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CHILDREN
IN THE NEW
WORLD ORDER
Marc Dutroux
Ran An
International Pedophile and Child Porn Ring
He was protected by Belgian police
and politicians.
Belgium is Israeli Organized Crime's
European Headquarters For Human Sex Trafficking
Belgium has a population of about
10,000,000, of which only 40,000 are Jewish.
These Two 8 Year Olds Were Used
In A Snuff Video
350,000 Belgians Protested
Governmental Corruption
The government removed a key judge and halted
Dutroux's trial.
Dutroux Had Seven Houses
Throughout Belgium
His ring kidnapped kids all over Europe
and brought them to his houses
Dutroux's Organization Held
Weekend Orgies
For Politicians And Police Officials
Russia's mob is called the Organatzia
Detroux Was Finally Brought To Trial
After 20 Years
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Summary
Marc Dutroux, a Jewish Belgian, ran a pedophile ring and
made porno/snuff movies. In 1986, Dutroux, and his wife Michele, were
arrested, sentenced to 13 years in 1989 on five charges of rape, and
paroled in 3 years.
Police re-arrest him in 1996 for kidnapping, child
pornography, murder, and child prostitution. He finally went to trial in
2004.
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Who Was Marc Dutroux?
Dutroux was a Jewish Mafia kingpin, who was believed to be in
charge of
Israeli organized crime's child trafficking
in western Europe, who also made snuff/porno movies in Belgium. He was
known to own at least seven country estates, where he made the movies
and then disposed of the bodies.
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His Accomplishes
- Benjamin Stein ---- The
money man who traveled To Tel Aviv and Moscow
- Michelle Martin ---
Wife who traveled through Europe abducting children.
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Michel Nihoul ------Nightclub
owner who handled police and politicians
- Michel Lelievre-----His
specialty was drugging and psychologically preparing children
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Timeline
1980:
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Dutroux is arrested on drug trafficking. |
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1986
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Dutroux and Michelle Martin were arrested
for kidnapping and raping five young girls. |
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1989
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Dutroux is tried and sentenced to three
years.
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1992
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He is released and buys seven estates. |
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1993
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Police claim the searched Dutroux's
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1992-1996
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His wife travels to Israel, and all over
Europe. She selected children, and the Russian/Israeli Organatzia
(organized crime syndicate) helped her kidnap them and transport them to
Belgium.
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1996
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Sabine Dardenne, 12, and Laetitia Delhez,
14, found alive in basement of house. |
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1996
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Bodies of four children found at Dutroux's
villa. |
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2004
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Dutrox and accomplishes go to trial. |
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Two 8 Year-Old Girls Starved To Death
Children were kidnapped from all over Europe and brought to the
estates, where they were psychologically prepared, and introduced to
drugs.
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Underground Cages |
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Some of the Children Whose
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Charelio Police
In September of 1996, twenty-three suspects - at least nine of whom
were police officers - were detained and questioned about their possible
complicity in the crimes and/or their negligence in investigating the
case.
Belgian state investigators were brought in, and they raided homes of
23 magistrates, politicians and police.
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Jean-Marc Connerotte
A judge, and the driving force behind the investigation. He was
threatened by the Organatzia, and the Police. Belgium's political
influence organs finally pressured the Judiciary to have him removed. He
was under 24-hour protection, and he is a marked man who INTERPOL insiders
say will be assassinated.
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This Is The Russian/Israeli Organatzia Everyone Fears
The media tried to portray this as four people that
corrupted a few police and politicians. The truth here, is that Belgium
is the Organzatzia's western
European headquarters for drugs and
pornography videos.
There were multiple houses, international contacts, and
Belgian state police and politicians involved. INTERPOL, and private
investigators worldwide, suspected Dutroux of being involved with the
disappearances of hundreds of children.
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PEDOPHILE CASE JUDGE
BREAKS DOWN IN COURT
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Arlon, Belgium
March 6, 2004
Jean-Marc Connerotte, who gave evidence in
the Dutroux trial. Picture: AFP
The Belgian judge who
saved two young girls from Marc Dutroux's pedophile dungeon has broken down in
the witness box, alleging high-level murder plots to stop his investigation into
a child-sex mafia.
Jean-Marc Connerotte was in tears on the fourth day of the trial on Thursday,
describing the bullet-proof vehicles and armed guards needed to protect him
against shadowy figures determined to stop the full truth coming out.
"Never before in Belgium has an investigating judge at the service of the king
been subjected to such pressure," he said.
"We were told by police that
(murder) contracts had been taken out against the magistrates.
As the danger mounted, emergency measures were taken." He then froze in silence
and the court was adjourned until he recovered.
He said "organised crime methods" were used to discredit his work and ensure his
inquiries ended in "judicial failure".
A hero to millions of Belgians, Judge Connerotte was removed from the Dutroux
case after he had dinner with families of the victims in October 1996: this was
deemed a conflict of interest.
The move resulted in workers going on strike and
300,000 people marching silently through Brussels
in protest.
Seven years later, some of the families are boycotting the trial, describing it
as a circus and saying the inquiry effectively shut down the moment Judge
Connerotte left.
Addressing the jury of 12 at the Arlon Palais de Justice, Judge Connerotte
relived the moment in August 1996 when his team rescued Sabine Dardenne, 12, and
Laetitia Delhez, 14, from the cage beneath Dutroux's house.
He said the girls recoiled into the cell when the heavy hidden door was pulled
open, fearing that a pedophile "band" had come to get them.
As Dutroux coaxed them out, saying there was nothing to fear, they clutched on
to him as their protector. Sabine had been held for 79 days, much of the time
chained by the neck.
Dutroux admitted this week he had raped her 20 times. He
said the plan was to hand her over to the criminal network, but he kept her
because he was "depressed".
Judge Connerotte said Dutroux displayed a "frightening professionalism" in
designing the secret cells. "Clearly they were built so they couldn't be found,"
he said.
"He had installed a ventilation system so that the odours were extracted from
above. The dogs couldn't smell the presence of the young girls."
He castigated local authorities
for failing to take action much earlier. Dutroux had been named in police files
in July 1995 as a suspect in the abduction of two eight-year-old girls more than
a year before their bodies were found on Dutroux's land.
"The sum of 150,000 francs ($A6000) was mentioned as the price for girls. I was
struck by the richness of these documents. Any magistrate should have acted the
way I did later," he said.
The girls apparently starved to
death in the dungeon while Dutroux was in prison.
In January 1996, Judge Connerotte wrote to King Albert alleging his
investigations into crime networks were being blocked because
suspects "apparently enjoyed serious
protection".
He went on to say that the "dysfunctional judiciary" was breaking down as
mafia groups took secret control
of the "key institutions of the country".
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CHILD RAPIST DENIES KIDNAP, MURDER CHARGES
March 4, 2004
Convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux denied kidnapping and killing two young
girls found buried in his garden, saying he kept them in a dungeon to protect
them from a child sex ring.
The Belgian took the stand yesterday on the third day of his trial for a string
of gruesome paedophile murders in the mid-1990s that traumatised the nation and
discredited its police and judiciary.
"I didn't want this to happen to them," the 47-year-old former electrician told
the court under questioning by presiding judge
Stephane Goux.
A convicted multiple child rapist, Dutroux is charged with the abduction and
rape of six girls and the murder of four.
In testimony at times rambling and contradictory, he told the jury that all the
crimes of which he was accused were carried out by a criminal gang based in the
city of Charleroi, which had enjoyed "police and political protection".
The last two victims survived
his arrest in 1996 and were found in a makeshift cell in a
cellar to which he had built a concealed door in a house in Marcinelle, southern
Belgium.
Dutroux denied any involvement in the kidnapping and death of eight-year-olds
Julie and Melissa, the first two girls to be abducted in July 1995, telling the
court he had found them at his home with his wife and two other men - Michel
Nihoul and Bernard Weinstein.
Asked by the judge why he had built the trap door to the cell, in which the
girls were held for months, he said: "I wanted to create a hiding place to spare
them from being sent to a prostitution ring."
He accused co-defendant Nihoul, as well as Weinstein, a Frenchman found buried
in Dutroux's garden in 1996, of planning to use the children for prostitution.
"When I learned from Bernard Weinstein that it was for paedophilia, I didn't
even know what paedophilia was. It was all Chinese to me," Dutroux told the
court.
Asked why he had not denounced his accomplices sooner, he said: "I didn't want
to endanger my family."
He spoke about his childhood and career, depicting himself as the victim of an
authoritarian mother.
Asked why he had changed his testimony so often during nearly seven years in
custody, he said it was to protect his ex-wife, Michelle Martin, on trial with
him.
"My statements were full of lies," he said, while insisting that this time he
would tell "the whole truth".
Dutroux had sought to fan conspiracy theories that he was just a cog in a bigger
machine by telling VTM Flemish television on the eve of the trial that he was a
scapegoat for a mafia network
involved in trafficking children.
Defence lawyers, outlining their case, evoked satanic cults, mysteriously
deceased witnesses and forensic evidence of the presence of other people in
Dutroux's cells as evidence that their client was not a "lone pervert".
The prosecution says investigators have found no evidence of such a wider
conspiracy, although a parallel probe into the allegations is continuing.
Lawyers for the victims called the defence strategy a "smokescreen" and appealed
to Dutroux to tell the truth about crimes that Belgians have struggled to
comprehend.
The trial is expected to last at least two months. Dutroux, who was jailed in
1989 for a series of violent rapes, including on minors, faces a maximum
sentence of life imprisonment.
In their indictment, prosecutors described Dutroux as a manipulator who saw
himself as a victim of a hateful society.
"In his mind, all social rules are perfectly recognised, but they are either
rejected as being unacceptably constraining, or used for his own beneit," the
indictment said.
Micheal Nihoul
It was not until August 13, 1996, four years after the
disappearances began, that
authorities arrested Dutroux, along with his wife (an elementary school
teacher), a lodger, a policeman, and a man the
Guardian described as “an associate with political connections” – elsewhere
identified as
Jean-Michel Nihoul,
a Brussels businessman and nightclub owner. One of
those taken into custody -
Michel
Lelievre, described in a May 2002 BBC report
as a “drug addict and petty thief” - reportedly told his interrogators that at
least some of the girls abducted by the ring “were kidnapped to order, for
someone else.” This was just one of many statements by suspects and witnesses
that would later be dismissed by Belgian officials.
Politicians and police
Outrage continued to grow as more arrests were made and
evidence of high-level government and police complicity continued to emerge. One
of Dutroux's accomplices,
businessman Jean-Michel Nihoul,
confessed to organizing an ‘orgy’ at a Belgian chateau that had been attended by
government officials, a former European Commissioner, and a number of law
enforcement officers. A Belgian senator noted,
quite accurately, that such parties were part of a system “which operates to
this day and is used to blackmail the highly placed people who take part.”
According to the
BBC,
Nihoul
has brazenly
claimed: “I am the monster of Belgium.” He has all but dared the state to
prosecute him, claiming that he is beyond the reach of the
law because he has information that, if made
public, “would bring the Government and the entire state down.”
In September 1996,
twenty-three suspects - at least nine of whom were police officers - were
detained and questioned about their possible complicity in the crimes and/or
their negligence in investigating the case.
As the Los Angeles Times noted in a very brief, two-sentence report, the
detainments “were the latest indication that police in the southern city of
Charleroi may have helped cover up the alleged
crimes of Marc Dutroux.” The arrests followed
raids on the police officers’ homes and
on the headquarters of the Charleroi police force and
were based on information supplied by police inspector Georges Zicot, who had
already been charged as an accomplice.
Three magistrates had also reportedly
been interrogated by police
investigators.
Louf identified
Michel Nihoul
as a regular organizer of ‘parties.’ These parties, she said, “not only involved
sex, they included sadism, torture and murder.” She described in detail the
murdered victims, and how and where they were killed.
The bodies of seven children were believed to have been
hidden by the ring, which was thought could be linked to Dutroux through
Michel Nihoul.
Two months after that, a man named Patrick Derochette and three of his family
members were arrested following the discovery of the body of a nine-year-old
girl.
.” The ring was
also said by the Times to offer what were cryptically referred to as
“custom-made videos” for the hefty price of $5,000 each.
Dutroux trial sentencing
Sentence has been passed in the
Belgian "trial of the century" of the pedophile child murderer Marc Dutroux and
his accomplices. Dutroux was
sentenced to life in prison plus
10 years "internment at the government's pleasure" --- a measure intended to
block his being paroled. His mate and accomplice Michelle Martin got 30 years in
prison, as requested by the prosecution. Another accomplice,
Lelièvre, got 25 years, 5 less
than requested by the prosecution. Peculiarly, the enigmatic alleged ringleader
Michel Nihoul
was only sentenced to 5 years in prison,
despite requests by the prosecution that no sentence less than 10 years be
pronounced.
My own sentencing would have spared
society the expense of guarding and caring for the inmates, except
Nihoul,
whose life I might offer to spare in exchange for turning state's witness.
Timeline
Timeline: Dutroux
paedophile case
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paedophile Marc Dutroux, 47, is on trial for the murder of four young girls.
The bodies of two teenage girls, An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks, and two
eight-year-olds, Melissa Russo and Julie Lejeune, were found buried at
properties belonging to him. Mr Dutroux, on trial with three others, has
denied killing the girls, but admitted to kidnapping and rape.
24 June 1995: Eight-year-olds Julie Lejeune
and Melissa Russo disappear near their home in Grace-Hollogne, east Belgium.
23 August 1995: An Marchal, 17, and Eefje
Lambrecks, 19, go missing during a holiday at the seaside town of Ostend.
6 December 1995: Mr Dutroux is arrested on
car theft and other charges. He is convicted and spends nearly four months
in prison. 28 May 1996: Sabine Dardenne, 12, disappears while riding
her bike to school in the town of Kain, south-west Belgium.
9 August 1996: Laetitia Delhez, 14,
disappears after leaving a swimming pool in her home town of Bertrix,
south-east Belgium.
13 August 1996: Mr Dutroux, his ex-wife
Michelle Martin and Michel Lelievre are detained in Sars-la-Buissiere, south
Belgium.
15 August 1996: Mr Dutroux leads police to
makeshift cell in house in Charleroi suburb of Marcinelle where Sabine
Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez are found alive. Both have been drugged and
sexually abused.
16 August 1996: Mr Dutroux admits kidnapping
An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks. Fourth suspect Michel Nihoul is detained.
17 August 1996: Mr Dutroux admits killing
suspected accomplice Bernard Weinstein and takes police to the bodies of
Julie Lejeune, Melissa Russo and Weinstein buried in the backyard of a
Sars-la-Buissiere house.
3 September 1996: Police find remains of An
Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks under a garden shed at Weinstein's house in
Charleroi suburb of Jumet.
20 October 1996: Some 300,000 people march
on Brussels in support of victims' families and to protest against the
authorities for the bungled investigation into missing girls.
9 April 1997: Parliamentary interim report
into the Dutroux case finds police "inhumane, inept, inefficient and
ill-equipped" and lists blunders and rivalry during probe.
23 April 1998: Mr Dutroux escapes custody
during a court visit but is swiftly recaptured. Belgium's police chief,
justice minister and interior minister resign.
1 March 2004: Trial begins in town of Arlon.
Trial: Key moments
4 March 2004: Jean-Marc Connerotte, who led
the initial investigation, testifies.
18 March 2004: A key to a pair of handcuffs
is found near Mr Dutroux's prison cell, hidden in a bag of salt in a
kitchen. The keys fit Mr Dutroux's cuffs.
19 April 2004: Sabine Dardenne appears in
court and gives dramatic testimony against her abuser - asking him why he
did not kill her.
20 April 2004: Laetitia Delhez takes the
stand, describing how she was chained to a bed and raped after being
abducted.
27 April 2004: The court and the two
surviving victims, Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez, visit the cell where
the girls were imprisoned.
24 May 2004: The lawyers for both sides
begin making their final arguments.
10 June 2004: Mr Dutroux makes a final
appeal to the court in which he says he is not a murderer.
14 June 2004: The jury retires to consider
its verdict.
17 June 2004:
Dutroux convicted of murder and leading a child kidnap gang.
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How Belgium is worse than just a pushover
By Noah McCormack
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Perfidy, thy name is Belgium. The same
goes for treachery, deceit, ungratefulness, betrayal, and shameful behavior.
There are many countries whose governments are horrible and in need of
change (see "Onward American Soldiers," Indy 11/7/02) but there are few
nations whose society, people and government are so horrifying as to be
nearly irredeemable. This fact was brought to my mind by the recent move by
Belgium to leave Turkey defenseless in the face of Iraqi aggression. But
Belgium has been perfidious throughout its 173-year history.
Belgium is a nation of 10 million miserable people sandwiched in between
Germany, Holland, France, the North Sea and mighty Luxembourg. Here is what
the CIA World Factbook has to say: "Belgium became independent from the
Netherlands in 1830 and was occupied by Germany during World Wars I and II.
It has prospered in the past half century as a modern, technologically
advanced European state and member of NATO and the EU. Tensions between the
Dutch-speaking Flemings of the north and the French-speaking Walloons of the
south have led in recent years to constitutional amendments granting these
regions formal recognition and autonomy."
Colonial Criminals
Belgium no sooner became independent
than it hurried to catch up with the other European powers in acquiring an
empire. Leopold II sent a shifty character named Henry Stanley to secure
what was then called the "Kongo" for Belgium. Stanley's method, in the words
of one historian, "when meeting a new chief, was to attach a buzzer to his
hand which was linked to a battery. When the chief shook hands with Stanley
he got a mild electric shock. This device convinced the chiefs that Stanley
had superhuman powers. The agreements allowed the Belgians into the Congo to
take its rich natural resources."
The Belgian regime in the Congo was unsurpassed in its brutality. Leopold
and his henchman extracted the diamonds of the Congo at extraordinary cost.
Adam Hochschild, whose family profited from the Congo diamond trade, showed
in King Leopold's Ghost that 10 million Congolese were killed or worked to
death by King Leopold's army, that women were systematically raped, that the
chopping off of hands was a regular practice and that the local populace
endured kidnapping, looting and village burnings. Not only do the Belgians
not discuss (or apologize for) this, but they still run a public museum
celebrating the civilization they brought to the Congo.
Despite the total depravity and brutality they showed in Africa, the
Belgians proved themselves to be the worst sort of bullies--those who cannot
stick up for themselves. When the Germans invaded Belgium in 1914, it took
them two weeks to reach Brussels and only another month to rule the rest of
the country. It was this invasion which caused Britain to enter the war and
sacrifice the flower of its youth, almost 1,000,000 men and boys, to free
Belgium.
This sacrifice was pretty much in vain, for it took Belgium only 18 days to
surrender to the Nazis in 1940. While the SS occupied in Belgium, it faced a
decidedly lax resistance, and achieved one of the highest Jewish death tolls
in Western Europe, higher than that of Vichy France. Upon liberation, 57% of
Belgians voted to reinstate monarchy, despite the fact that their King had
been a personal guest of Hitler at Bertchesgarden. What's a little
friendliness with Hitler between compatriots?
Sex and Politics
Belgium is considered
Jewry's European headquarters for
sex trade
Belgium today is still as perfidious as it was then. An official
parliamentary commission in the 1990s found that Belgian society was
corrupted by organized crime, a
judiciary and police force that was
either incompetent or corrupt (and possibly
both), and an enormous ring of powerful pedophiles. That's right.
Pedophiles.
Marc Dutroux is a convicted sex offender who kept young girls in a warren of
underground concrete cages and was eventually convicted of killing four
girls found at his house. This is what the International Herald Tribune had
to say:
"The commission said the police and magistrates displayed astonishing
incompetence at every level. The parents of missing children will never
forget or forgive the cold indifference with which they were received by
Belgian officialdom. The police could not even be bothered to check into the
disappearance of nine-year-old Loubna Benaissa, whose body was found in a
Brussels garage."
Marc Verwilghen, the head of the parliamentary commission, said there were
at least
11 occasions when the police could have arrested Mr. Dutroux and perhaps
saved the lives of An and Eefje, two teenagers
who disappeared on their way back from a party. Their remains were found in
Mr. Dutroux's underground lair in August 1996.
The government has done little to face up to the public sense of rage and
indignation. No official has even lost a pay grade. The former justice
minister, Melchior Wathelet, who released Mr. Dutroux early from a prison
sentence for rape, has gone on to become a judge of the European Court,
where he has resisted demands from the European Parliament for his
resignation.
Michel Nihoul, Mr. Detroux's
lawyer, was found to have run a "social group" in which he supplied
everything from cocaine to young girls. Senior police officers, judges and
politicians were a part of this group. Belgium
is a country in which official protection is given to perverts, and no one
has to face the music.
Belgium's actions on the international stage are hardly more honorable.
During the Gulf War, Belgium refused to sell ammunition to the British
military, opposing as it did the liberation of Kuwait from the invading
Iraqis. In 2001, Belgium refused to allow Belgian pilots on exchange with
the Royal Air Force to fly peacekeepers into Afghanistan. That's right.
Belgium opposes peacekeepers. And did you read about the fact that Belgium
voted against protecting Turkey, a NATO ally it is sworn to defending, as I
mentioned above? Belgium apparently feels that its treaty obligation to
defend Turkey doesn't apply in the case of Saddam Hussein. And Belgium
doesn't even have the courage of its convictions. As soon as the US applied
some pressure, it reversed course.
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Dutroux also
claimed two policemen took part in the August, 1995 kidnapping of the two teens,
An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks.
He said their abduction was carried out by himself, a
drug-addict friend who is also on trial, and
two other men.
"I later found out they were members of the police
force," he told the court, without identifying them.
He said one of the officers and his
heroin-addict accomplice, Michel Lelievre, had raped one of the young women
after they were kidnapped while on holiday near the Belgian coastal town of
Ostende.
Belgian found guilty in
sex crimes case
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-06-18 09:10
Marc Dutroux, Belgium's most reviled man, was found
guilty Thursday of kidnapping and raping six girls, killing two of them and
causing the death of two others, after a trial that gripped the country for
months.
After three days of deliberations, the jury found the
man described by experts as a self-absorbed psychopath guilty on all counts for
crimes that shocked the country in 1996.
Dutroux, 47, faces life
in prison.
The crimes, which included the death by starvation of
two girls in a basement dungeon in Dutroux's house near the southern city of
Charleroi, have haunted the country for years.
Not only did they make Belgium synonymous with
pedophilia in the world's eyes, they also raised questions in people's minds
about the possible complicity of police and politicians.
The bungled investigation into the missing girls, who
were between the ages of eight and 19, led many Belgians to believe Dutroux
worked under the protection of a child sex ring whose members included
influential people.
In his testimony, Dutroux played on this, describing
himself as a reluctant accomplice who supplied girls to a mysterious ring to
save his own life.
Despite allusions to police helping kidnap girls and
suggestions the ring had ties to a Satanic cult, Dutroux and his lawyers failed
to produce evidence to support their claims.
RELIEF AND TEARS
During a brief recess in Thursday's proceedings,
members of the victims' families came out of the courtroom expressing relief at
the verdicts on Dutroux and the two co-defendants.
"I am happy," a smiling Paul Marchal told local
television. "They are guilty for everything that they have done."
His daughter, An, and her friend Eefje Lambrecks were
kidnapped while on vacation on the coast in 1995. Their bodies were dug up in
the backyard of a house near Charleroi after Dutroux's 1996 arrest.
The grandmother of Julie -- kidnapped when she was
eight and found dead in the basement of Dutroux's house with her friend Melissa
-- wept for joy on the steps of the courthouse.
"I vowed on my little girl's coffin that I would seek
revenge," said Jeanine Lejeune. "My revenge has come. I hadn't realized that I
would be so relieved."
The jury found two co-defendants, Dutroux's ex-wife
Michelle Martin and Michel Lelievre, guilty of similar charges.
But the 12 jury members were divided on the guilt of a
third co-defendant, businessman Michel Nihoul, and the judges sided with the
minority, leading to his acquittal on charges of conspiracy and kidnapping.
The jury also found Nihoul -- accused by Dutroux of
being the mastermind behind the crimes -- not guilty on charges of being an
accomplice, but guilty of masterminding a gang involved in drugs and human
trafficking.
"I was especially relieved that Nihoul was found guilty
of leading a gang, and also on human trafficking," Marchal said.
Georges-Henri Beauthier, a lawyer for Laetitia Delhez,
one of two victims who survived, was only partly satisfied.
"It's ... not totally satisfying because Nihoul was an
important element, but he will have 20 years which is satisfying because Dutroux
was clearly not acting alone," he said.
Nihoul has always denied any wrongdoing.
The co-defendants could each get more than 20 years.
Dutroux stared resolutely at the table, scribbling on a
piece of paper, whenever his crimes were mentioned when the jury's verdict was
read in public.
The debate on the sentencing will start Monday with the
prosecutor, defense lawyers and defendants reacting to the verdict in this
southeast Belgian town near Luxembourg.
Dutroux had admitted kidnapping and raping some of the
girls but denied killing any of them, blaming other defendants for their deaths.
Sabine Dardenne with Marie-Therese Cuny Virago
What you see here on the book cover is eminently what
you get: Sabine Dardenne is photographed holding a photograph of herself at 12 -
the age when she was dragged from her bike as she was cycling to school, bundled
into a van, imprisoned in a hidden concrete cell, drugged, starved and
continually, relentlessly raped, for nearly three months.
The two faces make you think: about innocence,
childhood, vulnerability. The little girl in the photo-within-a-photo is smiling
broadly, her white teeth all childishly uneven: she is a very young 12. The
little face is cheeky, sparky; the eyes bright and open, head slightly cocked to
one side.
The young woman holding the framed picture gazes
steadily out at the reader. The eyes and mouth that seemed too large in the
child's face have moved into proportion. The hands that cradle the picture frame
are long, beautifully manicured and confidently wearing chunky silver rings. She
holds the picture of the child-Sabine protectively close to her chest. It is a
photograph of rare power: dignified and poignant beyond telling. For this is a
book that makes you consider experiences that defy language.
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May 1993: Police did search one of Dutroux's homes on
no less than three separate occasions over the course of the investigation. On
at least two of those occasions, two of the missing girls were being held in
heinous conditions imprisoned in a custom-built dungeon in the basement.
Nevertheless, the police searches came up empty, despite the fact that the
investigating officers reported “hearing children's voices on one occasion,”
according to the Guardian.
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Marc Dutroux is one of the most
notorious criminals in Belgium.
He was
arrested in 1996, and charged with abduction of six girls (Julie Lejeune (8),
Mélissa Russo (8), An Marchal (19), Eefje Lambrecks (17), Sabine Dardenne (12)
and Laetitia Delhez (14)), in 1995 and 1996, sexually abusing them and causing
death to four of them.
Sabine and Laetitia were found alive in his home in Marcinelle near Charleroi
(Hainaut) shortly after his arrest; they had been kept imprisoned three months
and one week, respectively.
Julie and Mélissa were found dead
in
the garden of another house of Dutroux, in Sars-la-Buissière (Hainaut). Their
death was caused by neglect, they were locked up while Dutroux was in prison
earlier, during 4 months from December 1995, and his accomplices failed to feed
them.
An and Eefje were found dead in Jumet
(Hainaut).
His trial will start in March 2004; in the meantime he serves sentences for
lesser crimes. Among them was an escape from custody in 1998; he was caught a
few hours later.
Authorities have been criticized for various errors related to his case, for
example:
The house in which Julie and Mélissa were kept in a
specially constructed secret basement
was searched by the police while they were
still alive, but the police did not find them. This was due to the fact that the
search was on the pretext of being related to theft; therefore no dogs or
special equipment for finding the girls could be used.
It was considered a blunder that one of the most notorious criminals in
Belgium could escape during a transfer; it was felt that he should have been
better guarded.
In 2003 Sabine Dardenne gave her first interview to the press (at age 19). She
stated that, based on her observations, she thinks that Dutroux acted alone, as
opposed to certain speculations that
he was part of a criminal network in which even high
officials might be involved.
Profile: Marc Dutroux
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3522367.stm
Mr Dutroux was sentenced in 1989 to 13 years for abduction
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Marc Dutroux, who stands accused of child killings in
Belgium, has a criminal record going back 25 years.
In 1979, Mr Dutroux received the first of a series of
convictions for theft, violent muggings, drug-dealing and trading in stolen
cars.
Sexual crimes came later - in 1986, Mr Dutroux and his
then-wife Michelle Martin were arrested for the abductions and rape of five
girls, for which they were both imprisoned.
His own mother wrote to the prison director to warn
about her son.
Evidence emerging over the past weeks suggests that Dutroux and his
associates'
activities
spread across Europe. Michelle Martin, Dutroux's wife, is known to have spent
a lot of time out of the country.
Michel Bourlet, the prosecutor leading the investigation into the pedophile
ring, has confirmed that he is contacting police forces across Europe.
Michelle Hirsch, a lawyer stated that:
"Child pornography and prostitution is an international business.
Traffickers buy
children from poor families in Asia
and with the co-operation of police and corrupt
officials they arrange for their transport across international borders."
"A key reason for the increasing demand is that larger
numbers of sex tourists specifically request children." Girls and boys as young
as 6 hang out at gas stations, bus stops, and supermarkets on the Czech side of
the border, says the report, written by a German social worker who says she has
identified around 500 children prostituting themselves.
Russian
Jews Italy
Rome, Italy -- Italian and Russian
police, working together, broke up a ring of
Jewish gangsters who had been involved
in the manufacture of child rape and snuff pornography.
Three Russian Jews and eight Italian Jews were arrested
after police discovered they had been kidnapping non-Jewish children between the
ages of two and five years old from Russian orphanges, raping the children, and
then murdering them on film.
Mostly non-Jewish customers, including 1700 nationwide, 600 in Italy, and and
unknown number in the United States, paid as much as $20,000 per film to watch
little children being raped and murdered.
Jewish officials in a major Italian
news agency tried to cover the story up, but were circumvented by Italian news
reporters, who broadcasts scenes from the films live at prime time on Italian
television to more than 11 million Italian viewers. Jewish officials then fired
the executives responsible, claiming they were spreading "blood libel."
Throughout history, various groups have
accused sects of Jews of ritually murdering small children. One such account,
that of Hugh of Lincoln, led to the expulsion of all Jews from Britain in the
13th Century. Such accounts have generally been discounted, but are so wide
spread that Jewish organizations have developed a name for them -- "blood
libel".
The American group the ADL was founded
to defend a Jew, Leo Frank, accused of raping and murdering a twelve year old
girl, Mary Phagan, in his Atlanta pencil factory in 1913. The ADL claims he was
innocent. A mob lynched him after the governor commuted his death sentence to
life in prison.
Though AP and Reuters both ran stories
on the episode, US media conglomerates refused to carry the story on television
news, again saying the story would prejudice Americans against Jews.to
traffic in "white slaves" and prostitutes through Israel, according to a recent
report in the Jerusalem Post. Israel turns an official blind eye to forced
prostitution, and does not punish Israeli citizens who choose to own "sex
slaves", as long as the slaves are foreign and non-
White slavery
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Friday, May 19 2000 (14 Iyar
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Amnesty: Israel failing to deal with white-slave trade
By Dan Izenberg and Heidi J. Gleit
JERUSALEM (May 19) - Israel has failed to take
adequate measures against human rights abuses of women who have been
brought here and forced to provide sexual services, Amnesty International
charged.
"This is so," a special Amnesty report on the
trafficking of women from the former Soviet Union said, "even though
many of them have been subjected to human rights abuses such as
enslavement or torture, including rape and other forms of sexual abuse, by
traffickers, pimps, or others involved in Israel's sex industry."
Amnesty International also criticized Israel for not
providing a procedure to grant asylum to women who have been smuggled into
the country often on the basis of false promises of work having nothing to
do with sex.
Fighting the trade in women and bringing foreign women
here to work as prostitutes is a priority for the Israel Police, but it is
a very difficult phenomenon to fight, police investigations head Cmdr.
Yossi Sedbon said yesterday.
One of the main problems is that there is not a law
against selling women, he explained, adding that he is aware of the
initiatives to pass such a law and hopes they are successful.
Justice Minister Yossi Beilin told Amnesty
International representatives yesterday that Deputy Attorney-General
Yehudit Karp is preparing an amendment to the Penal Law which would
address the trafficking phenomenon and provide immunity for trafficked
women. He predicted that the legislation would be presented to the Knesset
at its winter session.
According to Amnesty International, hundreds of women
are brought to Israel from the former Soviet Union every year.
According to Amnesty International, Israel is bound by
international law and by international covenants that it has signed to
stamp out the sex trafficking.
Police are arresting suspects on related charges such
as kidnapping, pimping, raping, and assaulting the women, Sedbon said.
The other major problem is that the women are scared to
file police complaints and testify against the pimps, he said. Since most
of them are in the country illegally, they are scared to approach police.
Fear of reprisal by the pimps further paralyzes them. Police try to get
around this both by promising to protect complainants and by initiating
operations to collect evidence against and raid brothels, he said.
An additional complication is that prosecutors need the
women who complain to testify in the court cases against the pimps, which
can be months after the initial complaint is filed. Since the women are
here illegally and there is a chance that the pimps will harm them if they
are left to their own devices here, they have often ended up sitting in
jail until the trial is completed.
Sedbon said that they now try to send the women home
and bring them back here for the trial.
Sedbon declined to comment on the complaints filed
against Afula police chief Ch.-Supt. Shlomo Marmelstein and Tel Aviv
police chief Cmdr. Shlomo Aharonishky for not acting against the problem,
saying he could not comment on specific cases.
Sedbon emphasized that the issue is a priority for
police and that each police district's serious crimes division is dealing
with the problem.
Statistics police released earlier this year show an
increase in the number of cases opened against pimps: 279 in 1997; 370 in
1998; and 506 in 1999.
Sedbon also said that only a minority of the foreign
women working here as prostitutes are kidnapped and forced into
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Dutroux victim confronts abuser
Sabine Dardenne told the court she tried to escape
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A young woman who was kidnapped and repeatedly raped as a child by alleged killer Marc Dutroux has confronted him at his trial in Belgium.
In a hushed court, Sabine Dardenne asked him: "Why did you not kill me?" She was 12 when he held her captive for 80 days at his home in 1996.
The 47-year-old ex-electrician replied that he had no intention of doing so.
Mr Dutroux admits to abduction and rape charges - but denies involvement in the deaths of four girls.
Ms Dardenne is the first of two girls rescued from a cell in Mr Dutroux's basement to address the court in the southern Belgian town of Arlon.
BBC correspondent Allan Little in Arlon says that during her dramatic testimony she was composed and mature - answering questions very clearly and unambiguously.
The other survivor, Laetitia Delhez, is due to testify on Tuesday.
'Room of agony'
Ms Dardenne, who is now 20, told the court on Monday that at one point she tried to escape by forcing the cell door open.
But she said Mr Dutroux was so angry when he found out that she never tried again.
Turning directly to face Mr Dutroux in the courtroom, she asked: "I would like to know, coming from the man who complained that I was pigheaded, why he didn't kill me."
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Julie Lejeune, 8, allegedly starved
Melissa Russo, 8, allegedly starved
An Marchal, 17, buried in garden
Eefje Lambrecks, 19, buried in garden
Sabine Dardenne, then aged 12 - survived
Laetitia
Delhez, then aged 14 - survived
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She also said Mr Dutroux was the only man she saw throughout her captivity and the only person who abused her.
Mr Dutroux told the court that he recognised he had abused Ms Dardenne, saying he took "responsibility for that".
"I acknowledge my mistakes. I acknowledge that I abused her. But
for me there was never any question of killing her," he said.
Ms Dardenne also asked Mr Dutroux's ex-wife, Michelle Martin, why she as a mother stood by and allowed the abuse to happen.
Ms Martin replied she did not expect Ms Dardenne to forgive the unforgivable.
Ms Dardenne and Ms Delhez were released when Mr Dutroux led police to his basement after his arrest.
Last week, the court heard details of letters written by Ms Dardenne to her family while she was held captive.
In the letters, which she was promised
would be sent but never were, she described what she called "the room of agony"
and said she did not think she would ever see her family again
'Conspiracy' claims
Mr Dutroux is on trial with three others, including his ex-wife, over abductions, rapes and murders of girls in the mid-1990s.
Eight-year-olds Melissa Russo and Julie Lejeune died as captives in Mr Dutroux's home.
Two teenagers, An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks, were murdered. Mr Dutroux blames his co-defendants for their deaths.
Many Belgians hope the trial may provide answers to broader questions - such as why it took so long to catch Mr Dutroux and whether he was part of a larger paedophile ring, as he claims.
Our correspondent says Ms Dardenne's testimony that Mr Dutroux was the only man who abused her would seem to give the lie to claims of a wider conspiracy.
More than 400 witnesses are expected to give evidence in the trial, which is expected to last until June.
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