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Marc Dutroux/Affair

The Dutroux Affair centres upon the person of Marc Dutroux, convicted of multiple charges of abduction, rape and murder of children in Belgium. Dutroux insists that he was part of a European wide VIPaedophile ring including senior politicians, police officers and businessmen.[1][2][3][4][5] At one point it was established that 1,300 minors disappeared in the Brussels region between 1991 and 1996.[6]

Official narrative

Marc Dutroux did all of it alone and was not part of any bigger network that served the elite of the country.

Precedents in Belgium

Full article: Belgium/VIPaedophile

Light sentencing at first trial

(Picture credit AFP) - The White March in October 1996.[7] By some estimates up to 400,000 people gathered in Brussels to protest the injustice and incompetence that was involved in the case; somewhat significant for a country with around 10 million citizens at the time.[8][9][10] According to Richard Cottrell the event was managed to relieve public pressure. Among other things, train tickets to Brussels were sold at a discount.[11]

Prefiguring events around Jeffrey Epstein, in April 1989, Marc Dutroux was sentenced lightly at his first trial. For abduction and rape of 5 young girls, Dutroux was sentenced to 13 years and Belgian Justice Minister Melchior Wathelet released him on parole in April 1992, after just three years.

Second Trial

Judge Jean-Marc Connerotte was dismissed after he attended a fund raising dinner for the victims' families.[12] His replacement, Jacques Langlois had never tried a case before and had a difficult relationship with the public prosecutor Michel Bourle. Some of the parents of the victims claimed that no new evidence was brought forward after Langlois took on the case. Langlois claimed that much of the evidence gathered was unverifiable and could not be used in court.[citation needed]

The dismissal of Connerotte and the end of the investigation resulted in October 1996 in the "White March", with an estimated 300,000 people marching on Brussels to demand a reform of Belgium's police and justice system.[13]

Dutroux escaped from police custody for a few hours in April 1998, but was recaptured after a massive manhunt.

Throughout the trial, Dutroux insisted that he was part of a Europe-wide paedophile ring including police officers, businessmen, doctors, and senior Belgian politicians.[14]

The jury publicly protested at the presiding judge Stéphane Goux's handling of the debates and the victims' testimonies.[15]

Police

The police seized several videotapes from Dutroux's house that showed him constructing the secret entrance and the dungeon where he imprisoned girls. The police [When?] reported that they never viewed the tapes because they did not have access to a machine that could play them. Many more failures would add up over time, to a considerable extent caused by the ineptitude of police officer Rene Michaux;[16][17][18][19] while some people questioned if all failures could be attributed to incompetence.[citation needed]

1995 - A police surveillance camera set up to watch Marc Dutroux was programmed to operate only from 8am-6pm so did not record his kidnapping of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks.

Exposure

The book by three crime reporters, "The X-Files: What Belgium Was Not Supposed to Know About the Dutroux Affair," published in French and Dutch in 1999, asserts that the X-witnesses were more credible than the conventional wisdom suggests in their description of an underworld of snuff movies and sadomasochist torture. These witnesses said that politicians and other highly placed members of society were involved.[20] Joël van der Reijden published Beyond The Dutroux Affair on his ISGP website[21], which puts the events in a wider context.

Victims

These young females are confirmed to have been victims of Dutroux:[22][23][24][25][26]

• Sylvie D., 11, 17 October 1985, abducted and raped;
• Maria V., 19, 17 October 1985, abducted and raped;
• Catherine B., 18, 17 January 1986, abducted and raped;
• Élisabeth G., 15, 18 December 1985, abducted and raped. Dutroux took videos and pictures of her;
• Axelle D., 14 December 1985, abducted and raped;
• An Marchal, 17, 23 August 1995, abducted, imprisoned, and raped. Killed by being buried alive after being wrapped in plastic, found August 1996;
• Eefje Lambrecks, 19, 23 August 1995, abducted, imprisoned, and raped. Killed by being buried alive after being wrapped in plastic, found August 1996;
• Sabine Dardenne, 12, 28 May 1996, abducted, chained by neck for 79 days, and raped repeatedly, according to Vos;
• Laetitia Delhez, 14, 9 August 1996, abducted, chained to bed, and raped for four days;
• • Laurent Louis has suggested in a speech before the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in the 2010s, that Mélissa Russo and Julie Lejeune were not starved to death by Michelle Martin, but raped to death;[27]
  • • Mélissa Russo, 8, 24 June 1995, abducted and imprisoned, officially died of starvation and dehydration, found in Sars-la-Buissiere.
    • Julie Lejeune, 8, 24 June 1995, abducted and imprisoned, officially died of starvation and dehydration, found in Sars-la-Buissiere.

Cover-up

Commercially-controlled media has kept a near total silence on the deeper connections and implications of the issue.

Premature deaths

Full article: Dutroux Affair/Premature death

More than twenty people have died suspicious deaths in connection to the Dutroux affair:

• Bernard Weinstein
• Jean Paul-Taminiau
• Simon Poncelet
• Joseph Toussaint
• Christiaan Coanrads
• José Steppe
• Brigitte Genard
• Anna Konjevoda
• Gina Pardaens
• Sandra Claeys
• Nadège Renard
• Alexandre Gosselin
• Guy Goebels
• Bruno Tagliaferro
• Francois Reyskens
• Michel Piro
• Gérard Vannesse
• Fabienne Jaupart
• Hubert Massa
• Grégory Antipine
• Jean-Jacques Feront
• Bernard Routmond
• Marie-Louise Henrotte
• Christoph Vanhexe
• Pierre-Paul "Pepe" De Rycke
• Philippe Deleuze

The media in Europe reported about these deaths, but on a very limited scale.[28]

Discussing release of Dutroux

In 2019 the possible early release of Marc Dutroux was discussed by Belgium's sentencing court. The meeting of the Court to assess Dutroux's current mental state and his risk of recidivism was held on 28 October 2019.

Had new expertise regarding his mental state proved convincing, his lawyers could have applied for parole for their client, previously diagnosed as a psychopath, with a possible release by 2021.[29][30]

Parallels

In 2019, the Epstein affair exposed Jeffrey Epstein to be at the centre of a VIPaedophile entrapment project. Although larger and more blatant, the case has marked parallels with the Dutroux Affair:- pattern of light sentencing, multiple failures to investigate and other deviation from standard operating procedure by public officials.

External links

• Consortiumnews (Elizabeth Vos) - The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 4—The Haunting Case of a Belgian Child Killer and How WikiLeaks Helped Crack It
• Some Post-Christian Realities, by Alexandra Colen (1997) (from the original)