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The Dutroux Affair is a wild one to dig into, mostly because of how similarly the Epstein affair played out a few years later. A known pedophile finally gets convicted after the police spend years avoiding his arrest and in the end none of the clients are discovered

In 1995, Dutroux’s mother wrote a letter to the authorities stating that she knew that Dutroux had kidnapped two girls and was keeping them at his house.

After Lejeune and Russo were kidnapped in June 1995, it took police 14 months to arrest Dutroux, although he had been a prime suspect from the start, having committed similar crimes before. During the search for Lejeune and Russo, police visited Dutroux’s house, where Lejeune and Russo were held, twice, on 13 and 19 December 1995 without finding them. Several video tapes found during the search were never looked at. Some of them showed Dutroux constructing the dungeon in which Lejeune and Russo were held. Michel Bourlet, who was appointed lead investigator, said that some of the video tapes had disappeared and that he wanted to have them all recovered and reviewed.

There were countless hairs found in the dungeon where the two girls were held. Judge Langlois refused to have them tested for DNA evidence even though the leading police investigator, Michel Bourlet, had begged him to have them analyzed in order to know whether more people beside Dutroux were involved.

At least seven members of law enforcement were arrested on suspicion of having ties to Marc Dutroux. One of them was Georges Zico, a police detective believed to be an associate of Dutroux.

More than 20 potential witnesses in the case died in mysterious circumstances

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belgium in general is a beating heart of evil hiding in plain sight

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Having been there, I would honestly glass the entire country from space like the Arbiter.

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When you play host to the EU and NATO its no surprise you end up with the biggest cocaine port in Europe, a vast pedophile ring and a police force so corrupt it had to be abolished

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Do the Netherlands next!

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Don’t forget the Brabant Killers, the ultra-violent but suspiciously professional gang that did low paying but bloody robberies, were likely special forces or elite cops, may have been a disguised right-wing hit squad, had lots of links to Gladio groups funded by the CIA, and one of the main suspects was the best friend and accomplice of the guy who was the head flight instructor at the Florida aviation school that trained the 9/11 hijackers, whose father was also likely CIA.

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For additional irony it was based on Belgian Congo.

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