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carmencita ago

Dutreaux Affair

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-10-27/news/9610270253_1_marc-dutroux-minister-willy-claes-jean-marc-connerotte

When little girls started disappearing last year, police questioned Dutroux--after a lapse of some months. They searched his house three times and said they found nothing.

At the time, two 8-year-old girls were dying in Dutroux's cellar prison and a police officer heard them calling out. But he said he thought the cries came from a neighboring house.

Was this a case of incompetence on an almost unimaginable scale, or did Dutroux enjoy police protection?

With four children and young women known dead, two rescued and 10 missing, the question is convulsing Belgian society as a parliamentary inquiry begins into police handling of the case.

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jan/03/news/mn-4579

It was only a little more than a year ago that 350,000 people, a huge assembly for a nation of 10 million, marched in silence through the streets of Brussels to express their anger and outrage over another case: the official bungling and possible high-level cover-up in the investigation of kidnappings of a number of children.

Too late, the bodies of four girls who had been abducted and sexually abused were found in jury-rigged dungeons in the southern city of Charleroi. Marc Dutroux, a 40-year-old unemployed electrician who had already been to prison for kidnap and rape of minors, and his schoolteacher wife and convicted accomplice in the earlier crimes were charged in the deaths.

A parliamentary inquiry into the Dutroux affair found numerous instances of institutional bungling and corruption and concluded that police and judicial agencies failed so abjectly as to "put at risk the state of law."

"Corruption and spinelessness are eternal," Hugo Claus, this country's most celebrated Flemish-language writer, said in a recent newspaper interview. "Stupidity and mediocrity accompany our existence. And in Belgium, this is amplified."

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kazza64 ago

this case haunts me and i think it is central to exposing an international high level pedo ring

carmencita ago

I agree. That is why they tried so hard to bury the truth. We must keep papers and books for we can pass them on, they can scrub the internet. That is why they have gotten rid of some libraries in schools and cut funding. I notice in these two articles that there is favor in the truth towards the children, not so much nowadays. Nowadays they are trying to make us believe these children made up the stories. Very sad indeed. Yes it is haunting. I too believe that a possible ring could exist. High Level.