Marc Dutroux

 

 

Don't pity me

Sabine Dardenne was like any other 12-year-old Belgian girl. But then the serial rapist and murderer Marc Dutroux abducted her and kept her locked in his cellar for 80 days, subjecting her to repeated sexual abuse.  Nine years on, she is adamant that the ordeal is behind her.  And, she tells Jon Henley, sympathy is the last thing she wants.   UK - The Guardian - April 18, 2005

Date fixed for Dutroux appeal

BRUSSELS – Convicted Belgian child killer Marc Dutroux will formally appeal in December against his life sentence for child abductions, rapes and murders, it has been confirmed.  (Expatica - 0ct. 7, 2004)

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Dutroux's last stand

BRUSSELS – Suspected Belgian child murderer Marc Dutroux lashed out at "liars and manipulators" on Thursday as he took a final opportunity to address the jury in his trial in the Belgian city of Arlon.   Making his last address to the court before he is sentenced, Dutroux said he was not trying to duck responsibility for crimes he had committed but insisted he did not act alone.   (Expatica)

Nihoul 'as guilty as Dutroux'

Lawyers for Laetitia Delhez, who was freed from a cell in one of Dutroux's properties in 1996, on Tuesday argued at Dutroux's trial in the Belgian city of Arlon that Nihoul and Dutroux worked together to kidnap girls.  (Expatica)   RELATED:   Dutroux prison letter broadcast in Belgium

Dutroux: 'no grand conspiracy'

Marc Dutroux was never part of a major paedophile network that included high placed members of the Belgian establishment, a lawyer representing the family of one of the suspected child murderers alleged victims said on Monday.   (Expatica)  MORE:   Dutroux trial enters final phase

Dutroux girls return to dungeon

BELGIUM - Two young women who were held captive and raped by the alleged Belgian child killer Marc Dutroux have returned to the scene of their ordeal.   (BBC)   MORE:  Why didn't you kill me?' victim asks Dutroux   Police were told where Dutroux victim was   Dutroux wife recounts starving girls in dungeon

Dutroux 'accomplice' takes the stand

BRUSSELS - The man suspected child murderer Marc Dutroux claims ran a paedophile network that ordered young girls to be kidnapped on demand was questioned in court in the Belgian city of Arlon on Wednesday.   Michel Nihoul, described as a Belgian 'businessman,' is standing trial alongside Dutroux.  (Expatica)

Dutroux victims 'buried alive'

BELGIUM: Speaking at Dutroux's trail public prosecutor Jacques Langlois said there was no reason to doubt that 17-year-old An Marchal and Eefje Lambreckx, 19, had been alive when they were drugged, bound, gagged then buried.  (Expatica)

No-one pressured me insists Dutroux investigator

Speaking at the opening of the second week of Dutroux's trial, prosecutor Jacques Langlois said he had worked entirely independently since taking on the Dutroux case in 1996.  (Expatica)

Dutroux lashes out at media as trial resumes

Belgian child rapist Marc Dutroux withdrew his ban on being photographed but lashed out at the media as his trial for a shocking spate of abductions, rapes and murders resumed for a second week. (AFP)

Rescued girls too terrified to leave Dutroux's clutches: Investigator

ARLON, Belgium: Jean-Marc Connerotte, the Belgian investigating judge who ordered Marc Dutroux's arrest in August 1996 described how two young girls hid from their rescuers and embraced their torturer when they were freed.   (AFP)   MORE:   Rapping police, Dutroux judge tells of finding terrified girls

'Despite everything he made me suffer, I did not go insane'

ARLON, Belgium - At last Marc Dutroux's sex crime trial has begun, and Belgium's cry for justice is embodied in a witness who, when a 12-year-old eight years ago, was raped 20 times. (The Observer)

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Paedophiles ex-wife knocks down his denials

The ex-wife of Belgian paedophile Marc Dutroux has knocked down his denials over the abductions and murders of several girls as she took the stand for the first time in her trial.       (Aljazeera)

Alleged child killer admits abuse

Accused Belgian child killer Marc Dutroux horrified courtroom spectators Wednesday when he described how he had sex with two of the victims.   (CTV)   

Dutroux blames accomplices for murders

Belgian paedophile Marc Dutroux claimed he was the hapless fall-guy for a shadowy child-sex gang as he gave evidence for the first time in his trial for abduction, rape and murder.   (Channel News Asia)   MORE: Dutroux claims police helped in teens' kidnap

Dutroux: I was child sex ring pawn

Former electrician Marc Dutroux has admitted kidnapping and raping young girls but denied murder, insisting he was a pawn of a child-sex gang protected by police and politicians.   (CNN)  PREVIOUS:   How Dutroux case shocked a nation     Justice in the dock as man goes on trial

The devil's work 

Marc Dutroux, a 49-year-old unemployed electrician is accused of kidnapping six girls and murdering four of them, including two eight-year-olds who were chained up and starved to death in a concrete dungeon built beneath his house.   (Telegraph UK)

Dutroux goes on trial

Belgium is anticipating Monday's opening of the long-awaited trial of Marc Dutroux and three others charged in connection with a series of horrifying child abductions and murders in the 1990s.  (Radio Netherlands)    MORE:   Belgian justice system on trial with 'hated monster'   (BBC)

Trial for crimes that traumatised a nation

Belgium's public enemy number one, self-confessed killer and child rapist Marc Dutroux, finally goes on trial next week, seven years after the crimes of which he is accused traumatised the entire country.   (New Zealand News)

Timeline:  

June 1995: Melissa Russo, 8, and Julie Lejeune, 8, are kidnapped 

August 1995: An Marchal, 19, and Eefje Lambrecks, 17, disappear 

November 1995: Marc Dutroux jailed for three months for car crime 

June 1996: Sabine Dardenne, 12, kidnapped 

August 1996: Laetitia Delheze, 14, kidnapped. 

Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delheze are rescued from a dungeon in Dutroux's basement. 

Bodies of Melissa and Julie and Bernard Weinstein found buried in garden 

September 1996: Bodies of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks are uncovered

BBC Profile: Marc Dutroux

 

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