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Authors: Joël van der Reijden
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Beyond the Dutroux Affair II
Issue No 12
Jean-Marc Connerotte, sacked from the Dutroux investigation before it ever really got off the ground.
The problem here was that Sabine and Laetitia, the girls he had personally rescued from Dutroux’s dungeon, were present at this meeting as guests of honor. The lawyers of Dutroux and Nihoul had gotten wind of this visit and began a successful procedure to remove Connerotte, arguing that the examining magistrate had shown with this visit that he wasn’t carrying out his investigation objectively enough.
Connerotte barely stayed an hour, but with this visit he and Bourlet (who also went) made yet another effort to change the consensus view that the justice department wasn’t interested in parents of missing children or victims of child abuse.
Beyond the Dutroux Affair I
Issue No 12
“Only very few reporters are still listening to me, listen to my cry for help. They are not allowed to publish or broadcast. They all tell me that they are stonewalled by their bosses… The aggression of some of the magazines, newspapers and tv programs is frightening. This is not normal anymore, this is a war in which the victims have become disposable waste.”

