A big white march was organized today in Brussels by the parents of the victims in the Dutroux case. Factual images that alternate with interviews with Jean-Denis Lejeune, Julie’s father, Gino Russo, Mélissa’s father, Marie-Noëlle Bouzet, mother of Elisabeth Brichet and the reactions of demonstrators who came to show their support to these grieving parents who became national heroes.
In Belgium, it is the end of a judicial marathon. As expected, as requested by the prosecution, Marc Dutroux was sentenced to life imprisonment, the harshest sentence in Belgian law. Satisfaction of victims and families of victims, on the other hand more reserved about the sentences pronounced against the accomplices of the pedophile. Commentary on factual images of the protagonists of the trial alternating with interviews with the parents of the victims, Betty Marchal, Patricia Martin and Jean-Denis Lejeune.
Belgium is shocked the day after the discovery of the bodies of two girls at the home of Marc Dutroux, also responsible for the abduction and sequestration of four other teenagers, two of whom were found alive on Thursday. A gathering in front of Melissa’s house was organized with a flower depot and a press conference by Maître HISSEL, family lawyer. Factual images alternate with the testimonies of angry anonymous.
A year after the Dutroux case, a white march in Belgium to Sars-la-Buissière, to remember the victims. Factual images of the gathering and then of the mass in the presence of the mothers of the victims, alternating with reactions of demonstrators and the interview of Gino RUSSO, Melissa’s father, who created the association Julie and Melissa. He talks about his psychological state on this sad anniversary and his disappointment with the Belgian justice system: "All the energy we put into it... not much has changed".
Before the opening on Monday in Belgium of the trial of Marc Dutroux, portrait of the accused from the psycho angle. Commentary on archival images of Marc Dutroux who alternates with interviews with Philippe Van Meerbeeck of the Medical Psychology Unit of the Catholic University of Louvain and Martine Van Praet, lawyer for Marc Dutroux and Janine Lauwens, the mother of the accused.