Demolitionists have started to tear down the home of the Belgian child murderer Marc Dutroux in Marcinelle, a borough of the city of Charleroi. Dutroux shocked Belgium with the kidnapping, kidnapping and rape of six girls in the 1990s. He killed four of them. At various times he held his young victims in his home, which is now making way for a memorial garden.
The building was perceived as a deep scar in the city. The board had already expropriated it in 2009 and wants to get rid of it. In consultation with the parents of the victims, it was decided to demolish and furnish a memorial garden. Only the cellars remain.
Dutroux was arrested in 1996 while holding two kidnapped girls in the Marcinelle house. The latter victims were rescued alive by the police. Dutroux owned several houses in the region. In the garden of one of them, in Sars-la-Buissière, he buried the bodies of two girls he had left to starve in Marcinelle. An accomplice, Bernard Weinstein, was also buried there after Dutroux had killed him. The municipality wants to create a memorial park there.
The now 65-year-old man has a life sentence and has now been imprisoned for 25 years. In addition to the victims of the Dutroux case, as the case of the six Belgian girls became known, he was also convicted of a series of other rapes, including three Slovak girls as victims. Dutroux has repeatedly requested early release, but those requests have always been rejected. According to psychiatrists, he still poses a great danger.
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