• Noven [any]
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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

      • Noven [any]
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        1 year ago

        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

        kind-vladimir-ilyich

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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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            • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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              Yeah that's why it was fresh in my memory, but I managed to find the original newspaper long read from years ago and posted it above if you're interested.

          • aqwxcvbnji [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            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.

            What's you source for that? Would love to learn more.

          • Noven [any]
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            I know of a few dutch Gladio/underworld links from Peter R. de Vries (who was assassinated a couple years ago)

            The dutch drug lord Klaas Bruinsma

            After his release in 1987, Bruinsma restructured his drug organization [...] a new division for exploitation of gambling machines was formed under the supervision of Sam Klepper and John Mieremet, and Roy Adkins was appointed leader of the drug division.

            A Dutch investigative television program revealed on 9 September 2007, that another arms cache that had belonged to Gladio had been ransacked in the 1980s. It was located in a park near Scheveningen. Some of the stolen weapons, including hand grenades and machine guns, later turned up when police officials arrested criminals John Mieremet and Sam Klepper in 1991.

            When Prince Johan Friso asked the Dutch parliament in 2003 for permission to marry Mabel Wisse Smit, Dutch media published details of her relationship with Bruinsma, who was shot and killed in 1991 in front of the Amsterdam Hilton hotel. As a result, the couple decided not to seek parliament’s permission for their marriage, which resulted in Friso renouncing his right to the throne.

            The dutch kidnapper Koos Hertogs

            For a long time there were rumors that Hertogs had protection from high-level individuals. In the book Zuidwal, that tells the story of the serial killer, it is claimed that Hertogs was protected by Cornelis Stolk, an important judge and vice president of the court

            In 2009 crime reporter Peter R. de Vries started a sting operation, trying to reveal if Hertogs murdered more people or if the claims made in the book were true. While being filmed with hidden cameras, Hertogs, talking with a 'dear' friend, who turned out to be an infiltrator working for De Vries, made some notable admissions:

            • He admitted he kidnapped and murdered the three girls.
            • With the murder of Edith Post he had an accomplice.
            • Confessed knowing who murdered the two Swedish women, Gun-Ingeborg Johannesson (18) and Ann Jönsson (19), in a forest near La Roche-en-Ardenne.
            • Confessed he had a special bond with judge Cornelis Stolk. Stolk paid for the driver's license of Hertogs and after an earlier conviction Stolk placed him under the care of a 'befriended' psychiatrist, who later turned out to be the ex-wife of Stolk. In the end of the television show it was revealed that Hertogs, in return, offered sexual services (oral sex) and child pornography to Cornelis Stolk

            Also interesting to note that like Dutroux, Hertogs is known as a serial killer which ignores the very important context of them being kidnappers for pedophile rings

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