Belgian pedophile trafficking ring and alleged cover up: Marc Dutroux & Nihoul « on: October 11, 2012, 07:10:08 PM » 3 Wikipedia entry on Marc Dutroux: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux (read especially about the parts in "failures of the system").
Marc Dutroux is a Belgian convicted pedophile rapist and (serial?) killer, now confined to prison for life. What is strange is that there were numerous allegations of a network/ring, with elite people in Belgium, even in France and the Netherlands alleged to be perpetrators (witnesses and others allege). The Belgian police and judicial authorities made many, many "blunders" in investigations (as well as not investigating incriminating and obvious leads, evidence, etc, such as hairs not being tested, DNA results not being shown, tip offs ignored by police, judges and others who were investigating a possible ring were sacked, as well as more than twenty witnesses and other informants who died mysteriously right before going forward with evidence; one person who was officially labeled as dying from a heart attack was in fact shown to have been poisoned, others threatened with murders and "accidents", lots of witnesses committing "suicide", all right before giving evidence to police). The investigative judge, Connerotte, who rescued two of the raped girls who were kidnapped by Dutroux and his accomplices, was sacked because he believed there was a gang or mafia related pedophile ring that reached high levels of elite. Lots of evidence and facts point that there is a pedophile ring, with Michel Nihoul being a possible ringleader. Nihoul and others have enjoyed a lot of protection from the government.
Another very strange thing is the fact that Dutroux had already been a convicted rapist in the 80s, after raping at least 5 children (girls). He only served a mere few years out of 12 years. Shortly after getting out, in the early 90s, he was at it again, and allegedly selling girls abroad, to other traffickers. He constructed an elaborate cell, dungeon, in which he raped and held girls. What is very strange is that he was released so early for the rape of 5 children, and that police already had him on a suspect list and yet when children went missing, of which he was named a possible suspect, he was not investigated for over a year, even after tip offs (from his mother, that he was holding girls at his house, and other tips). The police eventually went there, and heard sounds of children shouting (which were actually the victims), but accepted Dutroux's excuse that the sounds were just children playing outside, while knowing this guy was already a convicted child rapist and suspect and they had already received tip-offs at that point. But oh, no, they "couldn't" search for or find them. While the police were there, Dutroux in fact had two girls hostage in his underground, hidden dungeon cell. When the girls were finally found, later, it was too late and they were dead. Two more were found buried in his garden, they had been raped and buried alive. Two girls were freed, alive, but had been raped: Sabinne Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez.
Dutroux already had criminal ties to Michel Nihoul (car thefts and drug trafficking in Belgium and to Eastern Europe<-- red flag! they may have known sex trafficking connections), a businessman and pedophile, who organized orgy parties of which high level people too part of (police, judges, EU politician, etc), and in which witnesses say children were raped. Witnesses also say there were sadomasochistic rapes and even murders done, that Nihoul organized or was a part of, and in which a younger Dutroux was a part of as well. There were tapes found at one of Dutroux's 7 houses, one of which shows Dutroux raping a child in Slovakia, and pornographic pictures of gypsy children. Witnesses said that Dutroux and Nihoul and the ring had plans of trafficking children to and from Eastern Europe.
Here is what Connerote, the initial investigative judge in the case, who rescued the two live girls, said about being threatened because of the truth being suppressed:
"On the witness stand, Jean-Marc Connerotte, the original judge of the case, broke down in tears when he described "the bullet-proof vehicles and armed guards needed to protect him against the 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. We were told by police that [murder] contracts had been taken out against the magistrates." Connerotte testified that the investigation was seriously hampered by protection of suspects by people in the government. "Rarely has so much energy been spent opposing an inquiry," he said. He believed that the Mafia had taken control of the case.[6] from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux#Allegations_of_massive_cover-up
The Belgian people were so frustrated at the failing judicial and law enforcement systems that they, along with the victims' parents, protested: more than 300,000 Belgians protested in their capital, Brussels, in what was called the White March: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_March
Please read: BBC: Belgian Sex Ring Ignored: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1774436.stm
BBC: "Authorities in Belgium are trying to prevent the circulation of a list of suspected or convicted paedophiles": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/874363.stm
To learn about this case, here is a documentary by Olenka Frenkiel, a British journalist:
Belgium's X Files. An Olenka Frenkiel investigation
