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#Dutroux

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People (34)

  • An Marchal Seventeen-year-old from Hasselt abducted with Eefje Lambrecks on the Belgian coast on the night of August 22, 1995; their bodies were found under a shed at Jumet on September 3, 1996.
  • Annie Bouty Brussels lawyer and companion of Jean-Michel Nihoul from 1975 to 1983, convicted of breach of trust in 1989 and fraud in 1997, who testified as a witness at the 2004 Dutroux trial.
  • Bernard Weinstein European Union national living at Jumet and accomplice of Marc Dutroux, owner of the blue Ford Fiesta seen in 1995 surveillance of Dutroux, whose body was found at Dutroux's Sars-la-Buissière property; Dutroux was convicted of his murder in 2004.
  • Christine Van Hees Brussels teenager whose burned body was found in 1984 at a disused mushroom farm in Auderghem; the case was reopened in 1996 on the testimony of the witness X1 and never solved.
  • Claude Thirault Claude Thirault, a petty criminal, assisted Marc Dutroux in 1993 with renovations to a basement at Dutroux's Marcinelle residence, transforming it into a hidden dungeon designed for imprisoning kidnapped girls.
  • Count Leopold Lippens Mayor of Knokke-Heist from 1979 until his death in 2021, grandson of a governor-general of the Congo, named by the X-Dossier witnesses X1 and X2 and investigated in 2020 for conflict of interest.
  • Count Maurice Auguste Lippens Fortis chairman who in July 2008 privately told its chief executive he had never been so afraid for the bank, then publicly urged investors to buy; named by the X-Dossier witness X1.
  • Daniel Waillez Daniel Waillez, a Belgian pornographer, was involved in the production and distribution of child pornography through the Toro Bravo company during the 1990s.
  • Eefje Lambrecks Nineteen-year-old from Hasselt abducted with An Marchal on the Belgian coast on the night of August 22, 1995, after a hypnosis show; their bodies were found under a shed at Jumet on September 3, 1996.
  • Jean-Claude Van Espen Brussels investigating judge of the 1980s and reopened 1997 inquiries into the murder of Christine Van Hees, who suspended the X1 investigators' work in 1997 and was reported to have ties to Nihoul.
  • Jean-Louis Delamotte Jean-Louis Delamotte, a Belgian businessman, served as the manager of Achats Services Commerces (ASCO), a company owned by Michel Nihoul and involved in fraud and vehicle supply during the 1990s.
  • Jean-Marc Connerotte Neufchâteau investigating judge who freed Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez in August 1996, opened the hotline that led to witness X1, and was removed from the Dutroux file in October 1996.
  • Jean-Michel Nihoul Brussels swindler, sex-party regular and gendarmerie informant charged in 1996 as Marc Dutroux's link to a network; acquitted of the kidnappings in 2004 and jailed for drug trafficking.
  • Julie Lejeune Eight-year-old abducted with Melissa Russo at Grâce-Hollogne on June 24, 1995, by Marc Dutroux; the two starved in his Marcinelle cellar and their bodies were found at Sars-la-Buissière on August 17, 1996.
  • Karel Maasdam Karel Maasdam, operating under the alias 'Alex Privee,' ran the Bell Boys callboy service in the Netherlands during the 1980s, which provided underage male prostitutes to senior Dutch judicial and political figures; his networks were connected to international pedophile organizations and were investigated in connection with the Dutroux affair and the Dutch Rolodex Investigation.
  • Katrien de Cuyper Katrien de Cuyper was a Belgian girl whose 1991 disappearance was linked to the Marc Dutroux network through testimony in the X-Dossier.
  • Laetitia Delhez Fourteen-year-old abducted at Bertrix on August 9, 1996, whose abduction led, through a witness's memory of three digits of a license plate, to the arrest of Marc Dutroux on August 12.
  • Marc Dutroux Marc Dutroux, born November 6 1956, operated as a Belgian child trafficker and serial killer whose 1996 arrest exposed connections to international pedophile networks.
  • Marleen De Cokere Brussels companion of Jean-Michel Nihoul, arrested on September 24, 1996, as the twelfth suspect in the Dutroux investigation and described by police as part of its 'inner ring.'
  • Melchior Wathelet Belgian minister of justice who signed Marc Dutroux's conditional release in 1992 over the Mons prosecutor-general's objection, held responsible by the 1997 commission; European Court of Justice judge, 1995-2003.
  • Melissa Russo Eight-year-old abducted with Julie Lejeune near her family's house at Grâce-Hollogne on June 24, 1995; she starved in Marc Dutroux's cellar and her body was found at Sars-la-Buissière on August 17, 1996.
  • Michel Bourlet King's prosecutor at Neufchâteau in the Dutroux case, whose telephone was tapped during a 1998 leak inquiry and who was told in 1997 to stop speaking to the press and victims' parents.
  • Michel Forgeot Michel Forgeot founded Achats Services Commerces (ASCO), a company involved in fraud and vehicle supply during the 1990s.
  • Michel Lelievre Accomplice of Marc Dutroux, arrested with him on August 12, 1996, convicted at Arlon in 2004 of three abductions, sentenced to 25 years and released on conditions in December 2019.
  • Michel Piro Charleroi bar and small-zoo owner, shot dead in December 1996 after telling many people he had revelations on the Julie and Mélissa case; his wife was convicted of ordering the killing.
  • Michelle Martin Wife and accomplice of Marc Dutroux, convicted in 2004 of the sequestration of six victims, including two girls who starved in the cellar; sentenced to 30 years, released in 2012.
  • Philippe Carpentier Philippe Carpentier, a former Belgian justice ministry official, served as a director in the Ministry of Justice during the 1980s and 1990s, including roles in prison administration.
  • Rasti Rostelli Rasti Rostelli was a hypnotist whose stage show preceded the kidnapping of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks by Marc Dutroux.
  • Regina Louf Ghent woman who, as the anonymous witness X1 in the Dutroux inquiry, described childhood prostitution and murders at elite parties; prosecutors closed the related files in April 1998.
  • Rene Michaux Charleroi gendarme who ran the 1995 Operation Othello surveillance of Marc Dutroux, searched his house in December 1995 without finding the cellar, and declared the operation negative in January 1996.
  • Robbie Van Der Plancken Robbie Van Der Plancken was a Belgian national who began as a child prostitute working for Lothar Glandorf and later 'graduated to become an exploiter himself' in the European child trafficking and pornography network.
  • Robert Jan Warmerdam Robert Jan Warmerdam operated as a transvestite prostitute in Amsterdam, Netherlands, providing testimony that linked child trafficking networks to the Marc Dutroux case and the Apollo Bulletin Board Service during the late 1990s.
  • Sabine Dardenne Twelve-year-old from the Tournai area abducted by Marc Dutroux on May 27, 1996, and freed from his Marcinelle cellar with Laetitia Delhez on August 15, 1996.
  • Tony Van den Boggaert Family friend of Regina Louf (witness X1) who, her parents told police, had a key to their home and access to their twelve-year-old daughter, and who admitted his relationship with her to police.

Organizations (2)

  • Bell Boys Bell Boys was a Dutch callboy service operated by Karel Maasdam under the alias 'Alex Privee' that supplied minors to clients in the Netherlands and internationally; it appears in this vault as a central node of the organized Dutch pedophile network investigated under the Rolodex Investigation, with connections to the Belgian-Dutch child abuse network examined in the Marc Dutroux X-Dossier inquiry.
  • Pedophile Information Exchange The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) was a British organization founded in 1974 that lobbied for the legalization of adult-child sexual contact; it maintained connections to international pedophile networks in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States, and several of its members were subsequently convicted of child sexual abuse.

Places (5)

  • Amsterdam Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands and a city whose presence in this vault relates primarily to three intersecting subjects: the Dutch and international pedophile advocacy networks operating through publications based there in the 1970s-1980s, Francis Shelden's flight there after the North Fox Island abuse network collapsed, and the city's role as a node in European arms brokering networks.
  • Belgium Belgium is the location of the Marc Dutroux child abduction and murder case, the X-Dossier investigation into elite pedophile networks, NATO headquarters, and was also implicated in the Gladio stay-behind network; its political and aristocratic establishment figures are named throughout the vault's Dutroux investigation materials.
  • Festival Bar The Festival Bar was an Amsterdam establishment operating as a boy brothel that was identified in Dutch pedophile network investigations of the 1990s as a venue frequented by Karel Maasdam and members of the broader Dutch-Belgian child abuse network; it appears in this vault through its documentation in the Rolodex Investigation and the testimony of witnesses connected to the Marc Dutroux affair.
  • Netherlands The Netherlands appears in this vault primarily in connection with the Dutch pedophile network investigations (the Rolodex Investigation, Joris Demmink, Karel Maasdam's Bell Boys), Amsterdam as a hub for international pedophile organizations, and Francis Shelden's final years in exile there.
  • Zandvoort Zandvoort is a Dutch North Sea coastal resort town that came to prominence in vault-related investigations as the location of the Apollo Bulletin Board Service, a child pornography distribution network whose archives were discovered in 1998 and contained evidence of a large-scale international child abuse production and distribution operation with connections to the broader Belgian-Dutch pedophile network investigated in connection with the Dutroux affair.