[PoetsOfTheFall]

4 February 2013


The notorious paedophile and serial killer Marc Dutroux could be freed from jail just nine years after being jailed for life for a series of child murders which shocked his native Belgium and the rest of the world.

Dutroux, 57, kidnapped young girls and imprisoned them in tiny dungeons beneath his home before raping them and killing them in the 1990s.

He was sentenced to life in prison in 2004.But today the reviled killer appeared before a court in Brussels seeking to be released early and placed under house arrest with an electronic tag.

Shortly after his arrest in 1996 two teenage girls were found alive in one of the specially constructed cells which Dutroux had built.

His accomplice ex-wife Michelle Martin, 53, who left two other girls to starve to death whilst her husband was in custody, was jailed for 30 years for crimes including abduction in 2004.

She was released last year despite angry protests in Belgium.

She is now living with nuns in Malonne, where hundreds of furious villagers staged a mass demonstration upon her arrival at the convent to embark upon a period of ten years 'at prayer'.

Now under Belgian law Dutroux could also be freed, as he will have served one third of his minimum sentence when his years spent in custody are taken into account.
His legal request to be released was heard by a judge in a closed hearing at the Palace of Justice in Brussels today, where protestors gathered brandishing signs emblazoned with the slogan: 'Dutroux should stay in jail'. The courthouse was sealed off by police officers for the duration of the controversial hearing.

A ruling on the request is not expected before February 18.

The families of three of the young victims are due to lodge a formal complaint against the request via the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.



Source:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#axzz2JxPzJ3Md

[Faline]

Here's documentary on him
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...monster-94470/

[Megamel29]

I hope they don't let him out. I guess they don't do consecutive sentences there?

[Viking64]

I hope they DO let him out and proper justice is served by some angry victim's parents. No, 2 "wrongs" don't make a "right". But there's nothing "right" about this anyway, so fuck it.

[bdjackass318]

Wow countries in Europe give such light sentences to the worst of criminals.

[Pyramid_Head]

What a justice system.

[Johnny Wadd]

WTF

[Johnny Wadd]

"Both Dutroux and Martin were jailed in the 1980s for kidnapping and raping five young girls, but were freed early on good behaviour - only to go on to abduct more young victims."

So they think he's fixed now

I'd bet he's more dangerous than ever,and,he's got a chip on his shoulder

[gatagato]

I don't think he'll be freed: according to belgian laws he's now actually free to ASK to be placed under house arrest, as well as judges are free to say "no", plain and simple: it's extremely unlikely that his request will even just be taken seriously, the families of some of the victims are due to lodge a formal complaint against the request via the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, nobody in the world wants to see the bastard out of jail plus Belgium has come under international pressure to keep him into a cage, he has one chance over a million to be freed in my opinion.

[Megamel29]

Well, they've already let his wife go. And if you read this article http://http://www.independent.co.uk/...d-8091716.html

it shows she was involved enough that she shouldn't be free now. She let two of her husbands victims starve to death in his makeshift dungeon while he was in prison for some other more minor crime. I don't care that she is with nuns and allegedly doing penance. She could have saved at least two lives. She didn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux His wiki is pretty interesting.