by blanc » Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:20 am
There is a timeline on the dutroux affair on <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3794985.stm">bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3794985.stm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> which is a place to start.<br>The white march, the public outcry, was real enough Joe.<br>Then the cover-up really swung into action, with a view to limiting the damage to small fry (Dutroux) and keeping the names of the great and .... who used his services well out of it.<br>To do this, they had to squash the evidence of the x's - a number of witnesses from different areas who told the same story. These witnesses were discredited by allowing the lawyer acting for the parents of the young woman murdered at the mushroom farm to look at the evidence and publicly discount it, not in a element by element breakdown, but by making a broad brush claim that it was not credible and that she knew who the murderer was. The parents had not long before received help to employ her expensive services. She was also representing Ariel Sharon on another matter. Her past cases, though they had included criminal work, had also given her a sort of kudos as a spokesperson for women. The evidence which had been collated by the police was very extensive, in fact they had to find an extra building to house it. This evidence, many statements, were never indexed and cross referenced. It is unimaginable that any one person could have read through it and evaluated it in the few days it was with the lawyer. It was basically squashed. Some of that evidence has been obtained since. (I have not read the French book on the usbject which has been subject to complaint from the Belgian royal family - but have read extensive preliminary notes by another author which include translations of some of this evidence) I don't know if the french book deals with this aspect, but the squashed testimony is interesting (if that's the right word for something so sickening) because persons not in touch with each other produce correlating details - we are not talking about run of the mill abuse (horrid expression I know) but very particular sadistic traits of named persons, and details of places and organisation. <br> <p></p><i></i>