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The '''Dutroux Affair''' centres upon the person of [[Marc Dutroux]], convicted of multiple charges of [[abduction]], [[rape]] and [[murder]] of children. He continued to insist that he was part of a European wide [[VIPaedophile]] ring including senior [[politician]]s, [[police officers]] and [[businessmen]].<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1337761/Belgium-accused-of-cover-up-in-Dutroux-inquiry.html</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview</ref>
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The '''Dutroux Affair''' centres upon the person of [[Marc Dutroux]], convicted of multiple charges of [[abduction]], [[rape]] and [[murder]] of children in [[Belgium]]. [[Marc Dutroux|Dutroux]] insists that he was part of a European wide [[VIPaedophile]] ring including senior [[politician]]s, [[police officers]] and [[businessmen]].<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1337761/Belgium-accused-of-cover-up-in-Dutroux-inquiry.html</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview</ref><ref>http://archive.today/2022.08.22-193726/https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30136741.html</ref><ref>http://archive.today/2022.08.22-022511/https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30150345.html</ref><ref>http://archive.today/2022.08.22-023717/https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-10109369.html</ref>
  
 
==Official narrative==
 
==Official narrative==
Marc Dutroux did all of it alone and was not part of any bigger network that served the elite of the country.
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[[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==
 
==Precedents in Belgium==
 
===The Pinon Affair===
 
===The Pinon Affair===
Before the first arrest of Marc Dutroux, hints that a pedophile ring operated in Belgium's political circles had already been made public. In 1979 Dr. [[André Pinon]], a psychoanalyst from Brussels, would be told by his own wife that she had been forced to participate in orgies for Belgium's political elite. Members of this elite group included [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]], [[Guy Mathot]], [[Ado Blaton]], state police general [[Fernand Beaurir]] and other politicians as high up as [[Prince Albert II]] of Belgium who went on to become King.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20170522095916/https://steemit.com/history/@rebelskum/the-dutroux-nightmare-chapter-i-a-historical-introduction-to-the-dutroux-affair</ref>
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Before the first arrest of [[Marc Dutroux]], hints that a pedophile ring operated in Belgium's political circles had already been made public. In 1979 Dr [[André Pinon]], a psychoanalyst from [[Brussels]], would be told by his own wife that she had been forced to participate in orgies for [[Belgium]]'s political elite. Members of this elite group included [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]], [[Guy Mathot]], [[Ado Blaton]], state police general [[Fernand Beaurir]] and other politicians as high up as [[Prince Albert II]] of Belgium who went on to become King of the Belgians.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20170522095916/https://steemit.com/history/@rebelskum/the-dutroux-nightmare-chapter-i-a-historical-introduction-to-the-dutroux-affair</ref>
  
Originally Pinon had recorded the story in order to use it against his wife for custody in an on-going divorce. Eight days later, however, Pinon said his home was burglarized. Pinon would also receive a call from an Nivelles police investigator who believed there may have been a connection between Pinon's burglary and the murder of a woman in Waterloo at around the same time.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20160104033141/http://archives.lesoir.be/les-parties-fines-et-les-noms-du-commissaire-marnette-p_t-19970306-Z0DE95.html</ref>
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Originally Pinon had recorded the story in order to use it against his wife for custody in an on-going divorce. Eight days later, however, Pinon said his home was burglarised. Pinon would also receive a call from a Nivelles police investigator who believed there may have been a connection between Pinon's burglary and the murder of a woman in Waterloo at around the same time.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20160104033141/http://archives.lesoir.be/les-parties-fines-et-les-noms-du-commissaire-marnette-p_t-19970306-Z0DE95.html</ref>
  
Later in [[1981]] Pinon would approached by yet another woman who claimed to have participated in orgies for Belgium's political elite. This particular woman had been present at an orgy where two children had been murdered. Pinon, together with [[Jean-Claude Garot]] of the Belgium newspaper [[Pour]], recorded these conversations in secret. Soon after the offices of Pour would be burned down by arsonists. Pinon would hand his copies of these recordings over to the federal police of Belgium. At this time Pinon was also told that police were in possession of a tape sold for $50 million which included a politician and abuse of minors. The whereabouts of Pinon's tapes and the tapes held by Belgian police are unknown.
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Later in [[1981]] Pinon would be approached by yet another woman who claimed to have participated in orgies for Belgium's political elite. This particular woman had been present at an orgy where two children had been murdered. Pinon, together with [https://pour.press/author/jean-claude-garot/ Jean-Claude Garot of the Belgian newspaper ''Pour'',] recorded these conversations in secret. Soon after the offices of [https://pour.press/ ''Pour''] would be burned down by arsonists. Pinon would hand his copies of these recordings over to the federal police of Belgium. At this time Pinon was also told that police were in possession of a tape sold for $50 million which included a politician and abuse of minors. The whereabouts of Pinon's tapes and the tapes held by Belgian police are unknown.
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[[File:White march belgium.png|thumb|Picture credit [[AFP]] - By some estimates up to 400,000 people gathered in Brussels in 1996 to protest the injustice and incompetence that was involved in the case, significant for a country with around 10 million citizens at the time.<ref>http://archive.today/2020.06.12-234634/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_March</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278108591_The_White_March_in_Belgium_October_1996_A_spectacular_but_ephemeral_mass_movement</ref><ref>http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2iSQ5ni6A70/Stezew9fF9I/AAAAAAAABhE/HEgmO1NopX8/s1600-h/1996'12'28'Soir'UNE'Ann%C3%A9NoirMarchBlanch.jpg saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20160305134447/http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2iSQ5ni6A70/Stezew9fF9I/AAAAAAAABhE/HEgmO1NopX8/s1600-h/1996'12'28'Soir'UNE'Ann%C3%A9NoirMarchBlanch.jpg Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.is/1fz6 Archive.is]</ref>|right]]
  
 
==Light sentencing at first trial==
 
==Light sentencing at first trial==
In April [[1989]], Marc Dutroux was sentenced to 13 years for abduction and rape of 5 young girls. [[Belgian Justice Minister]] [[Melchior Wathelet]] released him on parole in April [[1992]], having served only three years.
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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==
 
==Second Trial==
[[File:White march belgium.png|thumb|Picture credit [[AFP]] - By some estimates up to 400.000 people gathered in Brussels in 1996 to protest the injustice and incompetence that was involved in the case. Significant for a country with  around 10 million citizens at the time.<ref>http://archive.today/2020.06.12-234634/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_March</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278108591_The_White_March_in_Belgium_October_1996_A_spectacular_but_ephemeral_mass_movement</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160305134447/http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2iSQ5ni6A70/Stezew9fF9I/AAAAAAAABhE/HEgmO1NopX8/s1600-h/1996'12'28'Soir'UNE'Ann%C3%A9NoirMarchBlanch.jpg</ref>|right]]
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Judge [[Jean-Marc Connerotte]] was dismissed after he attended a fund raising dinner for the victims' families.<ref>http://archive.today/2020.08.19-183045/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/removal-of-judge-from-paedophilia-case-greeted-with-uproar-in-belgium-1.95864</ref> 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.{{cn}}
Judge [[Jean-Marc Connerotte]] was dismissed after he attended a fund raising dinner for the victims' families. 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 claim that no new evidence was brought forth after Langlois took on the case. Langlois claimed that much of the evidence gathered was unverifiable and useless in court.{{cn}}
 
  
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.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jan/25/worlddispatch.dutroux</ref>
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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.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jan/25/worlddispatch.dutroux</ref>
  
Dutroux escaped from police custody for a few hours in April 1998, but was recaptured after a massive manhunt.
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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.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21498535</ref>
 
Throughout the trial, Dutroux insisted that he was part of a Europe-wide paedophile ring including police officers, businessmen, doctors, and senior Belgian politicians.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21498535</ref>
  
The jury publicly protested the presiding judge [[Stéphane Goux]]'s handling of the debates and the victims' testimonies.<ref>https://www.humanite.fr/node/304250</ref>
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The jury publicly protested at the presiding judge [[Stéphane Goux]]'s handling of the debates and the victims' testimonies.<ref>https://www.humanite.fr/node/304250</ref>
  
 
==Police==
 
==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]];<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210316153720/https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30140605.html</ref><ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3772951.stm</ref><ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/11/the-revelations-of-wikileaks-no-4-the-haunting-case-of-a-belgian-child-killer-and-how-wikileaks-helped-crack-it/</ref><ref>https://www.alamy.com/belgian-former-police-officer-rene-michaux-r-answers-reporters-questions-after-testifying-at-the-trial-of-belgian-convicted-child-rapist-marc-dutroux-in-arlon-courthouse-southeast-belgium-may-18-2004-michaux-had-inspected-the-basement-where-dutroux-hid-girls-to-sexually-abuse-them-although-michaux-acknowledged-hearing-the-voices-of-girls-he-failed-to-find-the-trap-door-to-the-cell-where-they-were-being-held-the-trial-of-dutroux-his-ex-wife-michelle-martin-michel-lelievre-and-michel-nihoul-for-the-abduction-and-rape-of-six-girls-and-the-murder-of-four-of-them-in-the-mid-1990s-has-image381453793.html</ref> while some people question if all failures can be attributed to incompetence.{{cn}}  
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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]];<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210316153720/https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30140605.html</ref><ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3772951.stm</ref><ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/11/the-revelations-of-wikileaks-no-4-the-haunting-case-of-a-belgian-child-killer-and-how-wikileaks-helped-crack-it/</ref><ref>https://www.alamy.com/belgian-former-police-officer-rene-michaux-r-answers-reporters-questions-after-testifying-at-the-trial-of-belgian-convicted-child-rapist-marc-dutroux-in-arlon-courthouse-southeast-belgium-may-18-2004-michaux-had-inspected-the-basement-where-dutroux-hid-girls-to-sexually-abuse-them-although-michaux-acknowledged-hearing-the-voices-of-girls-he-failed-to-find-the-trap-door-to-the-cell-where-they-were-being-held-the-trial-of-dutroux-his-ex-wife-michelle-martin-michel-lelievre-and-michel-nihoul-for-the-abduction-and-rape-of-six-girls-and-the-murder-of-four-of-them-in-the-mid-1990s-has-image381453793.html</ref> while some people questioned if all failures could be attributed to incompetence.{{cn}}  
  
 
[[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]].
 
[[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==
 
==Exposure==
[[Joël van der Reijden]] published ''Beyond The Dutroux Affair'' on his on his [[ISGP|ISGP website]]<ref>[https://isgp-studies.com/belgian-x-dossiers-of-the-dutroux-affair Beyond the Dutroux Affair by Joel Van der Reijden - ISGP website]</ref>, which puts the events in a wider context.
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[[File:Marc Dutroux.jpg|right|thumb|380px]]
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[[Joël van der Reijden]] published ''Beyond The Dutroux Affair'' on his [[ISGP|ISGP website]]<ref>[https://isgp-studies.com/belgian-x-dossiers-of-the-dutroux-affair Beyond the Dutroux Affair by Joel Van der Reijden - ISGP website]</ref>, which puts the events in a wider context.
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===Young female victims===
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These young females are confirmed to have been victims of Dutroux:<ref>https://archive.ph/20170830231255/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1337761/Belgium-accused-of-cover-up-in-Dutroux-inquiry.html</ref><ref>https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/hno19022004_049</ref><ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/11/the-revelations-of-wikileaks-no-4-the-haunting-case-of-a-belgian-child-killer-and-how-wikileaks-helped-crack-it/</ref><ref>Timothy W. Ryback (15 March 1997). "Crying out loud". ''The Independent Magazine''. pp. 26–30.</ref><ref>https://archive.ph/20170414213202/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1455896/Two-girls-were-buried-alive-by-Dutroux-Belgian-court-is-told.html</ref>
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* Sylvie D., 11, 17 October 1985, abducted and raped.
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* Maria V., 19, 17 October 1985, abducted and raped.
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* Catherine B., 18, 17 January 1986, abducted and raped.
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* Élisabeth G., 15, 18 December 1985, abducted and raped. Dutroux took videos and pictures of her.
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* Axelle D., 14 December 1985, abducted and raped.
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* Mélissa Russo, 8, 24 June 1995, abducted and imprisoned. Died of starvation and dehydration, found in Sars-la-Buissiere.
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* Julie Lejeune, 8, 24 June 1995, abducted and imprisoned. Died of starvation and dehydration, found in Sars-la-Buissiere.
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* An Marchal, 17, 23 August 1995, abducted, imprisoned, and raped. Killed by being buried alive after being wrapped in plastic, found August 1996.
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* Eefje Lambrecks, 19, 23 August 1995, abducted, imprisoned, and raped. Killed by being buried alive after being wrapped in plastic, found August 1996.
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* Sabine Dardenne, 12, 28 May 1996, abducted, chained by neck for 79 days, and raped repeatedly, according to Vos.
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* Laetitia Delhez, 14, 9 August 1996, abducted, chained to bed, and raped for four days.
  
 
==Cover-up==
 
==Cover-up==
{{CCM}} has kept a near total silence on the issue and treats [[Joël van der Reijden]]'s research as a [[third rail issue]]. As of August 2019, [[Wikipedia]] had a Mark Dutroux page, but did not have a separate page for the affair.
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{{CCM}} has kept a near total silence on the deeper connections and implications of the issue and treated [[Joël van der Reijden]]'s research as a [[third rail topic]].
  
==Release of Marc Dutroux==
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===Premature deaths===
In 2019 the early release of M. Dutroux was discussed by Belgium's sentencing court.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20160104033141/http://archives.lesoir.be/les-parties-fines-et-les-noms-du-commissaire-marnette-p_t-19970306-Z0DE95.html</ref><ref>https://www.euronews.com/2019/10/27/explainer-paedophile-marc-dutroux-and-the-horror-case-that-united-a-divided-belgium</ref><ref>https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/74182/protests-demonstration-black-march-against-early-release-of-infamous-belgian-paedophile-dutroux-take-to-the-streets-on-sunday-brussels-michel-lelievre/</ref>
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{{FA|Dutroux Affair/Premature death}}
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More than twenty people have died [[suspicious deaths]] in connection to the Dutroux affair:
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* Bernard Weinstein
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* Jean Paul-Taminiau
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* Simon Poncelet
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* Joseph Toussaint
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* Christiaan Coanrads
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* José Steppe
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* Brigitte Genard
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* Anna Konjevoda
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* Gina Pardaens
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* Sandra Claeys
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* Nadège Renard
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* Alexandre Gosselin
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* Guy Goebels
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* Bruno Tagliaferro
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* Francois Reyskens
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* Michel Piro
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* Gérard Vannesse
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* Fabienne Jaupart
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* Hubert Massa
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* Grégory Antipine
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* Jean-Jacques Feront
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* Bernard Routmond
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* Marie-Louise Henrotte
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* Christoph Vanhexe
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* Pierre-Paul "Pepe" De Rycke
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* Philippe Deleuze
  
===Premature deaths===
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The media in [[Europe]] reported about these deaths, but on a very limited scale.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview "Belgium's silent heart of darkness"]</ref>
[[Olenka Frenkiel]] reported in [[2002]] in ''[[The Guardian]]'', that "Since 1995, there have been 20 unexplained deaths of potential witnesses connected with Dutroux."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview</ref> In 2001 the German public-service television [[ZDF]] broadcasted a documentary about the dying of witnesses connected to the Dutroux affair.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuPkoGGm_xQ Marc Dutroux and the dead witnesses (Marc Dutroux und die toten Zeugen)]</ref> According to that investigation, the number is as high as 27.<ref>https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/fall-marc-dutroux-der-alptraum-endet-nie-a-735731.html</ref>
 
  
Among the dead are:<ref>https://verschwoerungstheorien.fandom.com/de/wiki/Marc_Dutroux saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20191220014130/https://verschwoerungstheorien.fandom.com/de/wiki/Marc_Dutroux Archive.org] and [http://archive.is/kIJ2n Archive.is]</ref>
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==Discussing release of Dutroux==
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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.
  
*July 4, 1995: [[Alexandre Gosselin]], Bernard Weinstein's neighbor;
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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.<ref>https://www.euronews.com/2019/10/27/explainer-paedophile-marc-dutroux-and-the-horror-case-that-united-a-divided-belgium</ref><ref>[https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/74182/protests-demonstration-black-march-against-early-release-of-infamous-belgian-paedophile-dutroux-take-to-the-streets-on-sunday-brussels-michel-lelievre/ "Demonstration to be held Sunday in Brussels against infamous Belgian paedophile Dutroux possible early release"]</ref>
*August 25, 1995: [[Guy Goebels]], gendarme investigating the disappearance of Julie and Melissa, committed suicide in his apartment with his service weapon;
 
*November 1995: [[Bernard Weinstein]], Dutroux's accomplice, poisoned by Dutroux;
 
*November 5, 1995: [[Bruno Tagliaferro]], poisoned scrap dealer who wanted to testify against Dutroux;
 
*April 2, 1995: [[Jean-Pol Taminiau]] disappears, he had rented a garage near a hangar rented by Dutroux. One year after the disappearance a foot of Taminiau is found;
 
*July 26, 1995: [[Francois Reyskens]], run over by a train shortly before a hearing;
 
*February 21, 1996: [[Simon Poncelet]], a policeman investigating the Dutroux car-jacking milieu, was shot dead in his office during the night shift;
 
*August 22, 1996: [[Michel Binon]], acquaintance of [[Marc Dutroux]], suicide;
 
*December 5, 1996: [[Michel Poiro]], nightclub owner who was acquainted with [[Michel Nihoul]], shot dead before a meeting with the parents of Julie and Melissa;
 
*March 5, 1997: [[Joseph Toussaint]], confessor of [[Michelle Martin]], died of a heart attack;
 
*March 7, 1997: [[Christian Coenraets]], inmate who was supposed to testify about his relationship with Weinstein but fled the day before testifying, is found dead a month later;
 
*April 25, 1997: [[José Steppe]], dies two days before he was supposed to testify to a journalist and the gendarmerie;
 
*July 2, 1997: [[Virginie Pinon]], almost-victim of Dutroux, dies of mucoviscidose;
 
*November 16, 1997: [[Gérard Vannesse]], Gendarme officer and one of the runners of Nihoul, dies of a thrombosis;
 
*April 5, 1998: [[Brigitte Jenart]], a friend of [[Michel Nihoul]], commits suicide;
 
*April 7, 1998: [[Anna Konjevoda]] is found dead in the Maas (a river), the body shows signs of beatings and strangulation;
 
*November 15, 1998: [[Gina Pardaens]], social worker who looks after victims of a child pornography ring, dies in a traffic accident after receiving death threats;
 
*December 18, 1998: [[Fabienne Jaupart]], wife of [[Bruno Tagliaferro]], burns to death in her bed;
 
*July 13, 1999: [[Hubert Massa]], a public prosecutor commits suicide;
 
*August 15, 1999: [[Grégory Antipine]], police officer, commits suicide by hanging;
 
*November 4, 1999: [[Sandra Claeys]], [[Michel Lelièvre]]'s ex-girlfriend commits suicide;
 
*March 1, 2001: [[Jean-Jacques Feront]], paedophile hunter who dies of a heart attack;
 
*March 28, 2001: [[Nadège Renard]], ex-girlfriend of [[Jean-Pol Taminiau]], dies in a car accident;
 
*May 17, 2001: [[Pierre-Paul "Pepe" De Rycke]], acquaintance of [[Michel Nihoul]], commits suicide;
 
  
 
==Parallels==
 
==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.
 
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.
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==External links==
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* [[Consortiumnews]] ([[Elizabeth Vos]]) - [https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/11/the-revelations-of-wikileaks-no-4-the-haunting-case-of-a-belgian-child-killer-and-how-wikileaks-helped-crack-it/ The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 4—The Haunting Case of a Belgian Child Killer and How WikiLeaks Helped Crack It]
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20011112064428/http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b2003ac2eec.htm Some Post-Christian Realities], by [[Alexandra Colen]] (1997) (from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200805020426/https://humanlifereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1997spring.pdf original])
  
 
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The cellar used by Marc Dutroux for imprisoning children
Date- 1990s
LocationBelgium
Exposed byJoël van der Reijden
Interest ofConspiracy Dossiers
InterestsMichel Nihoul
SubpageDutroux Affair/Premature death
DescriptionA 1990s partial exposure of the Belgian VIPaedophile control vector.

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]

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

The Pinon Affair

Before the first arrest of Marc Dutroux, hints that a pedophile ring operated in Belgium's political circles had already been made public. In 1979 Dr André Pinon, a psychoanalyst from Brussels, would be told by his own wife that she had been forced to participate in orgies for Belgium's political elite. Members of this elite group included Paul Vanden Boeynants, Guy Mathot, Ado Blaton, state police general Fernand Beaurir and other politicians as high up as Prince Albert II of Belgium who went on to become King of the Belgians.[6]

Originally Pinon had recorded the story in order to use it against his wife for custody in an on-going divorce. Eight days later, however, Pinon said his home was burglarised. Pinon would also receive a call from a Nivelles police investigator who believed there may have been a connection between Pinon's burglary and the murder of a woman in Waterloo at around the same time.[7]

Later in 1981 Pinon would be approached by yet another woman who claimed to have participated in orgies for Belgium's political elite. This particular woman had been present at an orgy where two children had been murdered. Pinon, together with Jean-Claude Garot of the Belgian newspaper Pour, recorded these conversations in secret. Soon after the offices of Pour would be burned down by arsonists. Pinon would hand his copies of these recordings over to the federal police of Belgium. At this time Pinon was also told that police were in possession of a tape sold for $50 million which included a politician and abuse of minors. The whereabouts of Pinon's tapes and the tapes held by Belgian police are unknown.

Picture credit AFP - By some estimates up to 400,000 people gathered in Brussels in 1996 to protest the injustice and incompetence that was involved in the case, significant for a country with around 10 million citizens at the time.[8][9][10]

Light sentencing at first trial

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.[11] 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.[12]

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.[13]

The jury publicly protested at the presiding judge Stéphane Goux's handling of the debates and the victims' testimonies.[14]

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;[15][16][17][18] 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

Marc Dutroux.jpg

Joël van der Reijden published Beyond The Dutroux Affair on his ISGP website[19], which puts the events in a wider context.

Young female victims

These young females are confirmed to have been victims of Dutroux:[20][21][22][23][24]

  • 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.
  • Mélissa Russo, 8, 24 June 1995, abducted and imprisoned. Died of starvation and dehydration, found in Sars-la-Buissiere.
  • Julie Lejeune, 8, 24 June 1995, abducted and imprisoned. Died of starvation and dehydration, found in Sars-la-Buissiere.
  • 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.

Cover-up

Commercially-controlled media has kept a near total silence on the deeper connections and implications of the issue and treated Joël van der Reijden's research as a third rail topic.

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.[25]

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.[26][27]

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.

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Related Quotation

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Klaas Bruinsma“Boys Club de Amstel ... ran by a certain Mr. Kroner [Kreuner]. A business partner of him was liquidated in the 90's, an acquaintance of de Dominee [Klaas Bruinsma], who regularly visited there. ... Getting back to Piet van Haut: This fantasy-filled caricature also brought along a certain Marc [Dutroux], later known as the Monster of Belgium. This Marc had contacts with Duscedo, of the imperium of the gentlemen Tukkers and consorts. [Incorrect, unclear sentence follows, so loosely translated:] With Charles Geerts pulling the strings.”Klaas Bruinsma
Joël van der Reijden
ISGP
2014
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