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Connecting Strands Of The Accused
One of the regular organisers of these parties, she claimed, was the man she knew as 'Mich', Jean Michel Nihoul, 'a very cruel man. He abused children in a very sadistic way', she said. Also there, she said, was the young Dutroux.
Dutroux was a boy who brought drugs, cocaine to these parties - he brought some girls, watched girls. At these events Nihoul was a sort of party beast while Dutroux was more on the side.' Source
Dutroux, who is charged with kidnapping and illegal imprisonment of children, owns 11 houses. Yet he was an unemployed electrician with no legal source of income, apart from the dole. TheTimes: August 21st 1996
After several of the disappearances, Mr. Dutroux paid large sums of money into several bank accounts. Source
Police said Dutroux was part of a child prostitution ring that may also have been responsible for several other disappearances still unsolved. His gang allegedly offered to buy young victims for $5,000 apiece. As part-time car thieves, too, they may have enjoyed local police protection. Source
PV 151.044, March 27, 1997: "The events in Chimay. She went 5-6 times. In an immense wood... She was forced to go. She was never a [visual] witness of whatever was done. Participated: the most violent of the group in Knokke, among them the Lippens brothers. In Chimay she heard shouting and gunfire... It was around the Castle of Chimay. The wood is surrounded by a wall. Those were screams of children of maybe 10 years. She thinks there were 4-5 children. The screams stop all of a sudden... The participants had all been in Knokke and in Eindhoven. She never saw the children. The screams were horrible and indescribable
PV100.399: Tony (X1's alledged pimp) brought her to a domain - there were four other girls (Marianne; Valerie, Catharine, Sonja) [present:] VDB (Paul Vanden Boeynants) - person from Sabena - 4 Gd (gendarme officers) - de Bonvoisin. There was also a gamekeeper that raped the girls but did no more than that. Bonvoisin was the most dangerous - he had come to kill,,, The girls run into the woods and each time they're caught they have to remove a piece of clothing. X1 is forced by Bonvoisin to stay with him - she must choose and point out the girls... Bonvoisin forces X1 to pull the trigger whilst telling her that if she misses she is shot. She fires on Sonja and kills her. Marianne is killed with a crossbow. X1 is raped and brought back home.
As does X3, who is noted as being respected for her subsequent work with child abuse victims.
PV 151.829, June 2, 1997: "A hunt is prepared by Charly and Polo. Present: Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb. This is at another place. Big white house with [at least one additional floor] and stables. The park has a round basin and a fountain coming out of a statue. The children were released naked and when caught, they were raped. The hunt ended with tortures in the spectacle room.
“The Lippens family was one of Belgium’s major aristocratic families to take over Société Générale de Belgique, which used to be the Société Générale des Pays-Bas since its founding in 1822 by King William I of Orange and until the Belgian revolution of 1830. Its purpose since its founding was financing the growth of the Belgian economy, becoming a major bank in Belgium and a central pillar of its industry. Other families that had taken over the SGdB include de Merode, de Meeus, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Janssen, Boël, and Solvay, with the Vatican Bank (IOR) also holding stock. Source
PV 117.535: Parties with underage girls in the Cromwel hotel in Knokke.
Present: Delvoie - Karel - X2 - Lippens - Van Gheluwe - Etienne Davignon. The girls knew where to go and with whom. Lippens hits the little girls. Several meetings between Karel and Davignon in the Memling hotel with the two Lippens."
PV 118.383, December 13, 1996 'Interview with X2': She frequented the Platos,,, After midnight: orgies, sometimes with consenting minors of 14 to 15 years. At the time of an orgie she had sex with Karel... he strangles her until she almost loses consciousness.
PV 150.565, March 4th, 1997, 'identification of persons cited by X2': Karel Van Miert (17/-1/42).
ASCO
"The intention was that she (X1) would show them the way to 'the factory', where she already had spoken about in a previous interview. At the time, she talked about a secret studio where snuff movies were recorded. On the E40 Brussels-Luik she had pointed to exit Sterrebeek. From there she made the inspectors drive until a crossing. 'Go left here, she said. A few miles down the road she made the car stop. That's it,' the factory'. De Pauw looked and saw a large board with a name on it (ASCO). It was the company of a business friend (Roger Boas) of a politician pointed out by X1 (Paul Vanden Boeynants) ... 'It has changed', she noted accurately, The X Dossiers Page 259.
She (X1) can give a pretty good description of the building, and when it is identified a month later it also turns out to be accurate: a glass gateway, lots of aluminum, red bricks, square building, an aerial photo in the entry hall, a waiting room with four dark brown couches and a large white astray on a salon table. She describes the murder on a baby, about which Tony V. later insinuated that it might have been her own child…” The X Dossiers, pages 165-166, 259-260
Evidence Of Corruption
Dutroux was sentenced in 1989 to thirteen years for his crimes but was freed after having served just three. This was in spite of the fact that, as prison governor Yvan Stuaert would later tell a parliamentary commission: “A medical report described him as a perverse psychopath, an explosive mix. He was an evident danger to society.” Source
Mrs. Lauwens heard then that her son might be released. She pleaded with the prison authorities not to let him out, arguing that he was too troubled, that he could not be trusted. Source
In April 1997, the parliamentary panel named 30 officials it said had failed to uncover Dutroux’s misdeeds. None so far has been punished, and Melchior Wathelet, then the justice minister, has been elevated to the European Court of Justice Source
And, in further disclosures which Belgium is doing its best to ignore, a book by the highly respected chairman of a parliamentary inquiry into the case claims that his commission's findings were muzzled by political and judicial leaders to prevent details emerging of complicity in the crimes. Source
The informer told the police in the summer of 1993 that Dutroux was building a bunker at his house in which he was going to imprison the girls, but officers believed Dutroux when he said he was building a new drainage system. Source
A year ago, when young girls were disappearing in Belgium, Jeanine Lauwens contacted the police to point them toward an obvious suspect: her own son.
Frightened neighbors, Mrs. Lauwens recalled in a recent interview, had complained to her of strange nightly goings-on at one of her son's many homes. They had seen two young girls entering the house, which had windows covered with black plastic. ''I knew he couldn't be trusted,'' Mrs. Lauwens said. Source
In turn those observations are just a joke, keeping in mind the status of Dutroux as a suspect in a kidnapping case, which, we might assume, would require some urgency for the victims. Six times in two months Dutroux is shadowed, a total of fifty hours, despite the use of energy-saving time lapse. That’s not even 2% of the total observation period. According to an experienced police officer, so ridiculously little it was as good as useless. Meisjes Verdwijnen niet Zamaar page 86: Fred Vandenbussche.
The force admitted that it had held on to the footage for nearly four years without passing it to the judges investigating the country's paedophile ring. Prosecutors were given copies of the tape earlier in their inquiry with the vital scene, and footage of Dutroux sexually assaulting a woman edited out. Source
They found films which went undeveloped and videos which they didn't watch. Had they done so, they would have seen Dutroux building the dungeon. Source
I remember almost nothing of the house search, except one thing: when I went down with Rene Michaux and handed him a searchlight, we both clearly heard two children’s voices. Of two little girls. One said three or four words, the other briefly answered; one word of one syllable. It lasted a few seconds. At that moment, a colleague of Michaux came running down the stairs making a lot of noise. Michaux shouted: ‘Tais-toi – Silence!’ We heard nothing after that anymore.
When a parliamentary commission examined the series of failures in the Dutroux investigation the police officer responsible, René Michaux, claimed it was a genuine mistake, that the entrance to the dungeon was well hidden and that the children's voices seemed to come from outside. He found a speculum on the floor which he lifted, handled and returned to Dutroux's wife without forensic analysis. Source
When officers went to Dutroux's home to arrest him for car theft in the autumn of 1995, they heard children screaming but accepted Dutroux's word that it was the voices of his own girls playing. Source
Police investigators discovered about 30 such letters under a carpet upon her release. Source
Lone Perpetrator?
The autopsy report reveals Melissa was raped repeatedly over a prolonged period. But there is nothing, no DNA evidence, no witness sightings, no forensics of any kind to show whether it was Dutroux, or anyone else. Source
There had been reported sightings of eight-year-old Melissa Russo after the date of her kidnap, at various nightclubs. These were never followed up by police, who maintain that Dutroux was a lone paedophile, rather than someone supplying young girls to a network of men, as he claimed at his trial. Source
"I speak not only as a lawyer, but also as a citizen and father," M. Magnee told the court. "He was not the only devil." The lawyer added that some 6,000 hair samples found in the basement cellar where some of the victims were held had led to the discovery of 25 "unknown" DNA profiles. Source
Journalist: “Can you explain why there was no DNA analysis done?”
Prosecutor general Anne Thily: DNA analysis was done madam”
Journalist: “What does that mean?” “That there was no sperm?”
Prosecutor: “They were in a very putrified state, it did not allow to make an analysis of that type, of sperm, or anything”
Journalist: “That’s not what’s written in the autopsy report. Again the story doesn’t square, the bodies weren’t decomposed, DNA can be taken from samples after death. The question remains unanswered, why is there no DNA result? Might it have shown someone else raped Melissa? 23.30
Carine Russo points to a wall of files in her office. 'Where are the results of the swabs taken from Melissa's body for analysis? We know swabs were taken. It says so in the reports. But there are no results. I've asked the prosecutor repeatedly and no one seems to know.' Source
Although she said she sometimes heard voices outside, she only ever saw Dutroux. He allegedly justified his acts by saying he was protecting her from a worse fate. Source
Dutroux explained to me that he conditioned the girls to be obedient and submissive when they arrived at customers PV 100.223 & PV 100.241 Page 73: The Nihoul Dossier the knot in the Dutroux trial
Further Connections
A third accomplice, Michel Lelievre, a drug addict and petty thief, told police soon after his arrest that the girls were kidnapped to order, for someone else.
The investigating judge suspected Jean Michel Nihoul, a Brussels businessman and nightclub owner, was the brains behind the operation. Nihoul was arrested.
But Lelievre suddenly stopped co-operating. He was with Dutroux and Nihoul, in prison where they all mixed freely in the exercise yard.
He told police he'd been threatened and couldn't risk saying any more. Source
I would like to reveal other things about Jean-Michel-Nihoul, but I don't want that these testimonies are taken up in the dossier. As I said, I fear for my life and those around me. I remind you that Nihoul told me the following 'if you cross me, I will destroy you'. PV 2.557 Page 62: The Nihoul Dossier the knot in the Dutroux trial
Marc always told me that he kidnapped for people who had placed an order. When he came out of prison in March 1996, I asked him who did the orders when he was in jail, he answered that somebody else did that and he certainly wasn't the only one. When we went to pick up a girl, Marc wanted that she corresponded with the order, small hips. He gave me a description of the girl that we were looking for. I asked him why they (An & Eefje) were still with him even though he claimed he had an order, he told me that the people who had placed the order had come, but they weren't interested in them. PV 100.223 & PV 100.241 Pages 72-73: The Nihoul Dossier the knot in the Dutroux trial
His kidnappers, in rambling notes to Belgian media, claimed responsibility for the kidnapping on behalf of a non-existing left-wing group. Source
While there was no official statement of the amount, reports in the Belgian press mentioned as much as $2 million. Justice Minister Melchior Wathelet acknowledged that there had been negotiations with the kidnappers and said the authorities were still seeking ''the authors of this crime.'Source'
Further Corruption?
The dismissal also followed press reports that Mr. Connerotte was on the verge of disclosing the names of senior government officials who had been recognized on confiscated videotapes, and during allegations of a high-level cover-up. Source
The Belgian judge who saved two young girls from Marc Dutroux's pedophile dungeon broke down in the witness box yesterday, alleging high-level murder plots to stop his investigation into a child-sex mafia Source
To lead the investigation of Mr. Dutroux, Judge Connerotte brought in one of the National Gendarmerie's top officers, Patriek De Baets, and his team of investigators. Source
Mr. De Baets was exonerated this year. In November, two journalists from Le Soir Illustre, who were judged to have defamed him and four colleagues, were ordered to pay the gendarmes 2.2 million Belgian francs ($55,000), plus costs. Mr. De Baets and his colleagues, however, remain on leave. Source
There was fresh anger in late October when two members of Parliament asserted that the police in Charleroi had destroyed some key files in the case as recently as mid-September. Source
'She gave us some details that made us think it's impossible to give without having been there at that place - the way the body was found at that time, and the way she described the person who was killed.' Source
He had each of her statements checked out, and discovered that she had inexplicably detailed knowledge of the unsolved murders of two young women in the 1980s that supported the thesis of a conspiracy. Source
I met Nihoul in a restaurant in Brussels. 'I am the Monster of Belgium,' he roared at me by way of greeting. He is confident he will never come to trial and that the evidence against him will never be heard by any jury.
He will never come to court, he said, because the information he has about important people in Belgium would bring the government down. The Monster of Belgium denies he's a paedophile but seemed to enjoy his notoriety and demanded £1,000 for his story. We declined his offer. Source
"Yes, we used to go the bars, the gay and lesbian clubs and the sex parties," he said, his bushy moustaches bristling at the memory of his past achievements. Infiltrating such establishments was no easy matter; it was not a job to be done wearing "jeans and a leather jacket". Source
Mysterious Deaths
Bruno Tagliaferro, a Charleroi scrap metal merchant who knew Dutroux, claimed to know something about the car in which Julie and Melissa were kidnapped. But he was soon found dead, apparently of a heart attack. His wife Fabienne Jaupart, refused to accept the verdict and arranged for his body to be exhumed. Samples sent to the USA for analysis showed he'd been poisoned. Soon after, her teenage son found her dead at home in her bed, her mattress smouldering. Publicly it was declared suicide, or an accident. There have been 20 such unexplained deaths connected with Dutroux. Source
Mr. Bille tried to establish how many children had gone missing in Belgium. Several of the prosecutors' offices failed to reply, but the Brussels region reported that 1,300 minors disappeared between 1991 and 1996. Source
"With what I have found", she said, "either Belgium explodes, or I am murdered". Gina Pardaens-Bernaer
Where Is The Justice?
The investigation into the implications of Dutroux case will be concluded in the next chapter.
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A heart-wrenching glimpse into the cruelty and crimes of the rich and powerful. I appreciate you excluding extraneous details of savagery unnecessary to the discussion, as knowing these are the people that run the banks, the police, the courts, and the vile institutions that rule over us is troubling enough, crime enough to endure details of.
Thanks!
Thank you my friend - I wanted to at least try and stay on point, a key focus being the institutional scale of corruption that exists beyond the glare of public awareness and scrutiny. The details that are shared being an important component to the overarching narrative.
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