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− | 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}} | + | 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 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> | 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> |
Revision as of 23:08, 20 September 2022
![]() The cellar used by Marc Dutroux for imprisoning children | |
Date | - 1990s |
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Location | Belgium |
Exposed by | Joël van der Reijden |
Interest of | Conspiracy Dossiers |
Interests | Michel Nihoul |
Subpage | •Dutroux Affair/Premature death |
Description | A 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. He continued to insist that he was part of a European wide VIPaedophile ring including senior politicians, police officers and businessmen.[1][2][3][4][5]
Contents
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.[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 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.[7]
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.
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 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.[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 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 question if all failures can 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
Joël van der Reijden published Beyond The Dutroux Affair on his on his ISGP website[19], which puts the events in a wider context.
Cover-up
Commercially-controlled media has kept a near total silence on the deeper connections and implications of the issue and treats Joël van der Reijden's research as a third rail topic. As of August 2019, Wikipedia had a Mark Dutroux page, but did not have a separate page for the affair.
Premature deaths
- Full article: Dutroux Affair/Premature death
- Full article: Dutroux Affair/Premature death
A high number of people have died suspicious deaths in connection to the affair. The media in Europe reported about these deaths, but on a very limited scale.
Release of Marc Dutroux
In 2019 the early release of M. Dutroux was discussed by Belgium's sentencing court.[20][21]
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)
Related Quotation
Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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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 |
References
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1337761/Belgium-accused-of-cover-up-in-Dutroux-inquiry.html
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview
- ↑ http://archive.today/2022.08.22-193726/https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30136741.html
- ↑ http://archive.today/2022.08.22-022511/https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30150345.html
- ↑ http://archive.today/2022.08.22-023717/https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-10109369.html
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20170522095916/https://steemit.com/history/@rebelskum/the-dutroux-nightmare-chapter-i-a-historical-introduction-to-the-dutroux-affair
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20160104033141/http://archives.lesoir.be/les-parties-fines-et-les-noms-du-commissaire-marnette-p_t-19970306-Z0DE95.html
- ↑ http://archive.today/2020.06.12-234634/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_March
- ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278108591_The_White_March_in_Belgium_October_1996_A_spectacular_but_ephemeral_mass_movement
- ↑ http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2iSQ5ni6A70/Stezew9fF9I/AAAAAAAABhE/HEgmO1NopX8/s1600-h/1996'12'28'Soir'UNE'Ann%C3%A9NoirMarchBlanch.jpg saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ 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
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jan/25/worlddispatch.dutroux
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21498535
- ↑ https://www.humanite.fr/node/304250
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210316153720/https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30140605.html
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3772951.stm
- ↑ 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/
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Beyond the Dutroux Affair by Joel Van der Reijden - ISGP website
- ↑ https://www.euronews.com/2019/10/27/explainer-paedophile-marc-dutroux-and-the-horror-case-that-united-a-divided-belgium
- ↑ 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/