname The Beast of the Ardennes. Since 1987, a man has raped and killed several girls and women in France and Belgium. In 2008 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. At the same time, the court found the 59-year-old wife of a maniac involved in four episodes of murders and sentenced her to 28 years in prison..

In total, Furnire confessed to eleven crimes and was convicted of eight of them..