Marc Dutroux

To anyone who says elite sex abuse doesn't exist, the largest demonstration in Belgian history, the White March, comprised of 400,000 people who took to the capital to protest their government's involvement in the Dutroux pedo ring.

Pre-arrest cover-up - Marc Dutroux, would kidnap girls off of the street to keep as sex slaves in his basement and produce CP. By the time he had raped five teens, Dutroux was caught and received 13 years, serving only three of them.

Dutroux was released by Minister of Justice, Melchior Wathelet, despite the fact that both the public prosecutor, and Dutroux's prison psychiatrist, regarded him as extremely dangerous. 

Even while Marc was in prison, he was collecting around the equivalent of $3K a month from the government because he had convinced a healthcare professional that he had a mental illness and was disabled; Marc used this money to pay for seven properties to house his victims, all at the expense of Belgian tax payers.

When eight-year-old victims, Effie and Anne were kidnapped, Dutroux's own mother told the authorities that Dutroux was holding them captive in his house. The police went to Dutroux's house, where they heard the screams of children; despite knowing his history, they didn't do anything, later claiming they assumed the screams were coming from outside. Marc was briefly detained for car theft, and his wife said she was too afraid to go down and feed the girls, so they starved to death.

Despite multiple tips about Marc Dutroux, the police had taken 14 months after the girls' kidnappings to detect him as a suspect.

After witnesses said they had spotted victim, Melissa at a Charleroi nightclub right before her death, the police failed to follow up on the tip.

Post arrest cover-up

When he was eventually caught in 1996, throughout their investigation the police found videos, undeveloped film, and photographs of the victims, but they failed to examine them; furthermore, a speculum, a device used to examine the vagina during a pelvic exam, was located in Dutroux's home and was even handled by police, but it was never sent in for forensic analysis.

Autopsy reports on Melissa victims proved that she had been assaulted for a very long period of time over and over again, yet the police claimed there was no DNA evidence, no witness reports, or forensic reports to prove that the assaults were from Dutroux or any of his accomplices. DNA testing was performed, yet no one was informed of the results, not even the prosecutors.

Multiple unidentified hairs were found in the dungeon after the home was finally searched; those hairs were sent to DNA analysis. Xavier Magni, Marc Dutroux's lawyer, said that 25 unknown DNA profiles were being identified, without any attempt to match them; a judge lied to one of the case prosecutors about this fact.

The spaghetti judgement - In 1996, the judge who had initially been assigned to the case, Jean-Marc Connerotte, was removed from the investigation. Jean-Marc had attended a charity dinner for the families of Dutroux's victims. The Belgian political judicial system ruled that because Jean had received a pen and a plate of spaghetti as a gift at the dinner, he was being bribed. This has come to be known as The Spaghetti Judgment. Even though 400,000 people gathered to protest in Brussels, Judge Connerotte, was replaced by Jacques Langlois.

Connerotte was supposedly going to testify that there were murder plots meant to stop the investigation into Jean Nihoul as well.

Later, on Aug. 16, 1996, Nihoul was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy, three days after Marc Dutroux and his accomplices, after they had given statements implicating him.

On February 15th, 1998, the 17-month-long parliamentary investigation into Marc's case produced a second report. This report, though, concluded that Marc Dutroux had no accomplices in high positions or the justice system.

While in custody on April 28, 1998, Marc Dutroux was allowed to review the files associated with his case. Two police officers were there in his cell with him. When one of these officers went out on a break, Dutroux supposedly overpowered the other officer and escaped. He was captured only a few hours later, and one of the officers responsible resigned because of this incident; several other officers resigned with him, including the head of the government service.

Several law enforcement officials themselves were arrested on suspicions of being tied to Marc Dutroux and his pedophile activities. One of these officers that was arrested was Georges Zico, who was charged with truck theft, document forgery, and insurance fraud, some of the same crimes Marc Dutroux himself had committed.

Dutroux's accomplice, Michel Lelievre, told police after his arrest that the two 8-year old-girls had been kidnapped as part of an order made by Jean-Michel Nihoul. Lelievre told officials that he didn't feel comfortable giving any more information because his life was being threatened by an unknown party.

At the time he was caught, Dutroux was worth 6 million francs. (around $1M) WikiLeaks revealed that large sums of cash were sent to Dutroux's wife's bank account, some in other currencies. These currencies and this money arrived right at the same time the girls were abducted. There were attempts by Belgian authorities to have the Dutroux dossier taken down by Wikileaks on the grounds that, while some of the information was true, some of it was false and involved people who had done nothing wrong so should remain classified.

Dutroux stated that that he personally wasn't a pedophile and that he was supplying children to others who were. It was also revealed that Dutroux was aided in some of his kidnappings by the Belgian police themselves.

Dutroux's wife and accomplice, who let two of his victims starve to death and who received those bank transfers for the kidnappings, was sentenced to prison but quickly found refuge in a monastery and now lives alongside the nuns who inhabit it.

The admission - In a Guardian article, Nihoul told a reporter: ''I am the Monster of Belgium," going on to say that he would never be brought to trial, and if he was, he wouldn't need to show up, as that evidence against him would never be heard by a jury because the information he had on important people would bring down the entire government.

The X-files - The X-files were a list of alleged Dutroux victims compiled during the investigation.

The organizer of the parties was identified by multiple witnesses as Jean-Michel Nihoul. One of the people that witnesses said were present at these pedophile murder parties was a secretary general of NATO.

Witness X1 (Regina Louf) recounted an incident involving a young girl being eaten alive by a dog at a party in front of a bunch of executives, saying that the industrial room they were in was for a corporation, describing distinct interior and furniture. When the police brought her there, they went into the building and found that it was exactly how she had described it.

At one point, Regina talked about witnessing the murder of 16-year-old Christine Van Hees, describing every element of the case that the police had, down to the way that the body was found and the description of the victim. Regina had described the torture and murder of 15-year-old Christine Van Hees, insisting that Marc Dutroux was there at the time of this murder and that he had helped facilitate it. Another man that was there, according to Regina, was Jean-Michel Nihoul.

Jean-Claude Van Espen, the judge in charge of the Van Hees case, had a close relationship with Nihoul and his wife, and even represented them as their lawyer.

Regina claimed that a Pink Ballet was connected to or supplied by Dutroux and his accomplices. Apparently, video evidence was captured of this event. Louf claimed that at a castle, children were forced to strip naked except for their shoes and run off into the forest so men with dogs could chase them. This would be inadmissible if not for the fact that an alleged survivor of satanic ritual abuse discussed a situation so similar that it could have been the same event, adding that those who gave chase wore masks and were armed with weapons.

This castle is suspected to have been Château des Amerois, long rumored to be a haven for elite rituals. In the past, both National Geographic and the BBC have reached out to the owners to gain access for historical purposes, only to be denied. Those who have gone there have found trip wires leading towards the premises.

According to the book Pedophelia File, a retired gendarm (police officer) admitted that in 1996, he hosted a priest from Mexico, and that a friend of the priest, a Dutchman, came to pick him up from the officer's home. This Dutchman apparently claimed that the Château de Amorois was a place where pedophile parties as well as the satanic ritual sacrifice of children took place. Councilmen, lawyers, and high-ranking judges in the government were all said to have attended orgies organized by Dutroux's organization. According to the Dutchman, the one who informed him of this activity was an American member of NATO, who had participated in one of the rituals and was disgusted. The Mexican priest was allegedly later in contact with the families of the two 8-year-old victims of Dutroux.

The officer who took Regina Louf's statement was charged with falsifying statements and concealing that Louf had incorrectly identified the photograph of one of the victims; because of this, the evidence gathered from the 11 witnesses, including Regina Louf, was thrown out; later, de Baets was exonerated because the evidence he claimed she had given him was there all along. These 11 witnesses could have been what revealed the existence of that massive pedophile ring in Belgium.

Even though Regina's claims were substantiated by her own parents, she was blasted across Belgian media as a fantasist and a liar.

Abraxas - Dutroux had an accomplice called Bernard Weinstein, who he murdered, fearing he would cooperate. The police found a letter in Weinstein's house from someone called Anubis, asking for gifts for a high priestess during a ceremony, with a designation on their age and gender. 

The Abraxas cult in Charleroi, one of Dutroux's main locations, had a member named Dominique Kindermans, who used the very same alias: 'high priestess'. In late 1996, the police followed up on the note and raided their headquarters, confiscating bags of papers, videocassettes, and even a whole refrigerator. 

The number 365 has a significance to the cult, which is interesting because Château des Amerois has 365 windows. Publication, Der Speigel discovered four Belgian police officers to have been Abraxas members, one serving as the cult's treasurer.

Mysterious deaths

Around 20 witnesses directly involved with the case died, often by murder and often right before going to give statements.

Even though Regina Louf's claims were substantiated by her own parents, she was blasted across Belgian media as a fantasist and a liar.

Jean Paul-Taminiau - Jean Paul-Taminiau rented a garage that stood across from the hangar used by Marc Dutroux to hide his stolen van. He died in 1995, shortly after sharing with a friend that he'd learned something important and disturbing regarding Dutroux.

This was in 1995, before Marc had been outed. Even though Jean Paul-Taminiau's corpse was never located, a severed foot, was discovered in the confines of a river a year after his death.

Simon Poncelet - Simon Poncelet was a police officer who was charged with investigating the car smuggling ring that centered around Marc Dutroux. Simon was found shot to death in his office after a night shift in February of 1996.

Joseph Toussaint - Joseph Toussaint was Michelle Martin's confessor. He died of a heart attack in March of 1997.

Alexandre Gosselin - Alexandre Gosselin sold his house to Marc Dutroux's accomplice, Bernard Weinstein; just afterwards, the remains of Anne and Effie were located on the property. Alexander shared with his son that he had found Weinstein's behavior to be unusual.

Gosselin died an alleged natural death after experiencing abdominal pain in July of 1995, before Dutroux was outed; his house burned down via arson in January of 1997.

Christiaan Coanrads - The cause of death for a man named Christiaan Coanrads is unknown, though it's noted that he died in March of 1996. Coanrads would have been questioned if he were still alive about his connection to Marc Dutroux. He apparently knew about the pedophile ring, but escaped prison and was found a month later.

Jose Steppe - Died in 1997, two days before he was supposed to give testimony to the police. It was determined afterwards that rohypnol was found in his inhaler, a drug which Marc Dutroux was known to use on his victims.

Jose was a well-connected person and claimed to have had critical information about the Marc Dutroux pedophile ring. He told the police that he had very important information surrounding the ring.

Brigitte Genard - Brigitte Genard was a close friend of Jean-Michel Nihoul; she allegedly committed suicide in April of 1998.

Sandra Claeys - Witness, Sandra Claeys allegedly committed suicide in November of 1999.

Guy Goebels - Witness, Guy Goebels allegedly committed suicide in August of 1995.

Fabienne Jaupart - Witness, Fabienne Jaupartallegedly committed suicide in December of 1998.

Hubert Massa - Witness, Hubert Massa allegedly committed suicide in July of 1999.

Gregory Antepine - Witness, Gregory Antepine allegedly committed suicide in August of 1999.

Pierre-Paul ''Pepe'' De Rucke - Witness, Pierre-Paul ''Pepe'' De Rucke allegedly committed suicide in May of 2001.

Sandra Clays - Sandra Clays was an ex-girlfriend of Dutroux's accomplice, Michel Lelievre who had mentioned that she had overheard Dutroux talking to Lelievre about a ''way to make a lot of money''; Clays allegedly committed suicide.

Fabienne Jaupart - Fabienne Jaupart was the wife of Bruno Tagliaferro, a very wealthy and powerful man in Belgium. She found documents in his possession related to Dutroux that were so disturbing that she called the police and felt that she needed police protection. She allegedly filled her apartment with methanol and lights it and blows herself up.

Bruno Tagliaferro - Tagliaferro was later poisoned. He was an acquaintance of Marc Dutroux and a fellow scrap dealer. Before his death, he allegedly told his wife that he would be killed because he "knew too much." His death was assessed to be a suicide before later earning a declaration as murder by poison.

Gerard Vanesse - Gerard was one of the first police officers involved in investigating the Dutroux case. He died an untimely death in 1987, the cause of which is unknown.

Hubert Massa - Just a month after starting to work the case, a man named Hubert Massa was believed to have taken his own life. Hubert had served as the senior public prosecutor in Marc Dutroux's case, a powerful position in the government who was involved in the case.

Gregory Antepine - Another police officer involved in the Dutroux case, Gregory Antepine, was determined to have committed suicide by hanging himself.

Pierre-Paul Pepe de Reich - Pierre-Paul Pepe de Reich, a pimp, bar owner and known acquaintance of Jean-Michel Nihoul was beaten and choked to death, then dumped in a river; this was ruled a suicide.

Anna Konkjevoda - Anna Konkjevoda told the police that she had knowledge of a child porn ring centering around Marc Dutroux, spanning throughout all of Eastern Europe. She was beaten and choked to death, then dumped in the Meuse River.

Gina Pardaens-Bernaer - Gina Pardaens-Bernaer was a social worker who was charged for supporting the victims of a child pornography ring. Gina told the police that she had seen a child pornography tape featuring a girl who was murdered by someone she recognized as one of Nihoul's acquaintances. In 1998, Gina reported received a death threats that she would die via a car accident. Shortly afterwards, she died in a car accident.

Nadege Renard - Just prior to offering a list of contacts that related directly to Marc Dutroux in 2001, Nadege Renard died in a car crash.

Bernard Routmond - Bernard Routmond also met his untimely death via a car crash while on the way to testify to the police. 

Bernard was a known film director who had been accused in the past of kidnapping a girl, raping her, and trading footage of the act. The police found children's toys in his apartment after his death.

Christoph Vanhaxe - Another car crash death was a journalist named Christoph Vanhaxe who was investigating the case.

Michel Piro - Michel Piro, a nightclub owner connected with the red light scene in Charleroi, had contacted Julie and Melissa's families three months after Marc Dutroux was arrested. In 1996, before he could tell authorities what he knew, Piro was found shot dead in a car.

Jean-Haques Feront - Jean-Haques Feront was a proclaimed pedophile hunter who found some disturbing information linking Dutroux to powerful people in Belgium. He died of a heart attack in March of 2001.

Francois Ryskens - Francois Ryskens was heavily involved in the drug and criminal scene in Belgium. He died the day before he was set to testify against Dutroux, concerning the kidnapping of Melissa. According to authorities, Francois fell in front of a moving train.

Philippe Deleuze - Jean-Michel Nihoul's lawyer, Philippe Deleuze, died an untimely death, the cause of which is unknown.

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By: Colin Browen...

Raped by: Otto Heckel