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-Caveat Lector- Murdered Girl's Parents Slam Dutroux 'Fiasco'
13 April 2004
BRUSSELS - The trial of convicted Belgian paedophile and alleged
serial child killer Marc Dutroux was on Tuesday slammed as a fiasco
by the parents of one of his alleged victims.
Dutroux, 47, a previously convicted child rapist, is currently
standing trial in the Belgian city of Arlon on charges of kidnapping
six girls and of murdering and raping four of them.
Carine and Gino Russo, the parents of eight year-old Melissa Russo,
who was found starved to death, issued a statement accusing the
investigating magistrate in charge of the Dutroux case, Jacques
Langlois, of leading an "incompetent" and "foolish" enquiry which has
buried the truth of what happended to their daughter.
The Dutroux case is surrounded in controversy, fired by a series of
bungled investigations, with widespread media speculation that the
unemployed electrician benefited from an official cover-up. Dutroux
himself has claimed he was acting for an influential
paedophile "network", an idea dismissed by the prosecution.
Melissa and another eight year-old, Julie Lejeune, were kidnapped in
June 1995. After Dutroux's arrest in 1998, his now estranged wife
Michelle Martin, who is a co-defendant at the Arlon trial, told
investigators that the girls were held in a basement dungeon under
the couple's home.
Langlois has already told the court that Martin admitted allowing the
girls to starve to death after Dutroux was briefly imprisoned late
1995 for car theft crime.
Melissa's parents have previously made known their criticisms of the
investigation and the trial by refusing to attend the hearings.
Their statement, released on an internet site dedicated to Melissa
and Julie, accused the Belgian judiciary of "killing" any hope of
establishing the facts of the girls' murders.
They were scathing of the Liege court of criminal accusations, which
they described as having the role of a judicial "control tower", for
deciding that the "defficient" investigation led by Langlois was
complete in 2001.
They blame the magistrate for misshandling the case to the point
where the trial is now incapable of discovering the truth about
Dutroux's alleged crimes.
"Numerous questions remain hanging" and the trial has been pursued in
an improper manner, they said..
"When the civil parties and the proscutor asked him (Langlois) for
explanations about the defficiencies of his investigation he didn't
react," their statement read. "Today it is possible to measure the
extent of incompetence, or foolishness, of the investigation."
Dutroux admits rape charges but denies killing the girls.
Martin is accused of conspiracy to kidnap while two other defendants,
Michel Nihoul, 62, and Michel Lelievre, 32, are accused of kidnapping.
The trial continues.
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Murder Finding Revives Sex Killings Scandal
French autopsy shows investigating officer did not take his own life
Jon Henley in Paris
Saturday April 3, 2004
The Guardian
A scandal over how French authorites dealt with a mass murder case
took a new twist yesterday when it emerged that an investigating
gendarme who was thought to have committed suicide was in fact
probably murdered.
An autopsy on the exhumed remains of Christian Jambert, who died in
1997, revealed entry wounds caused by two bullets of apparently
different types and fired from different angles, the public
prosecutor's office in Auxerre confirmed.
"This is a horrifying devel opment," said Didier Seban, the lawyer
for Jambert's daughter, Isabelle, who requested the autopsy. "These
findings clearly are incompatible with suicide. What needs to be
asked now is who killed Christian Jambert, for what reasons, and who
tried to cover it up?"
The autopsy results lend new weight to suspicions that investigations
into the fate of up to 30 young women who vanished over nearly 30
years in northern Burgundy, south-east of Paris, may have been
systematically stifled.
Most of the inquiries were either inexplicably dropped or handled
incompetently. Only two have so far been resolved. Many case files
have since vanished. Relatives believe that the girls were victims of
a high-level sex ring that abducted, raped and murdered more or less
at will throughout the 1960s, '70 and '80s, and then ensured that all
inquiries came to nothing.
The body of warrant officer Jambert was discovered in August 1997,
only weeks before he was due to give evidence to a long-awaited
inquiry into the disappearances. In 1979, he was the first officer to
link the alleged murders of seven women - who lived with foster
families in the Yonne region around Auxerre and vanished between 1977
and 1979 - to the only suspect so far arrested, a retired coach
driver called Emile Louis.
Prosecutors, however, said they did not believe Jambert's evidence,
shelved his investigation and ignored at least three subsequent
requests by the gendarme to have it reopened. Jambert was transferred
to a different town in 1989 and it was not until spring 1997, nearly
20 years after his initial accusations, that a full inquiry was
finally opened into the Yonne cases.
The public prosecutor in Auxerre at the time, Jacques Cazals, ordered
no autopsy into Jambert's death, even though two doctors gave
differing reports of the gunshot wounds. No bullet was found, nor was
the red pen used to write an apparent suicide note.
"If someone had wanted to cover up a murder they could not have done
better," said Mr Seban. Since Jambert's death, the rifle found by his
body, part of the prosecutor's report on his alleged suicide, and a
folder of relevant documents have vanished, he said.
The lawyer has asked the French justice minister, Dominique Perben,
to reopen the inquiry into Jambert's death. Mr Perben said yesterday
he would do everything in his power to ensure the case "is properly
resolved", and would meet victims' relatives and Jambert's children
next week.
Louis, who was recently found guilty of raping his second wife and
her daughter and sentenced to 20 years in prison, is to appear in
court in Auxerre later this year charged with seven murders. Despite
a history of sex offences, he drove the girls - all aged from 16 to
22 and with learning difficulties - to their day-care centres around
the region.
Finally arrested in 2000, Louis, 67, confessed to having sex with the
victims, then murdering them, and led police to two bodies. He has
since retracted his confession and insists the girls were abused,
abducted and killed by a ring of high-ranking local men. He was only
the chauffeur, he claims.
The current chief prosecutor in Auxerre, Suzanne le Qu�au, revealed
in late 2001 that the records of most of the criminal investigations
shelved in Auxerre between 1958 and 1982 - including 17 cases of
missing young women - appeared to have been stolen or destroyed.
She also disclosed that a dozen disturbing post-1982 investigations
for which the files still remained - all of them concerning missing
young women - had been opened and then suddenly dropped.
In 2002, a former justice minister, Marylise Lebranchu, took
disciplinary action against three former Auxerre prosecutors in the
case, including Mr Cazals. All were found guilty of serious errors,
including "lack of professional honour". France's Council of State
overturned the verdict against Mr Cazals last month, allowing him to
take a senior post at the Paris appeal court.
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