🚀 go-pugleaf

People keep changing the subject from the original topic to
a discussion on something completely different, usually childish
name-calling.
They do not want the TOPIC discussed.

The information has to keep flowing , so read on:
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Video:

Ted Gunderson shows the link between Satanic ritual-abuse, drug
trafficking, and the international
trafficking in children by the CIA.
http://tinyurl.com/ya86ey
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quote:
 'I have been reading along, watching the videos, and it is very
interesting, especially, about informants being used, while they are on
a killing spree.There are indeed some nasty things being done in high
places.

I am uncertain, maybe because I grew up in Montreal, Angel Territory. I
know the gangs have had rival fights, etc, over turf, drugs.

It bothers me also, pedophiles, and the HA, getting along. So many are
married with kids, or have sisters, etc..

A lot is spoken of happenings in the USA, I wonder if you have any info
on the hub, or triangle, in the Province of BC,as this lady wrote, that
she worked with victims from there. Also, have you heard of the Process
Church cult? . I do believe in cults, and I fear this is widespread,
and may end up reaching into the states.

PS: Say there has been a long time cult going on, then they would
probably take something from the victim, to the people they obey., to
show it was done. It is very confusing to say the least

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Quote:

'I have not had time to visit all these links and watch all the videos,
but I was googling cult activity and Satanism in BC. Came up with an
article about a 30+ year member of the VPD who used to investigate
child abuse cases ... Detective Constable Charles Ennis, aka Kerr
Cuhulain who is also head honcho of an organization called Officers of
Avalon (policeman, firefighters, EMTs, etc. of Wicca and the Pagan
religion). He notes that Dr. Willi Gutowski, a psychiatrist who worked
out of Chilliwack General Hospital, had some patients who committed
suicide, and the article indicates that it was possibly related to
Gutowski's treatment received while undergoing therapy due to Satanic
cult involvement. I can't help but wonder if the suicides might just be
more related to the cult activity/involvement rather than Dr.
Gutowski's treatment??

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:1kctPz0ktxEJ:www.witchvox.com/va/...

I have read a couple of the Ennis/Cuhulain articles and note that he
appears as bigoted towards Christians as he claims Christians are
towards Wicca. He has authored The Law Enforcement Guide to Wicca,
Wiccan Warrior and Full Contact Magick: A Book of Shadows for the
Wiccan Warrior, and Witch Hunts: Out of the Broom Closet (Spiral
Publishing).
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Fantastic Quigley. This is nearly THE most important find so far.
Kerr Cuhulain is based in Surrey, B.C. He has started an occult police
officers association called Officers of Avalon.
Piggy Palace (and Robert Pictons farm) is very near Surrey, B.C. , just
N.E.
of Surrey in Port Coquitlam. Ironically, Cuhulain was a child abuse
investigator
for the Vancouver Police Dept.

This also fits the pattern of the cult putting their own people in key
positions of authority re: police, child abuse, missing persons.
(remember disgraced teen fondler, Congressman Mark Foley was chairman
of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal

Some info on the Picton pig farm cult:

Quote:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/robert_pickton/6...

Late in 1998, task force detectives got their best lead yet from
37-year-old Bill Hiscox. Widowed two years earlier, Hiscox had turned
to drugs and alcohol after his wife died, rescued from the downhill
slide when his foster sister found him a job at P&B Salvage in Surrey,
southeast of Vancouver. The proprietors were Robert William "Willie"
Pickton and his brother David, of Port Coquitlam. Hiscox's helpful
relative was Robert Pickton's "off-and-on" girlfriend in 1997, and
Hiscox picked up his paychecks at the brothers' Port Coquitlam pig
farm, described by Hiscox as "a creepy-looking place" patrolled by a
vicious 600-pound boar. "I never saw a pig like that, who would chase
you and bite at you," he told police. "It was running out with the dogs
around the property."

Robert William (Willie) Pickton

Hiscox had grown concerned about the Picktons after reading newspaper
reports on Vancouver's missing women. Robert Pickton was "a pretty
quiet guy, hard to strike up a conversation with, but I don't think he
had much use for men." Pickton drove a converted bus with deeply tinted
windows, Hiscox told authorities. "It was Willie's pride and joy," he
said, "and he wouldn't part with it for anything. Willie used it a
lot." The brothers also ran a supposed charity, the Piggy Palace Good
Times Society, registered with the Canadian government in 1996 as a
non-profit society intended to "organize, co-ordinate, manage and
operate special events, functions, dances, shows and exhibitions on
behalf of service organizations, sports organizations and other worthy
groups." According to Hiscox, the "special events" convened at Piggy
Palace--a converted building at the hog farm--were drunken raves that
featured "entertainment" by an ever-changing cast of Downtown Eastside
prostitutes.

David Francis Pickton

Police were already familiar with the Pickton brothers. David Francis
Pickton had been convicted of sexual assault in 1992, fined $1,000 and
given 30 days' probation. His victim in that case told police Pickton
had attacker her in his trailer, at the pig farm, but she managed to
escape when a third party came in and distracted him. Port Coquitlam
authorities sought an order to destroy one of David's dogs in April
1998, under the Livestock Protection Act, but the proceedings were
later dismissed without explanation. Pickton had also been sued three
times for damages, resulting from traffic accidents in 1988 and 1991,
settling all three claims out of court.

Soon after Piggy Palace opened, the Pickton brothers and their sister,
Linda Louise Wright, found themselves in court again, sued by Port
Coquitlam officials for allegedly violating city zoning ordinances.
According to the complaint, their property was zoned for agricultural
use, but they had "altered a large farm building on the land for the
purpose of holding dances, concerts and other recreations" that
sometimes drew as many as 1,800 persons. Following a New Year's Eve
party on December 31, 1998, the Picktons were slapped with an
injunction banning future parties, the court order noting that police
were henceforth "authorized to arrest and remove any person" attending
public events at the farm. The "society" finally lost its nonprofit
status in January 2000, for failure to provide mandatory financial
statements.

Other charges filed against Robert Pickton were more serious. In March
1997 he was charged with the attempted murder of a drug-addicted
prostitute, Wendy Lynn Eistetter, whom he stabbed several times in a
wild melee at the pig farm. Eistetter told police that Pickton
handcuffed and attacked her on March 23, but that she escaped after
disarming him and stabbing him with his own knife. A motorist found
Eistetter beside the highway at 1:45 a.m. and took her to the nearest
emergency room, while Pickton sought treatment for a single stab wound
at Eagle Ridge Hospital. He was released on $2,000 bond, but the charge
was later dismissed without explanation in January 1998.

The stabbing had crystallized Bill Hiscox's suspicion about Robert
Pickton, whom he called "quite a strange character." Aside from the
assault, Hiscox told police, there were "all the girls that are going
missing, and all the purses and Ids that are out there in his trailer
and stuff." Pickton, Hiscox told detectives, "frequents the downtown
area all the time, for girls."

Police recorded Hiscox's statement and a detective accompanied him to
the pig farm, afterward vowing "to push the higher-ups, all the way to
the top, to investigate." Subsequent press reports indicate that the
farm was searched three times, apparently without result. The brothers
would remain on file, "persons of interest" to the inquiry, but no
surveillance would be mounted on the farm.

Back in Vancouver, meanwhile, the list of missing women grew longer,
with no end in sight.

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I checked Google Maps for an aerial view of the general area where
Piggy Palace and the Picton pig farm is located:

It is in Port Coquitlam, which is just NorthEast of Surrey, B.C. where
our Officers of Avalon cult friends are headquartered.
Notice the big nearby rail yard. Port Coquitlam appears to be a massive

inland river /rail port, from what I can tell the biggest such port in
the Vancouver area.
This would mean a preponderance of international shipping (particularly
Asian) This would be the same area/source for the stories of women
disappearing onto ships.
If anyone can find any reference to tunnels or mines or Hells Angels
etc. in the Surrey or Port Coquitlam area
that might be useful.

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Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Posts: 76
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:47 pm    Post subject:

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Check this out: the Hells Angels entire Vancouver chapter is also
located
in Port Coquitlam. So we have Officers of Avalon (police), the Pickton
pig cult,
and the Hells Angels all headquartered in the same area immediatelly
surrounding
this massive rail port:

http://tinyurl.com/srtaa

Quote:
Neal Hall, VANCOUVER SUN
Published: Tuesday, October 17, 2006
A high-profile member of the Vancouver Hells Angels says people have
been rude to him and he has experienced "fear and loathing" from the
public at supermarkets, restaurants and other places after an Ontario
court ruling last year that found the Hells Angels is a criminal
organization, a Vancouver judge was told Monday.

In an affidavit filed in B.C. Supreme Court, Rickey Ciarniello, 61, the
president of the Vancouver chapter, who has been a member of the Hells
Angels since 1983, says he has always proudly worn his Hells Angels
insignia, known as colours, but since the Ontario ruling he has
experienced "harassment, stigma and ostracism that membership would now
seem to entail."

He was wearing a black jacket in court Monday that said in small
letters on the front: Vancouver Hells Angels.

His affidavit, obtained by The Vancouver Sun, claims he is a
law-abiding Hells Angels member who is "not responsible for the
criminal acts that have, at times, been committed by some of its
members."

His affidavit recalled that after the Ontario ruling, Ciarniello went
to a restaurant called Joey Tomatoes wearing his colours and overheard
a couple asking to be moved because they didn't want to sit next to a
criminal.

"Following that I was quite uncomfortable and decided to leave the
restaurant," said the affidavit.

"I have noticed a marked difference in the way that people respond to
me when I am wearing my colours," Ciarniello said in his affidavit.

"The mood has gone from friendly and casual curiosity to fear, loathing
and avoidance such that I am now made to feel uncomfortable wearing the
HAMC [Hells Angels Motorcycle Club] insignia."

Since the Ontario judgment, his affidavit says, staff members at the
local Safeway near his PORT COQUITLAM  home -- where he has purchased
groceries for 20 years -- are not as friendly as they used to be, and
he's received similar treatment at a Shell gas station.

His affidavit also states that John Bryce, president of the East End
chapter of the Hells Angels, was refused as a customer of the Bank of
Nova Scotia, after two decades of business with it, after the Ontario
ruling.

And Ciarniello says while he regularly spoke to the media on behalf of
the Hells Angels in B.C. and nationally, he has generally refrained
from speaking out to the same extent after the ruling because he is
concerned that "I may be charged with participating in the activities
of a criminal organization...."

He said the effect of the Ontario ruling "is to declare me a member of
a criminal organization notwithstanding that I have never engaged in
the promotion of criminal conduct."

His affidavit was filed as part of his constitutional challenge of all
the sections of the Criminal Code making it illegal to participate,
direct or instruct people for the benefit of a criminal organization.

He claims the Ontario Superior Court ruling in the case known as
Lindsay and Bonner has caused a stigma to belonging to the Hells Angels
in B.C., which infringes his section seven rights of life, liberty and
security of person.

n...@png.canwest.com

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http://www.thenownews.com/issues05/112105/news/112105nn2.html

Quote:
Hells Angels members get four years

By Jennifer Saltman - Staff Reporter

Two senior members of the Vancouver chapter of the Hells Angels - which
is based in Coquitlam - were each sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court
Monday to four years in jail for drug trafficking.

Surrey resident Norman Edward Krogstad, 58, who police say is the
president of the Vancouver chapter, and 55-year-old Langley resident
Cedric Baxter Smith, a senior member of the chapter, had pleaded guilty
earlier to 11 counts of cocaine trafficking.

The two were sentenced by Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm for
their role in trafficking almost 10 kilograms of cocaine bought by a
former biker who was working as an undercover police agent.

Smith was also fined $100,000 for his role in the trafficking
operation, during which the police agent bought nine kilograms and 24
ounces of cocaine between June 2003 and September 2004.

When police raided Smith's home, they seized $73,000 in cash - and Dohm
ordered Smith to pay $27,500 on top of that to satisfy payment of the
fine.

Krogstad and Smith were among 10 men arrested on the Lower Mainland and
in Prince George in January after a 20-month-long joint police
investigation.

The investigation resulted in firearm and drug-trafficking charges
against six members and associates of the Prince George Renegades
motorcycle club and four members and associates of the Hells Angels'
Vancouver chapter.

Undercover police officers bought large quantities of drugs, stolen
property and illegal guns were purchased from various members of
Vancouver- and Prince George-based Hells Angels, and their associates.

In Vancouver and Prince George, investigators seized more than
$100,000, 25 pounds of marijuana, 14 kilograms of cocaine and
restricted and prohibited weapons.

The Angels' COQUITLAM clubhouse was not searched during the operation.
The Vancouver chapter has approximately 16 members
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From:

Quote:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=16079

"A special team investigating the cases," reported the New York Times
on Saturday, November 23, 2002, "arrived and found body parts in a
freezer, as well as purses and other personal effects later linked to
the missing.... Not one body has been found intact, and a wood chipper
and Mr. Pickton's pigs are believed to have devoured much of the
evidence."

The Scene of the Crimes

"There are no whole bodies at the pig farm," says Elaine Allan, a
former coordinator for a DES drop-in center for sex workers. While
employed there in the late '90s, she worked with almost 20 of the women
who are believed to have been murdered by Robert Pickton, dismembered,
and fed to his pigs. In her late 30s with medium-length hair, an
intelligent air, and attentive eyes, Allan's voice expresses an almost
aching sensitivity for the victims.

"I can't tell you exactly what they have found on the farm because of
the ban on that information. You know about the ban?" I say that I do,
but the local papers have reported about the feet, teeth, and bones.
Everyone knows about the body parts, the pigs, the wood chipper, the
freezers. Indeed, the animal rights organization PETA had planned to
place a large ad in the Province describing the murders in horrifying
detail. ("They were drugged and dragged across the room," the PETA ad
began. "Their struggles and cries went unanswered.... [b]They were
slaughtered and their heads were sawed off.... Their body parts were
refrigerated.... And their bones discarded. [/b]It's Still Going On.
Please remember that this scenario is a reality for more than 640
million sensitive individuals who lose their lives every year in this
country for nothing more than the taste of their 'meat.'")

What detail could Allan possibly tell me that wasn't already known? Was
there more than dismembered women in the meat freezer, in the teeth of
the wood chipper, or the guts of the pigs? Were there worse details,
more horrifying details?

"Yes," she says. "It's worse than you can imagine."
Now for the truly sickening part, if this were not bad enough

I followed the street address provided in the above news article, the
street address for the pig farm: 953 Dominion Avenue (Dominion
Triangle)
on Google Maps, and I found that the swatch of farmland actually
borders the massive rail yard and inland sea port. The above article
also mentions that women from Seattle started disappearing at the same
time, and my guess is that this is not the only other city involved.

Now it starts to get truly strange:

I did a Google on the most famous Hells Angel in history
Sonny Barger
During the course of my search I came upon a biker-connected band
known as Spiralarms.
The bass player for Spiralarms, known as 'Spiralbass' (has a Myspace
page)

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&frie...

and on his page I found this:
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h186/MANTIS11/enemy/gutsyjm3io9.gif

(edited by Hazel, sorry TD just too graphic for me, and if too graphic
for me I am sure its too graphic for others. However, I left the link
intact, if anyone wants to see this image, cut and paste away. Thanx)

I got curious about this guy , and found that he is from Benicia,
California.
I did a Google Earth on Benicia, California.
Benicia is literally just across the river from Mount Diablo, on the
north side , and not far geographically from Bohemian Grove (approx. 70
miles SE). It is another port city, this time for Concord Naval Weapons
Base.
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/bohemian_grove_maps.h...

Now back to our friend Kerr Kuhulain (detective constable Charles
Ennis):

Kuhulain and his books are prominent on this site:
http://spiralpublishinginc.com/osCommerce/

this is Kuhulain's publisher : Spiral Publishing.

Spiral Arms
Spiral Publishing

The goddess depicted above is Kali

>From http://tinyurl.com/yxjms2

"Cannibalism (more precisely, anthropophagy) is an age-old tradition
that, judging by a constant stream of flabbergasted news reports, is
far from extinct. Much-debated indications exist that our Neanderthal,
Proto-Neolithic, and Neolithic (Stone Age) predecessors were cannibals.
Similarly contested claims were made with regards to the 12th century
advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the
Minoans in Crete (today's Greece)."

The Britannica Encyclopedia (2005 edition) recounts how the "Binderwurs
of central India ate their sick and aged in the belief that the act was
pleasing to their goddess, Kali." Cannibalism may also have been common
among followers of the Shaktism cults in India.

Now , are not many of the ships into Port Coquitlam from India?
Is Kerr Kuhulain himself not from India? Remember, if you look at
the Pickton farm on google earth, it right beside both an asian
shipping port and a massive rail yard . This is a colossal scale rail
yard. This is valuable land, and lots of it.

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:39 pm    Post subject:

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http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/10/27/66369.html

Indian cannibal sect eats human corpses, believing it give them
supernatural powers

Quote:
16:42 2005-10-27
A new Indian documentary seeks to shed light on a secretive sect of
Hindu ascetics who allegedly eat human corpses, believing it will make
them ageless and give them supernatural powers.

The 10-minute movie "Feeding on the Dead" delves into the little-known
world of the 1,000-year-old Aghori sect, whose sadhus, or holy men,
purportedly pull bodies from Hinduism's holy river, the Ganges, in
northern India.

The sect has been written about, but rarely filmed performing its
rituals. Cannibalism is illegal in India.

Director Sandeep Singh, who shut down his transport business to pursue
film-making, said it took him more than three months to gain an Aghori
sadhu's trust and persuade him to be filmed while performing a
cannibalistic ritual.

"When we first met the sadhu, he said: 'Rubbish, we don't do this,"'
Singh told The Associated Press in an interview. "It took months before
he admitted to the rituals."

There are about 70 Aghori sadhus at a given time, Singh said. They
remain with the sect for 12 years, and can then return to their
families, he said.

Unlike other Hindu holy men, most of whom are vegetarians and
teetotalers, the Aghoris also drink alcohol.

But it is their consumption of human flesh, a practice whose origins
remain a mystery, which has earned them the condemnation of other
Hindus and relegated most of them to living around crematoriums in the
hills around the northern holy city of Varanasi, where the documentary
was made.

While filming, Singh and three cameramen waited with an Aghori holy
man, whose name is not mentioned in the film, for 10 days in June
before the sadhu found a corpse floating in the Ganges.

Hindus generally cremate the dead, but sometimes ceremonially dispose
of bodies in the Ganges.

"The body was decomposed and bluish in color, but the sadhu was not
afraid about falling sick," Singh said. "He sat on the corpse, prayed
to a goddess of crematoriums and offered some flesh to the goddess
before eating it."

Singh said the sadhu ate part of the corpse's elbow, believing the
flesh would stop him from aging and give him special powers, like the
ability to levitate or control the weather.

The filmmaker said he did not see any such powers displayed, and plans
to continue his research into the sect by filming ascetics at various
intervals during their 12 years as Aghoris, reports the AP.
I.L.

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Posts: 76

 Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:46 pm    Post subject:

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http://tinyurl.com/vvrlq

Quote:
The cruel rites of Kali in no way belong to the past. As the Indian
press currently reports, in recent times more and more incidents of
human sacrifice to the goddess have accumulated, in which it is
primarily children who are offered up. The ancient and universal myth
of the Earth Mother, who consumes her own progeny and fattens herself
with their corpses, who greedily laps up the blood-seed of humans and
animals, who lures life into her abyss and dark hole in order to
destroy it, is actually celebrating a renaissance in contemporary India
(Neumann, 1989, pp. 148-149).

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Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Posts: 1793

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Quote:
this was an operation on an industrial scale Now I am beginning to
understand why the media ban.

Trevor Greene mentions in his book Bad Date 2001, that there was a
Farmer Willie possibly involved, but rather than concentrating on that
aspect, he followed up a lot, on the fear of a lot of the ladies that
women were being taken aboard ships, used as "entertainment" and dumped
over board.

Until now, I did not realize the property bordered the port.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,9024098%255...

Quote:

21mar04

CANADIANS horrified by the discovery of an alleged serial killer in
their midst have been confronted with even worse news -- they may have
eaten animals that ate the victims.

The farmer suspected of killing at least 22 women is feared to have
disposed of their bodies by feeding them to his pigs.

The pigs were then slaughtered on his farm, 30km east of Vancouver, and
the meat given to hundreds of locals.

Police this week confirmed samples of the pig meat probably contained
human DNA, raising the prospect that those living near the farm of
suspected killer Robert William Pickton "ate" his victims.

Pickton, 54, apparently had a habit of slaughtering pigs, wrapping up
the meat and distributing it to associates and friends.

Many of Pickton's victims were prostitutes. The killer regularly gave
pork from his farm to other sex workers.

"Those are my friends that he served up," said one prostitute this week
after learning she may eaten meat contaminated with her friends' DNA.

Families of the missing women expressed shock at the news, with one
telling a Vancouver radio station: "I'm not eating dinner tonight."

Police have asked anyone with frozen pork products from the farm to
turn them into authorities immediately.

Health officials are examining whether human pathogens and diseases
such as hepatitis and HIV could have been transferred through the meat
products.

Police arrested Pickton in February 2002, but only announced this week
they had found human remains and other DNA samples at the farm.

Pickton has been charged with 15 counts of first-degree murder in the
disappearances of women over the past 20 years.

Many of the victims vanished from Vancouver's drug-ridden areas. More
than 60 prostitutes went missing over the past decade and are feared to
have been murdered at the farm.

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So here we have a biker band Spiralarms, and the cover of their
CD contains Kali , the cannibalistic goddess of death, whom is
worshipped in cannibalistic rituals.

The drummer for Spiralarms is from the Mount Diablo/Bohemian Grove area
(where sacrifices are done to Mol-luk , Condor Man, eater of human
flesh) and the drummer also has the cartoon of a human flesh
slaughterhouse on his page.

Then further up the coast in B.C. we have Port Coquitlam, the central
headquarters of the Hells Angels for the entire region, and a gigantic
cannibal restaurant/hall called Piggy Palace, with a slaughterhouse
next to it, situated right next to what could be the most gigantic rail
yard in NA,
and a port servicing ships from Asia.

Finally, we have child-abuse squad occultist Kerr Kuhulain who lives
just SW of Port Coquitlam and publishes occult books
at a publisher by the name of Spiral Press. He has also formed an
occult police organization called The Officers of Avalon.

Now we wonder why the police did nothing for so long?
Quote:
http://www.twpt.com/cuhulain.htm

Kerr Cuhulain A former Air Force officer, Kerr Cuhulain (Vancouver) has
been a police officer for the past twenty years, and a Wiccan for
thirty. He's served on the SWAT team, Gang Crime Unit, and hostage
negotiation team. He travels throughout North America as a popular
speaker at writers' conferences and Pagan festivals, and he has been
the subject of many books, articles, and media interviews. He is the
author of The Law Enforcement Guide to Wicca.

"As a child I was a seeker (though, at the time, I couldn't have told
you what I was looking for). I remember leaving libations from my lunch
box for various Greek Gods while I was in elementary school. I found a
book on Wicca in my high school library 31 years ago and realized that
there was a name for what I believed. There was no turning back after
that."

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Posts: 76

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Quote:
http://tinyurl.com/yg8oov

Vancouver Sun
16 September 1989,

Gutowski, who at that time claimed to have treated five "ritual abuse
survivors in the last four to five years,"(2 is quoted as follows:

"We, as psychiatrists, don't want to believe it at all. But the weight
of evidence about hypnotic regressions convinces us that these things
are actually true. And when you see the reality of the impact it has on
their minds and bodies and emotions, it becomes much more
believable."(29)
"According to Gutowski, at these [occult crime] conferences,
psychiatrists are hearing that survivor's disclosures are pointing to
the fact that prominent people are involved in cult activities.
`They're mayors, lawyers, police, church people- upstanding citizens.
These people are not from Skid Road,' he says."(30)
"Gutowski says evidence gathering is nearly impossible because cults
`go to extreme detail in covering up the remains of people that are
murdered, especially of babies. But I don't think anything is being
done because of the difficulty of getting evidence'".(31)
"Chilliwack's Gutowski estimates that up to half of the one in 3,000
people with multiple personality disorders in Canada have been ritually
abused. The other half have experienced extremely sadistic sexual,
physical, mental, or emotional violence. `The typical memories (of
those who have been ritually abused) are of being tied down,
mutilations in the secrecy of night in graveyards, bushes and forests.
Wounds are inflicted where they're not seen and they are not
deep.'"(32)
"Consistency in the way patients retell the details of their stories
while in trances, as well as cross-patient consistencies in the
recounting of typical cult activities, convinces Gutowski further."(33)

Gutowski's name appears again in the Ottawa Citizen, on March 3, 1990.
Gutowski is quoted as follows:

"Dr. Willi Gutowski, a psychiatrist at the Chilliwack General Hospital
in British Columbia, has dealt with 20 cult survivors since 1985.

"Drugs are a frequent thing that happens, used to confuse (the victims)
so they don't really remember what's reality. That's a purposeful
technique so (memories of the event are) actually blocked out of the
conscious mind and this is where the development of the multiple
personality starts.

"The cult's activities, he says, 'are so gross, that most people who
aren't familiar with the field would say, 'that's not possible'.
Secrecy is one of their biggest weapons."(34)

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willow wrote:

At second Glance I realize Kerr Cuhulain is an alias as you already
mentioned. All I can tell is he is Canadian, doesn't seem to have an
Indian (as in the continent) name or appearance (to me).
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yes, his real name is Charles Ennis. He is not East-Indian.
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Kim Rossmo was treated completely infairly. Instead of getting a medal
for figuring out the geographic evidence suggesting a serial killer was
to blame for the growing number of missing women in the DTES, he was
let go! After being treated like an outcast for quite some time by his
own department and fellow officers.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/06/19/bc_child-porn20060619.html
Quote:
Earlier this year Vancouver police Sgt. John Dragani - who has since
retired - was charged with possession of child pornography after
allegations surfaced in 2005 that he had child porn on his home
computer.

http://hazel8500.wordpress.com/2006/11/12/9-year-vetren-of-rcmp-fired...

Quote:

Tristan Johnson, 35, a nine-yearvetren of the force came under
suspiscion due to an annonymous tip he was accessing child porn from
his home computer. In another stunning display of interdepartmental
cooperation the tip was passed on to the Vancouver police (the suspects
jurisdiction, Surrey.) After 4 months of investigation, they determined
there was enough evidence supporting the tip to fire him, they
approached the suspect and let him know, he chose to resign in the face
of dismissal. The matter is before the Crown.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=65c84a7b-1efc-4...

Quote:

2nd ex-cop faces child-porn probe Prosecutors study report from
Vancouver police department on allegations involving nine-year
veteran's home computer

http://www.mindytran.com/rcmp_sanctioned_killers.htm

Quote:
The RCMP have been aiding a known group of killers to avoid justice for
many years in Canada. These killers were all later identified as
protected police informants. The Police have gone to great lengths to
protect their informants from prosecution and aggressively obstruct the
victims families from having any recourse to justice. These "special"
informants are functioning as Police agents, above the law and in
certain cases, virtually licensed to kill!

Little about the laws governing these "untouchables" is known and
little is ever willingly disclosed by the RCMP. In most cases, Canadian
laws will prohibit you from knowing, or the media from publishing, the
identities of police informants . see- justice department quiz
(question #1)

What is known is that the number of these "informants" is constantly
being increased and they are involved in criminal activity, while at
the same time, the RCMP is urging the public to inform them of any
criminal activity.
see- RCMP website- number of informants (final paragraph)

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Thunkerdrone

Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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So now we may find out the real reason Clifford Olson was able to
sell information on the bodies location to the RCMP?

What really happened? Did Olson do it alone after all? Or was he paid
to take the fall and shut up?

http://www.mindytran.com/canadian_informants.htm

Quote:

Canadian informants

Examples of Canadian informants:

This man confessed to having committed 43 murders in 1986, supposedly
before turning police informant, and assuming a new identity under the
witness protection program.
quote from serial killer index:
hey there! love the sight but have you ever heard of Yves "Apache"
Trudeau? he is a Hells Angel, now under the protection of the Canadian
government due to his turning in his biker cronies. In return for
ratting his buddies out he recieved immunity for some 43 murders he
committed, mostly for revenge and / or money. A pretty prolific killer
I would say
What was Trudeau doing?
see- story
see- short version
full story- the complete story has now been removed from CBC website.
This information is rapidly disappearing from the public domain.

Cory Patterson, another admitted member of these informant/ killers,
claimed that there were others like him. He was never charged, just
relocated. Patterson was found dead after he informed on his police
handlers and disclosed his protected informant status to a journalist.
The CBC fifth Estate investigated and aired the program.
quote-Justice Paul Hermiston couldn't believe what he was hearing.
Never in his career had he heard of such a bizarre case. He was at a
loss to even speculate why the RCMP would hire such a wicked man.
see story

Clifford Robert Olson, Canada's most notorious serial killer, was an
informant and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the police
following his arrest. He was a suspect when there was only one victim,
was heavily implicated when there were three, but went on to kill
eleven innocent children before the authorities finally decided to stop
his killing spree. Before any of these murders began, Olson was well
known to police as 'Bobo" the prison informant, a brutal serial rapist
of young male inmates.
see- Clifford Olson named as informant.
see- Bobo the prison rapist

Olson had also committed approximately eighty rapes around Vancouver
without ever being apprehended!
quote-This is a fellow that committed approximately eighty rapes in
Greater Vancouver. We know from undercover policewomen who were in his
home when he was identified as a suspect that he actually had a map up
on the wall of his apartment, his flat, and on the map he had marked up
the locations of his attacks.
see pg/4- Kim Rossmo
Quote: Since 1981, questions have been raised about the search for
Canada's first known serial killer. This account shows in meticulous
detail, how the investigation unfolded from the outset. It is possible
that Olson might have been stopped early in his rampage, when two
officers, each working separate cases, identified him as a suspect.
see- Olson's full story
To this day, an ex police member, Kettle is continuing to be vocal
about his attempts to have Olson investigated at the time. The RCMP
blocked all attempts. There never was a court case.
see- The best Olson story

The murder of Leo LaChance disclosed the complicity of the Crown and
the RCMP in a cover-up to benefit this killer, a known RCMP informant.
Information regarding this killer's protected informant status was
prohibited from being made known during the court case and even
withheld from the subsequent inquiry.
see- story

This informant was on the RCMP payroll when he killed two people. He
confessed, yet no charges were ever laid. This story has now been
removed from news site- www.montrealgazettemay17_2002.pdf Contact them
for information as to why this has now been removed from their website.

Danny Kane was involved in many murders and was authorized to receive
two million dollars from the RCMP at the time of his death.
Quote:
Serious questions are being asked as to why the RCMP looked the other
way when they knew that their informant, Danny Kane, was personally
involved in almost a dozen different murders.
see- story

Recently, CTV W5 looked into another suspicious case in Kenora Ontario.
A suspect was arrested and charged with murder. Years later the charge
was stayed when another suspect surfaced. The other suspect, a police
informant, the police investigator, his uncle! The police refuse to
investigate further or to charge the cop.
see- W5 story

This dangerous RCMP agent was permitted to move right in with his next
victim. There were no warnings. It took years of enduring judicial
obstruction for the mother of the murder victim to find out that her
son's killer was an RCMP agent

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quigley

Joined: 21 May 2006
Posts: 727

 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:09 am    Post subject:

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Quote:
Port Coquitlam appears to be a massive
sea/rail port, from what I can tell the biggest port in the Vancouver
area.
This would mean a preponderance of international shipping (particularly
Asian) This would be the same area/source for the stories of women
disappearing onto ships.
If anyone can find any reference to tunnels or mines or Hells Angels
etc. in the Surrey or Port Coquitlam area
that might be useful.

The boundaries of the Dominion Av and Burns Rd properties owned by the
Picktons are in fact north of the Lougheed Hwy and the massive rail
connections are to the south, but all in very close proximity to both
the farm and Piggy's Palace. There are certainly no major ports
adjacent to either of the Pickton properties, but it is interesting to
note that the Burns Rd property leads eastward to the Pitt River.
Doesn't take much stretch to visualize smaller logging or fishing
vessels being able to transport things from the Pitt River location
down river to the major ports around Surrey, New West and Richmond.

There is one major port on the Fraser River in Richmond where I was
involved in a private investigation/search (body ultimately recovered
from the Fraser). One of the things we talked about at the time was a
massive "chute" that goes about 100' up in the air and appears to have
something to do with the logging industry (massive wood chipping
operation??). The particular location we were in is called Mitchell
Island. It is a very industrial type area with a lot of transport
trucks, containers, auto parts places, reputed chop-shop locations,
etc. I'm pretty steely, and it was one of the blackest, scariest places
I've ever been with weird people in the shadows, watching what we were
doing and ducking out of sight. Long story ... another time.

Just mainly trying to point out where the water runs from and to in
relation to the Pickton boys.

BTW ... while you are looking at that same area west of the Pitt River
bridge, further west around the corner of Lougheed and Shaughnessy is a
hotel called "The Shaughnessy" (I think) ... I do know that it is
reputed to have heavy HA patronage.

Just to the east of the Pitt River bridge is a hotel that used to be
called "The Wild Duck Inn" and used to be referred to as "The
Gilnetter". Also known for lots of HA attendees.

Thunkerdrone, FWIW ... the Pitt River bridge is the dividing line
between POCO and Haney. There was previous mention of a HA clubhouse
across the road from the Pickton property in POCO. Don't know whether
it ever was determined if it was the Domion Av or Burns Rd property.
There is also a Haney chapter of the HA, so looks like there is a lot
of HA activity in that general area.

quig

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Desespere

Joined: 21 Apr 2006
Posts: 991

 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:32 am    Post subject:

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I can't remember the name of the bike club in Edmonton, it used to be
the Rebels. The fortress was on 83 street and 115 ave if I remember
correctly, and was still there when the other one took over from the
Rebels. It moved after that, 1990's I think. I don't know where they
gather now. Is HA in Edmonton?
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willow

Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Posts: 1793

 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:54 am    Post subject:

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Hi Des, Yes, they're in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ontario, Quebec, don't know
about Saskatchewan, but if they aren't there then that's probably the
only place they aren't. I am pretty sure they are in the maritime
provinces too.
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willow

Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Posts: 1793

 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:27 am    Post subject:

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Quote:
So now we may find out the real reason Clifford Olson was able to
sell information on the bodies location to the RCMP?

What really happened? Did Olson do it alone after all? Or was he paid
to take the fall and shut up?

Thunkerdrone you may be interested in this site as well

http://www.injusticebusters.com/06/RCMP2006.shtml

Also check out our Olson thread if you havn't already.
http://www.freeforum101.com/edmontonsk/viewtopic.php?t=981&highlight=...

There's some hair raising stuff here, and yes I think its related to
the death cult stuff you've been edumacating us on with your wonderful
links.
You may be able to help tie some of this together with your POV.
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quigley

Joined: 21 May 2006
Posts: 727

 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:46 am    Post subject:

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Re HA in Saskatchewan ...

A few years ago there were definitely "prospecting" clubs (I think aka
"puppet" clubs) for HA in Saskatchewan. They are clubs that go by other
names, but supposedly do the dirty work for the HA.

I read an article on it recently about the heirarchy and the various
affiliations, but can't recall all of it. Will try to find the info
again and post it.

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quigley

Joined: 21 May 2006
Posts: 727

 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:51 am    Post subject:

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Re Vancouver Ports, and a post recently about Stan Hennessy being
linked to the HA:

Quote:
The Vancouver Sun published the picture last week prompting questions
about the link between the union and the Hells Angels - the most talked
about organized crime outfit in B.C. but the one with the least number
of members in jail.

Local 31 in Delta led by Hennessy represents more than 6,000 workers in
B.C. and the Yukon, including about 230 civilian employees of the
Vancouver police, 80 civilian employees of the Abbotsford force, about
350 inside workers at the Greater Vancouver Regional District, and
several hundred truckers who haul containers at the Port of Vancouver.

Vancouver civilian police employees have access to highly sensitive
information, ranging from the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC)
to criminal records. They liaise with Crown attorneys, deal with the
public at front counters, assist victims, and perform secretarial work
in all sections of the department.

Let's not even talk about the Vancouver Port which is internationally
renowned for being a gateway for contraband.

from:
http://www.asianpacificpost.com/portal2/402881910674ebab010674f4ad0a1...

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adrian

Joined: 13 Apr 2006
Posts: 675
Location: ALBERTA
 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:18 am    Post subject: Thunker:::

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   YIKES

It has also taken years and years for the murders here, to be looked
at, and the surrounding areas. BTW Saskatchewan, Alberta, and B.C.
there are a hell of a lot of missing and/or murdered. The task force,
is being quiet, but they have some great profilers, and investigators,
of the homicidal sexual sadist.

There could actually be a brotherhood of sorts, and that could contain,
many types of people.The way the gals are killed are not disclosed,
other than then, the obvious burning to some, and one with full body
trauma. Unless someone has learned more info., I wonder if any are
secretly held, and used, tortured, till deemed disposable.Twisted sick.

Plus with bodies splintering out all over, there are a lot of different
jurisdictions.I hope the police from each place is keeping in touch
with each other.There could even be a cop who has knowledge, who knows?

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quigley

Joined: 21 May 2006
Posts: 727

 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:13 am    Post subject:

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Re HA in Saskatchewan ...

Um ... I guess hellsangelssaskatoon.ca with www. in front of it might
give us a bit of a clue here

and from a Criminal Intelligence Service Canada 2001 report at
http://www.cfdp.ca/crint01.htm

Quote:
Trafficking in cocaine and marijuana continues to be the primary
activity of the HELLS ANGELS Saskatoon chapter. The gang manages
numerous marijuana grow operations and is also involved in strip clubs
and escort agencies

from Injusticebusters "Gangs of Saskatoon"
http://www.injusticebusters.com/04/Gangs_of_Saskatoon.htm

Quote:
The Hells Angels are using street gangs to deal illegal drugs such as
"crystal meth," a highly addictive stimulant popping up everywhere on
the streets of Saskatoon, say police.

"There is a tonne of crystal meth in town here. It's appeared in huge
quantities over the past year," Saskatoon Police Services Sgt. Gavin
Morgan told the Saskatchewan News Network.

"We do have intelligence that there are connections in the drug trade
between the Hells Angels and the Native street gangs."

quig

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The Hells Angels seem to be the missing link between the CIA drug lords
and the various street gangs, be they the black , Italian, or native
gangs
not to mention the fact that the CIA has been known to plant their own
in key positions at many police departments:

CIA importing cocaine into U.S.: Dateline NBC

video
http://tinyurl.com/yxs4wf

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I watched that and drew the conclusion that the CIA denies it,
So no, they did not admit dealing drugs.

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A Los Angelas Police narcotics detective
said it. I believe him. btw, he is not the only one to come
forward) He was recruited by the CIA , but turned them down
to work for the LAPD instead.
found another video on this:
video:

Former narcotics investigator Mike Ruppert was forced out of the LAPD
in 1977 when he exposed the evidence of drug trafficking by the CIA.
THis is one of his first appearances caught on video in 1997 at the
Granada Forum in California. Topic is CIA Drug Running.
http://tinyurl.com/yjugzk
causewayclubhouse@hotmail.com wrote:
> continued:
>
> 7 September. This is why he was immediately regarded as a suspect.
> Hardly
> any searches were made. The child protection unit of the public
> prosecutor's department followed the most plausible hypothesis, that
> Carine had run away due to conflict in the family . For there had been
> conflict. Her parents would get divorced soon after. In December 1983,
> the Ghent investigating magistrate Pieters opened a criminal
> investigation against Emile Dellaert. He was arrested and spent two
> months in prison. In January 1986, he was released through lack of
> evidence. In 1989 he was considered free of all suspicion. The file was
>
> closed.
>
>
> XI recognises Clo, her best friend.
>
>
> At the end of 1996, some strange things went on in the financial
> section (3rd Criminal Research Section) of the Brussels BSR.
> Investigators from the Neufchâteau unit questioned witnesses until
> late into the night. Occasionally the officers saw their colleagues
> leave the room pale-faced.
>
>
> The main cause of the trouble was witness XI. The young woman claimed
> to have been the victim of a network that raped, tortured and killed
> children in the seventies and eighties. "Many girls, like myself, never
>
> knew anything different," she explained. "We grew up with it. We lived
> in a sort of concentration camp." XI rejected the term
> 'paedophiles'. "The men who raped us weren't particularly
> attracted by children. The only thing they were interested in was to go
>
> beyond all limits from a sexual point of view. And children were
> perfect for that. They kept quiet and did what was asked of them."
>
>
> One of the girls XI got to know in the network was Clo. XI mentioned
> her name during the first session of questioning, on 20 September 1996.
>
> Clo, she explained, was no older than herself and also came from Ghent.
>
> She was her best friend and comfort in this secret world. Just like XI,
>
> Clo led a double life. She went to school normally, and couldn't
> speak to anyone about the places she was taken to during the weekends.
> XI met Clo regularly during orgies in Ghent and sometimes in Brussels.
> XI couldn't say much more about Clo, except the name of her school.
>
>
> During the fourth session of questioning, on 25 October, XI recounted
> that the young girl had died thirteen years ago. XI gave a detailed
> description of a scene she would have preferred to forget, but that
> will mark her for the rest of her days. She situated the events between
>
> June and December 1983. Clo was very heavily pregnant, she stated. XI
> met her from time to time at a "party", but always at a certain
> distance. None of the girls could have any contact with her.
>
>
> On 25 October, in statement no. 116.018, XI said: "One day my procurer
> came for me and blindfolded me to take me to a house near Ghent. There
> were three other people in the house (XI gave the names of her
> procurer, T.; a lawyer from Brussels and a Flemish burgomaster). T.
> left me in a room where Clo was lying on a bed in the middle of labour.
>
> I had to help her to give birth. She was bleeding a lot and suffering
> terribly. I panicked because I was alone with no-one to help me. The
> baby was only born a few hours later. It was a boy. I cut the umbilical
>
> cord and placed the baby on Clo's belly. At that moment, T. returned
> to the room and took the baby, while I stayed with Clo. She was losing
> a lot of blood."
>
>
> XI can only guess what happened then to Clo, because she had to leave
> the house. Some men who had been in the back of the house all evening
> took her to a Chinese restaurant in Bruges. XI thinks that her friend
> died in her arms but she cannot be sure that she didn't live a little
> longer and that the horrific scene did not continue.
>
>
> Thanks to research carried out at "Clo's" school, the BSR
> investigators managed to guess who she was. After that, BSR officers
> Patrick De Baets and Philippe Hupez showed XI a series of class photos
> from the year 1981-82. XI not only pointed to the photos of Carine
> Dellaert, but also to another photo. According to XI, it was V. (she
> gave her first name). She added: "They killed her, too. Clo told me
> that she was called V."
>
>
> During questioning on 25 October, statement no. 116.018, XI said: "This
>
> happened in a house in Ghent. Clo was there, too [...] They tortured
> her with knives and scissors. Someone broke a bottle and rubbed the
> fragments into her vagina. Then they cut her in various places with
> razor-blades."
>
>
> After this session of questioning, they no longer knew where they were
> at the 3rd Criminal Research Section. From a series of twenty photos,
> XI had managed to pick out two girls who had died shortly afterwards.
> After further research, the investigators not only came across the old
> file on the murder of Carine Dellaert, but also information concerning
> the second young girl. She was, in fact, called V., and had died in the
>
> middle of 1983 in Ghent. As regards the list of people present
> according to XI, some of the details were remarkable. As well as Michel
>
> Nihoul and a woman who was arrested in the Dutroux case, XI named her
> procurer T., the lawyer and the burgomaster mentioned above, and a
> businessman from western Flanders and his son. XI could not establish
> any links between all these people, except the fact that she had met
> them on various occasions at orgies. The investigators carried out
> research which showed that all the people present had professional
> links of one sort or another, links that were not apparent at first
> sight. The name of the man she indicated as Clo's "procurer" was also
> remarkable. He had already appeared as a suspect in the old file at the
>
> Ghent Public prosecutor's department. The man was known to the police
> for a series of sexual crimes.
>
>
> The Timperman report
>
>
> When politicians today make comments and observations about the split
> between "believers" and "non-believers", they are reviving a debate
> that was born at the end of October 1996 within the 3rd Criminal
> Research Section. XI's story triggered reactions that were far from
> being rational. The public prosecutor Michel Bourlet invited the
> investigators not to stop at the matter of whether they believed the
> story or not, but to carry out their work in an objective manner.
> According XI's statement, it seemed that Carine Dellaert had lived
> one year after her disappearance, pregnant and hidden away. This must
> be provable in one way or another. One detail is disturbing. Carine
> Dellaert disappeared the day before the end of the school holidays in
> 1982. To "place" a girl in a network, this seems to be an ideal time.
>
>
> If the search for the murderers of Carine Dellaert didn't lead to
> very much at the time, it certainly wasn't because of Dr. Timperman.
> In his 40-page autopsy report, he listed all the details of his
> findings regarding the remains of the body. He was unable, due to the
> state of the body, to estimate the date of death. One of the details he
>
> noted initially caused some doubts about the identity of the victim.
> The girl in the tank was much heavier than Carine Dellaert. She was
> wearing a 90 cm. cup bra - a few sizes bigger than Carine. Dr.
> Timperman found an explanation for this anomaly. The following extract
> is taken from his report of 24 September 1985:
>
>
> "At the level of the pelvis there is a small piece of soft, woody
> tissue. It is a piece of "crayon laminaire", an old medical instrument
> used to dilate the neck of the womb in order to facilitate the delivery
>
> of a baby. This instrument is now rarely used because it causes great
> pain for the mother."
> "Presence in the bra of a small square of gauze, which indicates a
> swelling of the breasts and a loss of liquid. This is frequent in women
>
> who are pregnant for the first time."
> Everything pointed to the fact that the young girl lived another eight
> or nine months after her disappearance. Timperman also described the
> objects found in the tank. There were a total of nineteen objects,
> mainly coins and pieces of jewellery. But there were also:
>
>
> "Two Gillette razor-blades."
> When the BSR officers received the Timperman report at the end of 1996,
>
> they immediately analysed what the press had written on the subject of
> the discovery of the body of Carine Dellaert in 1985. Not a word about
> her pregnancy. Not even in the shortest paragraph after Carine's
> disappearance in 1982. No-one had mentioned a pregnancy.
>
>
> XI had spoken of razor-blades in her testimony about V., but not on the
>
> subject of Carine Dellaert. It is worth pointing out that long before
> the Timperman report landed at the 3rd Criminal Research Section, XI
> had described other sadistic scenes in which razor-blades were
> mentioned as the customary modus operandi. "For some of them, it was
> clearly their favourite toy."
>
>
> The death of V.
>
>
> XI also described a series of addresses where she and Clo had been
> raped at the beginning of the eighties. On 29 September 1996, during
> the second of her seventeen hearings, she described a bar in
> Drongensesteenweg, very near the home of the Dellaert family. The bar
> no longer exists. The investigators found a list of the owners. Later,
> XI named a house in Waarschot as the place where Clo died. Nothing
> indicates that fifteen years later a firm occupies this address.
> Whether it is a coincidence or not, among the partners is the name of
> one of the owners of the bar in Drongensesteenweg.
>
>
> At the end of 1996, the Dellaert file was reopened by the public
> prosecutor's department of Ghent. Meanwhile the death certificate of
> V., the second girl, had been found. It states that the girl died as
> the result of a tumour. The C3 form was filled in by two neurologists
> accused by XI of being part of the network. While watching T., XI's
> procurer, the investigators noticed that he is in contact with the
> father of V.
>
>
> On 28 October 1996, the investigators applied for authorisation to
> exhume the body of V. This authorisation would never be given. At the
> beginning of the summer holidays, the public prosecutor's department
> of Ghent received some news from Brussels. Investigating magistrate Van
>
> Espen and Gendarmerie Commander Duterme had expressed serious doubts
> about the manner in which XI had been questioned. The Ghent public
> prosecutor Soenens was informed of the matter, and launched an appeal
> for calm. He wanted to see the credibility of XI confirmed, for example
>
> through the further development of the Van Hees case. The wait began.
> The Ghent public prosecutor's department transferred the case to the
> Ghent BSR, but two camps quickly formed there and the rumours about XI
> began to fly. The announcement of the article in De Morgen caused a
> stir within the Ghent public prosecutor's department. Public
> Prosecutor Soenens has assured us that "the investigation duties have
> been drawn up" and that for the end of January a "co-ordination meeting
>
> is planned" for all the public prosecutor's departments where
> inquiries have been opened on the basis of the testimony of XI.
>
>
> THE CREDIBILITY OF JUSTICE
> Marc Reisinger
>
>
> The day when Sabine and Laetitia were liberated will undoubtedly remain
>
> a turning point in the history of Belgium. Before then, children
> disappeared, their bodies were found, and occasionally a murderous
> sadist was arrested. This took up a few lines in the "news in brief"
> columns. It was as if we were seeing a few fixed frames of a horror
> film so far from our daily life that we no longer paid them much
> attention. Suddenly, on 15 August 1996, we witnessed the liberation in
> real time of two young girls abducted and locked up by Marc Dutroux.
> The emotion I felt that day as I watched the TV was shared by millions
> of people in Belgium and all over the world. It was at the origin of
> the "marche blanche", which itself led for the first time to the live
> TV broadcast of the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the
> disappearance of children. I am not surprised today to discover in the
> testimony of Regina - known as XI - the importance that the
> liberation of Sabine and Laetitia had for her: "The policemen who
> escorted Sabine and Laetitia into a car were the white knights I had
> dreamed of throughout those years" (De Morgen, 10 January 1998). It was
>
> at that moment that she decided to testify in Neufchâteau.
>
>
> But the arrest of Dutroux and Nihoul also marked the appearance of a
> split between the "sensitive" and the "insensitive". Most people felt
> total empathy for the children who were victims of cruelty. However, a
> certain number of strong spirits immediately began to criticise
> Connerotte and Bourlet, the Neufchâteau "cowboys". The removal of
> magistrate Connerotte was applauded by the conservative establishment,
> but also by a certain number of left-wing intellectuals. For reasons
> that we would have to analyse, the latter distrusted the emotion and
> the excessive media attention surrounding the case. As a
> psychotherapist, I fear that these people feel difficulty entering into
>
> contact with their own suffering, and that they thus take sides
> unconsciously with the aggressors. It is also likely that hidden
> influence was set into motion by figures who, rightly or wrongly, felt
> compromised by the disclosures. How many people who simply took part in
>
> Nihoul's orgies tremble in fear that their names will be cited?
> Regina stated in her testimony that some of the "parties" of the
> network were organised with the aim of blackmailing.
>
>
> A further split gradually appeared in the media. Most of the press
> began to describe Dutroux as a lone wolf, a psychopath, demented and
> brilliant. Nihoul was painted as a businessman and a swindler who had
> recently met Dutroux and had had the unfortunate idea to have his car
> repaired by him. This thesis was the object of a press campaign that
> culminated in the TV programme "Au Nom de la Loi" (RTBF, 17 September
> 1997). Immediately afterwards, a "campaign of silence" developed around
>
> Nihoul: his name hardly appeared in the francophone press - with the
> exception of Télé Moustique - in the following six months.
>
>
> It is to react to all this that we have created the "Pour la vérité"
> association, made up of people of various backgrounds anxious to
> preserve their critical spirit in the face of a premature attempt to
> dismiss claims that Dutroux and Nihoul had known each other for a long
> time and that Nihoul benefits from protection. We formulated twelve
> questions with regard to the investigations in progress and we
> purchased an entire page in Le Soir to publish them under the title
> "Nous ne laisserons pas passer". Our aim was to address a message to
> the public and to try to wake up the media. We have had little success
> on the second point.
>
>
> The campaign of silence was finally broken only by the publication of
> the testimony of Regina. For more than six months, she gave evidence in
>
> Neufchâteau about the network of which Dutroux and Nihoul were
> members. Her testimony describes very clearly the murder of young girls
>
> and children. According to the BSR (Brigade Speciale de Recherche) team
>
> which heard it, this testimony should have led to fresh inquiries and,
> in particular, to further searches. Instead, the team was removed from
> the investigation in July 1997. Since then, a "re-examination" of the
> file has been taking place. This re-examination, accompanied by the
> suspension of the investigation, constitutes a new development in
> judicial procedure. It is as if a doctor stopped treating a patient in
> a critical condition in order to calmly re-read the medical records.
> When we realise that this re-examination has already lasted longer than
>
> the investigation and that its end is postponed every time the date of
> the conclusion of the parliamentary committee of inquiry is put back,
> we might fear that the re-examination actually serves to hush up the
> investigation.
>
>
> The unconfessed desire to halt the investigation seems evident to a
> careful observer. This desire is disguised behind the "scandal" of the
> leaks. The public prosecutor's department and certain sectors of the
> media are disturbed by the leaks without being disturbed by their
> contents, while organising further leaks that call into question the
> testimony of XI (like the publication of a summary of the
> re-examination and of extracts of the psychiatric report on XI). The
> discussion of the contents of the testimony of XI has also been avoided
>
> by focussing the media debate on her credibility: is she traumatised,
> mad, or suffering from mythomania?
>
>
> It seems to me to be more interesting to question the credibility of
> justice than that of XI. Rather than turning to psychiatrists to find
> out whether what Regina says is true, it would be better to attend to
> the precise facts described and continue the investigations. We know,
> for example, that Regina gave details about the murders of Christine
> Van Hees and Carine Dellaert that match the file and sometimes surpass
> it in terms of accuracy (like the nail hammered into Christine's
> hand). She also named as a victim a young girl from Ghent, Véronique
> D., who officially died of cancer. This is a perfect opportunity to
> find out whether XI is reliable: the medical records should be
> analysed, the two doctors who signed the death certificate should be
> questioned and the body exhumed. These evident duties of the
> investigation have been requested by the investigators since January
> 1997, but up to now they have been rejected by the public
> prosecutor's department in Ghent.
>
>
> Should we not begin to give serious consideration to a different
> hypothesis from XI's lack of credibility to explain the delay in
> inquiries? Is it not simply the fact that her testimony calls into
> question important figures such as industrialists, politicians, and
> even a former prime minister?
>
>
> A promising indication of the Satanic conspiracy could be found in
> Belgium last year, when links between a series of grisly pædophile
> killings and an active Satanist society shocked the nation. Throughout
> the summer, the gradual revelations of the murders of at least four
> children led to the arrest of Marc Dutroux, an unemployed electrician
> and convicted paedophile, his wife Michele Martin and other
> accomplices. They are suspected of other pædophile killings around the
>
> city of Charleroi but, so far, no other bodies have been found. Two
> attempts - in November 1996 and January 1997 - to drain and search
> abandoned mine shafts in the suburb of Jumet proved equally fruitless,
> despite separate suggestions by Dutroux and his wife that police would
> do well to look there.
>
>
> The presence of a Satanic conspiracy became a distinct possibility
> when, in mid-December, while investigating the Dutroux's pædophile
> network, Belgian police stumbled upon links to a college of Black Magic
>
> called the Institut Abrasax, in a village near Charleroi. The building
> served as the offices of a number of pagan organisations, including the
>
> Belgian Church of Satan and the Luciferian Initiation Order. According
> to Peter Conradi, reporting for the Times, "five witnesses described
> black masses [there] at which children were killed in front of
> audiences said to have included prominent members of Belgian society."
>
>
> In early January 1997, a Flemish newspaper disclosed that three
> policemen (and possibly a fourth) of the Charleroi municipal force had
> admitted to being members of Abrasax, claiming it was all quite
> harmless. Mindful of the allegations that some babies were sold to the
> group by their parents while others were abducted, more than 100
> investigators searched the building for eight hours. As well as the
> expected ritual paraphernalia, police found a bottle of frozen blood in
>
> a refrigerator. High priestess Dominique Kindermans - who described
> the search as terrifying - managed to prove she bought the blood from
> a butcher.
>
>
> To make matters worse, police also uncovered evidence of a separate
> locus of orgies in a dilapidated chateau. Organised by Michel Nihoul, a
>
> known accomplice of Dutroux, a group of judges, senior politicians,
> lawyers and policemen have been implicated in the orgies there. This
> too, panned out; just sleaze as usual. To the dispair of the
> witch-hunters, so far the associations have proved circumstantial, the
> allegations have remained unproven and there have been no further
> arrests.
>
>
>  Article Info
> 'The Devil Worshipers' by Bob Rickard
>
>
> May 1997
>
>
> FT 98A promising indication of the Satanic conspiracy could be found in
>
> Belgium last year, when links between a series of grisly pædophile
> killings and an active Satanist society shocked the nation. Throughout
> the summer, the gradual revelations of the murders of at least four
> children led to the arrest of Marc Dutroux, an unemployed electrician
> and convicted paedophile, his wife Michele Martin and other
> accomplices. They are suspected of other pædophile killings around the
>
> city of Charleroi but, so far, no other bodies have been found. Two
> attempts - in November 1996 and January 1997 - to drain and search
> abandoned mine shafts in the suburb of Jumet proved equally fruitless,
> despite separate suggestions by Dutroux and his wife that police would
> do well to look there.
>
>
> The presence of a Satanic conspiracy became a distinct possibility
> when, in mid-December, while investigating the Dutroux's pædophile
> network, Belgian police stumbled upon links to a college of Black Magic
>
> called the Institut Abrasax, in a village near Charleroi. The building
> served as the offices of a number of pagan organisations, including the
>
> Belgian Church of Satan and the Luciferian Initiation Order. According
> to Peter Conradi, reporting for the Times, "five witnesses described
> black masses [there] at which children were killed in front of
> audiences said to have included prominent members of Belgian society."
>
>
> In early January 1997, a Flemish newspaper disclosed that three
> policemen (and possibly a fourth) of the Charleroi municipal force had
> admitted to being members of Abrasax, claiming it was all quite
> harmless. Mindful of the allegations that some babies were sold to the
> group by their parents while others were abducted, more than 100
> investigators searched the building for eight hours. As well as the
> expected ritual paraphernalia, police found a bottle of frozen blood in
>
> a refrigerator. High priestess Dominique Kindermans - who described
> the search as terrifying - managed to prove she bought the blood from
> a butcher.
>
>
> To make matters worse, police also uncovered evidence of a separate
> locus of orgies in a dilapidated chateau. Organised by Michel Nihoul, a
>
> known accomplice of Dutroux, a group of judges, senior politicians,
> lawyers and policemen have been implicated in the orgies there. This
> too, panned out; just sleaze as usual. To the dispair of the
> witch-hunters, so far the associations have proved circumstantial, the
> allegations have remained unproven and there have been no further
> arrests.
>
>
>  Article Info
> 'The Devil Worshipers' by Bob Rickard
>
>
> De Morgen, 7 January 1997
> DUTROUX AND NIHOUL SUSPECTED OF THE MURDER OF CHRISTINE VAN HEES IN
> 1984
> By Annemie Bulté and Douglas De Coninck
>
>
> On 13 February 1984, the horribly mutilated body of 16-year-old
> Christine Van Hees was found in an old Champignonnière (mushroom bed)
> in Auderghem. Thirteen years of investigations led to nothing. Three
> months before the beginning of the Dutroux case, the Brussels public
> prosecutor's department classified the case as closed. At the end of
> 1996, witness XI testified to the Neufchâteau public prosecutor's
> department, accusing Marc Dutroux, Michel Nihoul and others of having
> committed the murder. Thanks to extremely precise information, XI
> proved that she was present at the time of the murder. Despite this,
> the investigation is now completely blocked.
>
>
> Since 27 January 1997, the Brussels public prosecutor's department
> has been leading an investigation into the alleged involvement of Marc
> Dutroux and Michel Nihoul in the murder of the young Christine Van
> Hees. The work of the Neufchâteau unit (3rd Section of Criminal
> Research, Brussels BSR) led to the reopening of the 13-year-old
> investigation. The first reason was the statements of witness XI. The
> 28-year-old women contacted the magistrate Jean-Marc Connerotte in
> Neufchâteau on 4 September 1996. XI stated that she was present at the
>
> time of the murder. She was able to prove this by a precise description
>
> of the places, details of the injuries inflicted on Christine Van Hees,
>
> and information regarding the private life of the victims and the
> accused. In some respects XI's statement proved to be more complete
> than the autopsy report made by the forensic surgeons.
>
>
> XI's version was confirmed after an analysis of the old investigation
> file. This investigation, led from 1985 onwards by the Brussels
> magistrate Van Espen, already contained evidence pointing to Dutroux
> and Nihoul. In 1984 a friend of Christine Van Hees stated to the
> Brussels CID that the young girl, during the weekend preceding her
> death, had a rendez-vous with "a certain Marc in the region of Mons".
> At the end of 1996, it appeared that Dutroux frequented the same
> ice-skating rink as Christine Van Hees in 1983 and 1984. Moreover, it
> turned out that not long before her death the young girl went to a
> party held by the free radio station in Etterbeek, Radio Activité, run
>
> at the time by Michel Nihoul.
>
>
> In the course of the new investigation, around 300 witnesses were
> questioned. These confirmed the statements of XI on a number of crucial
>
> points. And yet the investigation has now come to a halt. On 25 August
> 1997, the team of investigators following up XI's statements was
> removed. This happened on the insistence of magistrate Van Espen, who
> had doubts about the objectivity of the investigators. On the request
> of Van Espen, his colleague Langlois (Neufchâteau) and police
> commander Duterme, a "re-examination" of all the inquiries based on the
>
> testimony of XI was begun. Initially this re-examination was to last a
> few weeks, but it has dragged on for over six months. Since September,
> XI has had to deal with a new group of investigators. In a letter
> addressed to the Verwilghen Committee, she complains - like her
> therapist - of the manner in which she is treated. XI says that she
> feels they want to "break" her emotionally.
>
>
> It is not only the Van Hees investigation that has nearly come to a
> halt. The same is true of five other inquiries which were opened (or
> reopened) on the basis of the statements of XI to the public
> prosecutor's departments of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and
> Neufchâteau. XI describes many murders of children which she says were
>
> carried out in the context of a very extensive network of child
> prostitution. Despite a triple "re-examination" of XI's statements,
> it cannot be demonstrated that this information can have any source
> other than her own memory.
>
>
> The information published by De Morgen with regard to these inquiries
> are the result of five months of research.
>
>
> Dutroux and Nihoul suspected of the murder of Christine Van Hees in
> 1984
>
>
> "It's the nail in my coffin," stated the Brussels magistrate
> Jean-Claude Van Espen when asked about the Champignonnière file. The
> expression was not a particularly happy one. At the end of 1996, it was
>
> because of a nail that the officers of the Brussels BSR probably found
> the key to the mystery that surrounds the horrific murder of Christine
> Van Hees in 1984. Very soon it also turned out that even without the
> Dutroux affair and the testimony of XI Van Espen would have been able
> to find the trail of Marc Dutroux and Michel Nihoul as early as 1985.
>
>
> That evening, the fireman Norbert Vanden Berghen experienced the most
> dramatic moments in his professional life. "The phone had not stopped
> ringing all day. We had had a lot of fires and accidents, even three at
>
> a time." The date was Monday 13 February 1984. At 8.47 p.m. another
> emergency call came. A cloud of smoke had been seen in a ruined family
> mansion on the land of the old Auderghem Champignonnière, near the
> campus of the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Before the fireman
> reached the scene, a second fire was reported nearby. Smoke was coming
> from the basement window of the Champignonnière. While one team
> searched the abandoned house, the other team plunged into the cellar
> with torches. Lieutenant Vanden Berghen was part of the second team.
> "We saw a fire smouldering under a pile of wooden boxes. As the fire
> had almost gone out, we looked inside."
>
>
> Cause of death unknown.
>
>
> What then appeared will remain impressed on the fireman's mind for a
> long time. He saw a charred human trunk. Part of the head had been
> devoured by the flames. Feet and hands, there wasn't much left. "It
> was a young girl. She was lying on her stomach. She was naked. Her legs
>
> and arms were tied together with a length of wire, which was also
> twisted around her neck. Her legs were bent backwards. Horrible."
>
>
> In the smouldering pile, the experts from the Brussels police found
> personal items belonging to the victim: jewels, the charred remains of
> a T-shirt, a bra. The detectives were faced with a puzzle. Their first
> impression was that the victim had accompanied her murderers
> voluntarily. Before the group had gone down into the basement, they had
>
> evidently been in the house, where objects were found that seemed to be
>
> related to the crime.
>
>
> The next day, when Pierre and Antoinette Van Hees heard the news of the
>
> discovery of the body of a young girl a few blocks from where they
> lived, they were overcome by fear. Their 16-year-old daughter Christine
>
> had not come home the day before. Another day and a half passed before
> the Brussels CID could give the managers of the newsagent's in Avenue
> du Diamant a definite answer: the body was that of Christine. Her
> parents had to go and identity bits of exercise books and jewellery.
> They were not shown the body. There were reasons for that. In their
> autopsy report, the forensic surgeons Rillaert and Voordecker did not
> hazard an opinion on the cause of death. Before being burnt, the young
> girl had been so badly abused that it was impossible to tell which act
> of torture had been fatal. In his first report, Dr. Voordecker
> mentioned traces of strangling. Later the doctors included another
> observation in their report: the victim was not undergoing menstruation
>
> - a detail which would only assume full importance thirteen years
> later. The girl's parents had another shock to endure. Their daughter
> had not been to school that morning. Apparently she had missed school
> quite often.
>
>
> It was the period of new wave music. Christine Van Hees was a dreamer.
> She loved U2, and in the months before her death she had argued with
> her parents more than once about her clothes and her social life.
> Christine also loved sport. Once a week she would go skating or
> swimming. She went to school in Anderlecht, where she had many friends.
>
> That afternoon, towards 5.20 p.m., she was last seen alive by two of
> her friends in Rue Wayez in Anderlecht. She had a bit of a chat with
> her friend Chantal and showed her the boots she had bought (or got from
>
> someone) that morning. During this conversation, she noticed Didier,
> her old scout chief. Chantal and Didier saw Christine walk towards the
> Saint-Guidon underground station. From there it was half an hour's
> journey to the Pétillon station, near her home. It must have been very
>
> quick. At 6.50 p.m. some people in Rue de la Stratégie heard a young
> girl screaming. What they heard seemed to be: "No, not that! Stop!
> Mum!".
>
>
> The punk trail
>
>
> Those who were students at the Free University of Brussels in the
> mid-eighties knew the urban legend. Some screwy punks had organised a
> Satanic mass. The case seemed simple. In 1984 the deserted
> Champignionnière was a pile of ruins. Some punks used to go there
> regularly to smoke joints, before returning to the Kultuurcafé. To the
>
> extent that he had time for this case, that was the trail followed by
> the Brussels investigating magistrate Eloy. Eloy was also in charge of
> the investigation into the left-wing C.C.C. terrorist group. A lot for
> just one man. Eloy had a heart attack, and later a nervous breakdown.
> On 1 October 1985, the case was placed in the hands of another
> magistrate, the up-and-coming Jean-Claude Van Espen.
>
>
> Van Espen inherited a file that already contained a principal suspect:
> Serge C., one of the punks who had been seen frequently at the
> Champignionnière. C., nicknamed 'l'Iroquois", was a striking
> character. A bright red Mohican, military boots, drugged up to his
> eyeballs. In 1983, C. had served two months in prison for violent
> theft. Later he was prosecuted for desertion. On 13 September 1984 he
> was arrested and charged with the murder of Christine Van Hees. During
> a search one of her exercise books was found at his house. C. denied,
> confessed, denied, confessed... His lawyer attributed the fickleness of
>
> his young client to the fact that the CID rewarded his confessions with
>
> drugs. Without drugs, C. said he knew nothing. There was only one
> constant in his statements: he had no idea how the exercise book had
> ended up in his room. He suspected someone had put it there "to get
> him". C. was heard a total of sixteen times and would remain in custody
>
> for three years, two months and four days. In the psychiatric reports
> we read that Serge C. was "heavily mentally deranged" and that "he has
> no control over his actions". When C. was released on 17 November 1987
> without any further charges, Didier de Quévy became his lawyer. De
> Quévy took the case to the European Court of the Human Rights, where
> Belgium was condemned in 1991 for keeping C. in custody for an
> unreasonable length of time. During this period de Quévy was also
> defending other "drop-outs". He was the defence lawyer of a certain
> Marc Dutroux from Marcinelle. At the beginning of 1992, the Brussels
> CID resumed the investigation into the murder of Christine Van Hees
> from the beginning. For the first time, Christine's mother Antoinette
> Van Hees was questioned, and a local investigation took place. This led
>
> to a new trail. For four years police searched for the owner of a black
>
> car with a golden eagle on the bonnet. Some local residents had seen
> such a car patrolling the area. This trail also led nowhere. In June
> 1996, Christine's parents learned from the Brussels public
> prosecutor's department that the case had been closed. "In their
> letter, they wrote your daughter Claudine," recalls Pierre Van Hees.
> "To give you an idea of the intensive manner in which they dealt with
> the case."
>
>
> Witness XI comes forward in Neufchâteau
>
>
> Wednesday 4 September 1996: investigating magistrate Jean-Marc
> Connerotte of Neufchâteau was talking to Warrant Officer De Baets of
> the 3rd Criminal Research Section of the Brussels BSR. De Baets was
> furious. He was leading the investigation into the financial situation
> of Marc Dutroux. The telephone rang. A certain "Tania from Ghent" tried
>
> to explain something to Connerotte, but her French was as
> incomprehensible to him as his Flemish was to her. He handed the phone
> to De Baets. Through Tania, De Baets was put in contact with a young
> woman who wanted "to say some things about Michel Nihoul". It quickly
> appeared that the young woman had a lot to say. Since she asked to
> remain anonymous, she was called XI in the statement.
>
>
> "We are faced with ruin," said Marc Verwilghen when he heard about the
> testimony of XI at the end of 1996. During a TV debate, a journalist
> from Le Soir predicted that Belgium would not exist for much longer.
> The Dutroux case, he said, was just a detail. Who is XI? A small,
> 27-year-old woman, surprisingly self-confident, with an incredible
> history. As a baby she was entrusted to her grandmother, who lived in
> Knokke. There she was raised as a child prostitute. Until the age of
> ten, she was handed over like goods for sale in hotel rooms in Knokke.
> XI explained that as an adolescent, while watching TV she would
> occasionally see those who had raped her. Ministers, burgomasters,
> barons, or the managing directors of banks and important companies.
> That these men raped her was OK, said XI, that was bearable. The
> murders, that was the real problem. The pleasure of these clients was
> accentuated by the anguish of the child. Their greatest pleasure
> matched the greatest anguish, that of death. According to XI, for the
> organisation and the protection of their debauchery, these well-known
> figures turned to small-time criminals like her own procurer Tony, or
> characters like Marc Dutroux, Michel Nihoul and Bernard Weinstein. What
>
> should they do with a testimony like this at a time when the whole
> country was baying? Investigate, ordered Connerotte.
>
>
> One thing surprised Warrant Officer De Baets from XI's first hearing
> on 20 September 1996. She did not hesitate. With disconcerting ease,
> she was able to name old classmates who could confirm her story (which
> they would do), she gave the secret addresses of well-known figures and
>
> described the inside of their houses (correctly). She spoke of "Marc",
> the poor oaf who, at the beginning of the eighties, passed over her
> body with others including "Miche". "Dutroux had two alsatians," she
> said. "They were called Brutus and Sultan." Later, during police
> questioning, Dutroux was asked about his dogs. He got frightened and
> refused to answer. Michelle Martin was suspicious. One of the two dogs
> was still alive - it guarded the house in Marcinelle when Julie and
> Mélissa were imprisoned there. "It was called Sultan," said Martin. A
> lot of information about Dutroux was disclosed by the press in those
> days. The dog's name was never mentioned. How could XI have known it?
>
>
> The secret diary
>
>
> XI would be heard a total of seventeen times. Each of these hearings
> was filmed from the first minute to the last. This was done on the
> advice of experts. XI suffers from what is known in psychology as
> dissociation. In order to remember a traumatic event, she has to look
> in a corner of her memory that she has locked up. Speaking about it
> makes the victim relive the traumatic event. But XI knows how to
> protect herself. When it became too difficult for her, she fell silent
> --for hours, if necessary. She never cried. "They never taught me to
> express my grief," she apologised.
>
>
> On the evening of the 13 November, during her fifth hearing, XI
> mentioned Christine's name. She told how the young girl, after being
> tortured at length, was burned in the basement of a ruined building, in
>
> the Brussels area. This happened in the wake of an orgy that had lasted
>
> a whole weekend, during which - she would add later - her own
> 5-month-old baby was killed. As a punishment. Among those present, XI
> named Michel Nihoul, Marc Dutroux, Michelle Martin, Annie Bouty, Tony,
> Bernard Weinstein, a lawyer from Brussels, a couple from Ghent, and a
> "stranger".
>
>
>
> >From the hearing of 13 November, statement number 116/990: "They killed
>
>
> Christine [...] Dutroux and Nihoul tied her up in a special way. I had
> to plunge a knife into her vagina [...] They told me I had to make her
> shut up. Christine was tied up first of all on a table [...]. They
> guided my hand, I was forced to strangle her, otherwise the same thing
> would happen to me. Christine was raped several times. Then they untied
>
> her, in order to tie her up again. Her feet and hands were tied
> together on her back. Then they burned her." At the end of the
> questioning, XI described the house where this took place. Later, she
> gave further explanations about what had led to the punitive execution:
>
> "In the network, there were some experienced girls, like me, whose
> parents had left them at a very early age. There were also girls who
> were approached by adults and gradually introduced into the network. We
>
> had to take these girls under our wing. If they committed a mistake, it
>
> was we who were punished. That's the way it worked. With Christine it
> didn't work at all. She was lost. Three or four months before her
> death, she had met Nihoul. He made all sorts of promises. It was only
> at the end that she realised the truth. She wanted to leave, she told
> me. She told me that she had a secret diary hidden away somewhere. I
> told her to speak to her parents and ask them to protect her. I then
> made the stupid mistake of speaking about it with another girl. She had
>
> just received a beating because of Christine and she went to tell
> Nihoul about the secret diary. They planned the execution straight
> away. She had to die, as an example to the rest of us."
>
>
> >From the eighth hearing, 18 November 1996, statement number 116/991:
>
>
> "We were both pushed naked into a car. After a journey of twenty
> minutes we came to a place with lots of weeds and rubble. There was a
> funny smell, the ground was cold and damp [...] We arrived in a house,
> upstairs. Then we went down into a big cellar. There Christine was
> untied and tied up again like a rabbit. She was raped again and cut
> with a knife. [...] There were some candles. [...] One of the people
> present stabbed her on various parts of her body with a piece of metal
> heated over a candle. Then, someone mopped the blood from her vagina
> with a tampax, [...] Finally the lawyer pierced her hand with a piece
> of metal. Then they poured petrol on her and set her alight."
>
> At the end of the hearing, XI drew a plan of the house where she said
> the torture had taken place. What she drew was a rather classic plan of
>
> a family mansion in Brussels, a pile of rubble that must have been a
> garden, and the entrance to a cellar. Some of the details are striking.
>
> Three little loops in the kitchen represent meat-hooks. The little
> squares are two wooden tables that were left by the former owners. In
> what must be the hall, XI drew a big line that crosses it diagonally.
> This was a heavy metal pipe that she tripped over when she arrived, she
>
> explained.
>
>
> "She has been there"
>
>
> For those who want to form an opinion of XI's credibility, it is
> useful to know that the investigators of the 3rd Criminal Research
> Section of the BSR had no knowledge at the beginning of November of the
>
> investigation carried out in the past by the CID. After hearing XI
> speak about Christine for the first time, some of the BSR men searched
> in the archives. They found a few old press cuttings on the subject of
> the murder of Christine Van Hees. This is not where XI could have found
>
> her story. The newspapers give very different accounts of the situation
>
> in which the body was found.
>
>
> On 4 December, the investigators of the Brussels public prosecutor's
> department went to look for the 84/85 file of the magistrate Van Espen.
>
> What they discovered made them sit up. They found a detailed
> description of the objects found at the scene of the crime. There was
> mention, among other things, of some candle ends and a blood-soaked
> tampax. These are just a few lines of a file which, piled up, measured
> six feet. On certain points XI's version seemed more precise than the
> old file. In the file it is stated several times that Christine Van
> Hees was tied up with barbed wire. Barbed wire was also mentioned in
> most of the newspaper articles. "Wrong," said XI, "it was electric wire
>
> with the covering melted. The investigators rushed to the clerk's
> office of the Brussels department and found the wire. It was an
> electric wire with the covering melted.
>
>
> In the autopsy report there was no mention of a metal object hammered
> into Christine's wrists. After leafing through the file for days on
> end, the attention of the BSR men was drawn by report no. 30.14.321/84,
>
> drawn up by the Auderghem police on the evening of 13 February 1984. It
>
> states: "A nail is hammered into her left wrist." A short while later,
> they found the nail in the clerk's office. It was an enormous nail.
> During further checks carried out by the BSR men at the beginning of
> 1997, it emerged that the nail was the object of an argument at the
> time between the forensic surgeons and the first men to arrive on the
> scene. The Auderghem policeman De Kock said he attracted the doctors'
> attention to the nail, but they allegedly replied that they knew how to
>
> carry out an autopsy. The fireman Norbert Vanden Berghen and his
> colleague Yvan Leurquin were heard, thirteen years after the events.
> They too spoke of a nail and said they couldn't understand how the
> forensic surgeons could have forgotten it.
>
>
> On 21 January 1997, 59-year-old José Ginderachter was heard. He is the
>
> son of the man who once farmed the Champignionnière, and had lived in
> the family mansion. When presented with XI's statement, all he could
> say was: "This person must have been there."
>
>
> Whether it was a matter of the three meat-hooks in the kitchen, the
> pattern of the floor-tiles, the two wooden kitchen tables, a rainwater
> barrel in the courtyard or the entrance to the Champignionnière,
> Ginderachter could only confirm. On twelve concrete points, her
> description matched what he could remember about the house. He was also
>
> able to explain what XI had tripped over: "That pipe in the hall was a
> piece of the old floor heating in the Champignionnière, which had been
>
> left bare when the floor had been removed."
>
>
> If we played the devil's advocate, we might suppose that XI had spent
> a day in Auderghem by chance, in the former Champignionnière, and that
>
> she had visited it. It is worth mentioning that at the time of the
> events XI was 15 years old and lived in Ghent. The Champignionnière
> was destroyed a year later to make way for a block of flats. Even if we
>
> only trust material evidence, it is difficult not to conclude that XI
> must have been present at the time of the murder. But isn't what she
> has said about the authors of the murder too incredible? Dutroux and
> Nihoul, committing a murder together in 1984? Didn't they meet in
> 1995?
>
>
> "Ladies and gentlemen, we do not need XI to solve this crime," said an
> investigator from the 3rd Criminal Research Section to the members of
> the Verwilghen Committee, overwhelmed by astonishment when he was heard
>
> in camera in October 1997. The man has spent months leafing through the
>
> old CID file. His conclusion was as follows: "The names of the
> murderers provided by XI have been indicated indirectly in the file
> since 1984."
>
>
> What follows is based on the testimonies from 1984.
>
>
> Together at the skating-rink.
>
>
> In the first few days after her murder, the police learned from her
> classmates that Christine Van Hees had been leading a double life in
> the months before her death. She had been missing school, not just on
> the morning of 13 February 1984 but also the whole week from 20 to 25
> January 1984. Without her parents knowing about it, she had received a
> medical certificate from Dr. Hallard. According to her friends,
> Christine often went out at night. All her friends pointed to the trail
>
> of the Poséidon ice-skating rink in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. At the rink,
>
> Ariane M. remembered that Christine had met "a certain Marc from the
> Mons region". Her brother met Christine not long before her death in a
> café with a certain Marc (later he would recognise him almost
> certainly as the younger Marc Dutroux) During the weekend before her
> death, Christine had a rendez-vous with " a certain Marc", according to
>
> another friend. This Marc rode a motorbike. The CID never managed to
> identify this mysterious figure. Françoise Dubois, the former wife of
> Marc Dutroux, was able to tell the investigators at the beginning of
> 1997 that he often used to go the skating rinks in Forest and in
> Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. "He often stayed all weekend in Brussels."
> Michelle Martin met her husband at the rink. At the end of 1983 she was
>
> at the end of her pregnancy. She confirmed in a statement given on 4
> December 1996 that Dutroux often went alone to make contact with young
> girls. At that time he used to ride a big motorbike.
>
>
> Christine also used to go swimming a lot. Afterwards, according to her
> friends, she would go to the cafeteria for a drink. On the first floor
> of the Etterbeek swimming-pool were the premises of a free radio
> station called Radio Activité. At the end of 1996, the radio station
> was one of the key elements in the investigation of the Neufchâteau
> public prosecutor's department. Because the leading character at
> Radio Activité was none other than Michel Nihoul. Radio Activité
> appeared on several occasions in the old file. Not long before her
> death, some of Christine's friends saw her at parties organised
> there.
>
>
> At the time of the investigations about Serge C., in 1984, there was a
> Radio Activité worker who came forward to offer "information" to the
> CID investigators. This information often pointed in the direction of
> the punk trail. This man received more attention from police officers
> than the discotheque porter Freddy V. He advised them "to go and have a
>
> look at the café Les Bouffons, a habitual meeting place for Radio
> Activité people". The porter noticed Christine there not long before
> her death. It wasn't really a place for a young girl like her,
> according to Freddy V. Especially when we discover that Patrick Haemers
>
> was also considered a habitué.
>
>
> In the middle of the eighties, investigating magistrate Jean-Claude Van
>
> Espen was obviously not to know that terms like "a certain Marc" or
> "Radio Activité" would one day become enormous alarm signals in this
> case. And yet there are other clues that point to Nihoul and his
> circle. On 27 April 1987, the Etterbeek police received a phone call.
> The conversation went as follows: - "Is that the Etterbeek Police
> Station? Excuse me, sir. If you want some useful information, go and
> have a look at the café Dolo, at 140 Rue Philippe Baucq." The police
> officer: "What's going on there?"
>
>
> "You might find out more about the Champignionnière."
> "What do you mean?"
> "On the corner of Rue Philippe Baucq, the Dolo. If you go there from
> time to time, you'll find out more about the Champignionnière."
> "Why do you say that, sir?"
> At this moment the caller was cut off. The conversation, recorded on
> tape, can be found in the old 64/85 file (statement 33797, Etterbeek
> Police). No investigations were ever made into the café Dolo. And yet
> there were also other reasons for doing so. Shortly after the murder,
> Muriel A. learnt that Christine had told her parents that she slept at
> her house every now and then - which was not true. Nathalie G.
> recalled that after a night out, two weeks before her death, Christine
> had begged her to accompany her home, "because she was afraid of
> someone".
>
>
> Then there was Fabienne K. She stated to the Brussels CID that she saw
> Christine every day on the bus, and that Christine had told her she was
>
> part of a group of people "older than her" who held "secret meetings".
> K. stressed the fact that Christine did not mention punks or skinheads.
>
> On 20 February 1984, Fabienne K. stated as follows (from statement no.
> 7112):
>
>
> "Christine never spoke about this to the girls in her class. She told
> me more or less that this group practised free love [...]. She told me
> that the group attracted her and worried her at the same time. She said
>
> she wanted to make a break from them because some serious things had
> happened [...]. Christine had a personal diary that she kept hidden
> somewhere [...]. She had clashed with another girl in the group. She
> felt very attracted by one of the members. That's how she described
> the group: 'They're pigs, but I feel good with them.' She told me
> that when you had become part of these circles, you would never be able
>
> to leave. If she spoke about it, they would kill her and set her house
> on fire. [...] She said there was no point talking about it because
> no-one would believe her."
>
>
> Fabienne K. confirmed her story to the CID in 1993, and again at the
> beginning of 1997 to the officers of the 3rd Criminal Research Section.
>
> So there was no real need for new clues. Meanwhile, XI had listed the
> addresses where Annie Bouty and/or Michel Nihoul lived in 1984. The
> addresses were checked and found to match. The BSR officers also
> resumed the search for cars with the eagle. And Marlène De Cockere, a
> friend of Nihoul, had bought a Mitsubishi Celeste in April 1983 with an
>
> eagle painted on the bonnet. This piece of evidence is the least
> certain of the series of checks carried out by the team of Warrant
> Officer De Baets. In the middle of the investigation into this car, De
> Baets and three other investigators were removed from the Neufchâteau
> unit in mid-August. (see inset).
>
>
> XI wasn't always so precise, true. And De Baets and his team
> sometimes worked in a hasty manner. But the small errors that the
> "re-examination" charged them with are not important enough to call the
>
> value of the investigation into question. At the transcription phase,
> things didn't always go smoothly. Warrant Officer De Baets and
> Philippe Hupez have her say in a statement that "Bernard Weinstein" was
>
> also present at the time of the murder. On the original video, it is
> rather different. XI speaks of a man "I think might have been
> Weinstein". Neither XI, nor Hupez, nor least of all De Baets made this
> correction. And yet it is of immense importance. Bernard Weinstein was
> in prison in France until the end of 1985. Just before they were
> dismissed, the investigators made another discovery about Marc Dutroux.
>
> On 15 February 1984, he opened a current account at the Crédit
> Professional bank in Hainaut. In the next three days, a total of
> 200,000 Belgian francs were paid into the account. 15th February, that
> is two days after the murder of Christine Van Hees.
>
>
> While awaiting the results of the "re-examination", investigating
> magistrate Van Espen has been following a new trail for the last few
> weeks: that of the Brussels punks...
>
>
> How the re-examination has "broken" the 1997 file
>
>
> Well before the beginning of the debate about the possible transfer of
> the annexed files of the Dutroux case to other judicial districts, such
>
> a transfer had already taken place on 27 January 1997 for some parts of
>
> the file 96/109 of the Neufchâteau public prosecutor's department.
> File 96/109 was the file opened by investigating magistrate Connerotte
> to gather together all the statements by the victims of paedophile
> crimes. When a testimony proved to have some link with an investigation
>
> in progress into the murder of a child, this part was transferred to
> the district concerned. In the case of the Champignonnière, the
> district concerned was Brussels.
>
>
> "You will have trouble," X predicted when the investigating officers
> thought she would be pleased at the news of the transfer. And yet
> everything indicated that the withdrawal of the file from Neufchâteau
> would be beneficial in terms of efficacy. If one of XI's statements
> can be considered significant, it is exactly this prediction.
>
>
> Things become difficult for XI
>
>
> The trouble would begin with the leaks concerning the letter sent by
> investigating magistrates Leys and Van Espen on 29 October 1996 to
> various judicial authorities. The two magistrates, specialised in
> financial cases, complained that the financial section (3rd Criminal
> Research Section) of the Brussels BSR was now working only on the
> Dutroux case and hardly at all on financial investigations. The reason
> why Van Espen complained at the end of 1996 of a lack of staff for his
> financial cases, but at the same time took back a file that he
> described as "the nail in my coffin" is not clear. The first thing that
>
> Van Espen discovered, on this occasion, was a thorough analysis of the
> old Van Hees file by a conscientious member of the BSR. In this
> analysis, Van Espen's investigation is described as erratic. It could
> be seen that he had constantly neglected all evidence that led to the
> trail of Dutroux and Nihoul.
>
>
> On 20 June 1997, a meeting took place between Van Espen, the
> Gendarmerie Commander Duterme (at the head of the Neufchâteau unit of
> the 3rd Criminal Research Section since the end of 1996) and several
> investigators. Warrant Officers De Baets and Mertens, who co-ordinated
> almost all the work of the unit, were not invited. There was a reason
> for this. The meeting was about them. Duterme and Van Espen claimed
> that De Baets had falsified a statement. What had happened? At the end
> of the hearing of 18 November (see above), De Baets showed XI a series
> of photos. One of them was that of Christine Van Hees. "Is she among
> these photos?" asked De Baets. XI nodded. "Would you point her out?".
> XI said no. She wanted the hearing to end and she didn't want to look
> at the photos any more "because everything comes back to me". De Baets
> insisted. XI got angry. She wanted to go home. She didn't want to
> testify ever again, she said. She deliberately pointed to another
> photo. In his report, De Baets wrote that "XI recognised the photo of
> Christine", because during the course of a later hearing she pointed to
>
> the photo without faltering.
>
>
> Duterme, however, accused De Baets of "false transcription". Van Espen
> added another complaint. He had discovered that De Baets had provided a
>
> piece of information about Nihoul to Councillor Marique of the
> Verwilghen Committee. A procedural fault, claimed Van Espen. De Baets
> should have asked for his permission. On 22 June, in a long letter to
> the public prosecutor Benoît Dejemeppe, Van Espen declared "his
> concern about the contamination of this investigation".
>
>
> The path taken by Van Espen's letter is a clear sign of the
> environment in which the 96/109 file rests. Dejemeppe sent the letter
> to the national magistrate Van Oudenhove, who sent it on to the
> Minister of Justice De Clerck. He sent it to the Public prosecutor of
> Liège, Thily, who judged it to be a matter for Brussels. Thily sent it
>
> back to Dejemeppe, who finally instructed investigating magistrate
> Pignolet to carry our an investigation for false transcription "against
>
> unknown parties". Meanwhile, various complaints began to pour in. At
> the CID, Superintendent Marnette accused Superintendent Suys, and vice
> versa. Due to a statement by Suys to the Verwilghen Committee, quoted
> wrongly in the press. Chief Superintendent De Vroom raged against the
> Brussels BSR because he thought it was the source of the mad incest
> story regarding his daughter. Within the 3rd Criminal Research Section,
>
> Duterme added a complaint against De Baets for the question of the
> photo. In some newspapers all this became a carry-on with De Baets
> indicated as the great orchestrator, also of the ridiculous search of
> the Abrasax Satanic sect, the Jumet searches and the Di Rupo affair...
>
>
> Pan publishes a "scoop"
>
>
> Pignolet was instructed to separate the wheat from the chaff. He looked
>
> mainly at the chaff. De Baets had nothing to do with Jumet, Abrasax, De
>
> Vroom or Di Rupo. If we study file 96/109 closely, we discover that on
> 6 December 1996, in report no. 117.487, De Baets noted carefully that
> on 18 November XI had pointed to the wrong photo because she was
> breaking down. Van Espen and Duterme do not seem to have noticed this
> report. The deluge of complaints soon made people forget that there was
>
> an investigation into the murder of Christine Van Hees. It seemed, in
> fact, that the murder investigation was only secondary. At a certain
> point it was only a case of "faulty and suggestive methods of inquiry",
>
> and investigating magistrate Jacques Langlois ordered a
> "re-examination" of all the investigations that had been opened on the
> basis of file 96/109. This "re-examination", which was to take no more
> than a few weeks - was to find out whether De Baets and his team
> really influenced their witnesses.
>
>
> On 21 August, the weekly magazine Pan (owned by the former Prime
> Minister Paul Vanden) wrote that De Baets and three of his officers at
> the Neufchâteau unit had been removed from the investigation. The
> headline was "Verwilghen, Knokke-out" - whatever that means. The
> strange thing is that no decision had yet been made. It was only on 25
> August that the four officers were informed by Colonel Brabant that
> they had been removed from the unit, "temporarily" until the completion
>
> of the re-examination. Today, 7 January 1997, the re-examination is
> still in progress. File 96/109 has already been re-read twice. After a
> first (unofficial) re-reading, then a second, a third was begun at the
> beginning of July. According to the latest news, this has almost
> reached completion and does not in any way suggest that XI was "helped"
>
> during questioning. Meanwhile, the 3rd Criminal Research Section is
> divided into two camps which are at daggers drawn, and no-one believes
> that the four officers will be able to rejoin the Neufchâteau unit. It
>
> seems that nothing will ever come out of any investigation. After the
> many examinations and re-examinations of the confidential file 96/109,
> so many copies have circulated that the authors of the crimes described
>
> by XI must by now know the contents better than anyone. At the end of
> November, one of the Gendarmerie analysts left the whole Van Hees file
> lying around in the boot of his car, where it was stolen.
>
>
> To the vast majority of Americans, the name Marc Dutroux does not mean
> much. Drop that name in Belgium though and you are likely to elicit
> some very visceral reactions. Dutroux - convicted along with his wife
> in 1989 for the rape and violent abuse of five young girls, the
> youngest of whom was just eleven - now stands accused of being a key
> player in an international child prostitution and pornography ring
> whose practices included kidnapping, rape, sadistic torture, and
> murder.
>
>
> Dutroux was sentenced in 1989 to thirteen years for his crimes, but was
>
> freed after having served just three. This was in spite of the fact
> that, as prison governor Yvan Stuaert would later tell a parliamentary
> commission: "A medical report described him as a perverse psychopath,
> an explosive mix. He was an evident danger to society." The man who
> turned Dutroux loose on society, Justice Minister Melchior Wathelet,
> was rewarded with a prestigious appointment to serve as a judge at the
> European Court of Justice at The Hague.
>
>
> Shortly after Dutroux's release, young girls began to disappear in
> the vicinity of some of his homes. Though technically unemployed and
> drawing welfare from the state, he nevertheless owned at least six
> houses and lived quite lavishly. His rather lucrative income appears to
>
> have been derived from trading in child sex-slaves, child prostitution,
>
> and child pornography. Many of his houses appeared to stand vacant,
> though at least some of them were in fact used as torture and
> imprisonment centers where kidnapped girls were taken and held in
> underground dungeons. Some of Dutroux's homes were used in this way
> for several years following his early release, with a growing body of
> evidence to indicate that fact to the police. Authorities nevertheless
> failed to act on the information, or acted on it in ways that implied
> either complete incompetence (according to most press reports), or
> police complicity in the operation (according to any sort of logic).
>
>
> Officials seem to have routinely ignored tips that later proved
> accurate, including a report from Dutroux's own mother that her son was
>
> holding girls prisoner in one of his houses. In addition, key facts
> were withheld from investigators working on the disappearances and
> lines of communication were unaccountably broken, inexcusably hindering
>
> the investigation. Police did search one of Dutroux's homes on no less
> than three separate occasions over the course of the investigation. On
> at least two of those occasions, two of the missing girls were being
> held in heinous conditions, imprisoned in a custom-built dungeon in the
>
> basement. Nevertheless, according to the Guardian, the police searches
> came up empty - even though the investigating officers reported
> "hearing children's voices on one occasion."
>
>
> It was not until August 13, 1996, four years after the disappearances
> began, that authorities arrested Dutroux, along with his wife (an
> elementary school teacher), a lodger, a policeman, and a man the
> Guardian described as "an associate with political connections" -
> elsewhere identified as Jean-Michel Nihoul, a Brussels businessman and
> nightclub owner. One of those taken into custody - Michel Lelievre,
> described in a May 2002 BBC report as a "drug addict and petty
> thief" - reportedly told his interrogators that at least some of the
> girls abducted by the ring "were kidnapped to order, for someone
> else." This was just one of many statements by suspects and witnesses
> that would later be dismissed by Belgian officials.
>
>
> Two days after the arrests, police again searched Dutroux's home and
> discovered the soundproof dungeon/torture center. As CNN reported,
> three years earlier "police ignored tips from an informant who said
> Dutroux was building secret cellars to hold girls before selling them
> abroad." In addition, in 1995, the same informant had told police
> that Dutroux had offered an unidentified third man "the equivalent of
> $3,000 to $5,000 to kidnap girls." Incredibly, it was later reported
> by the Guardian that police actually had in their possession a
> videotape of the dungeon being constructed: "Belgian police could
> have saved the lives of two children [who were] allegedly murdered by
> the paedophile Marc Dutroux if they had watched a video seized from his
>
> home which showed him building their hidden cell." The tape had been
> seized in one of the earlier searches.
>
>
> At the time of the final search, two fourteen-year-old girls were found
>
> imprisoned in the dungeon, chained and starving. They described to
> police how they had been used as child prostitutes and in the
> production of child pornography videos. More than 300 such videos were
> taken into custody by the police.
>
>
> On August 17, 1996, the story got grimmer as police dug up the bodies
> of two eight-year-old girls at another of Dutroux's homes. It would
> later be learned that the girls had been kept in one of Dutroux's
> dungeons for nine months after their abductions, during which time they
>
> were repeatedly tortured and sexually assaulted - all captured on
> videotape. The girls were then left to slowly starve to death.
> Alongside of their decimated corpses was the body of Bernard Weinstein,
>
> a former accomplice of Dutroux who had occupied one of the houses for
> several years. Weinstein had been buried alive.
>
>
> A few weeks later, two more girls were found buried under concrete at
> yet another of the Dutroux properties. By that time, ten people
> connected to the case were reportedly in custody. As the body count
> mounted, the outrage of the Belgian people grew. They demanded to know
> why this man, dubbed the 'Belgian Beast,' had been released after
> having served such an absurdly short sentence. And they demanded to
> know why, as evidence had continued to mount and girls had continued to
>
> disappear, the police had chosen to do nothing. How many girls, they
> wanted to know, had been killed due to this inaction?
>
>
> Adding further fuel to the fire, as a Los Angeles Times report
> revealed, were claims by "a highly regarded children's activist,
> Marie-France Botte ... [that] the Justice Ministry is sitting on a
> politically sensitive list of customers of pedophile videotapes." The
> same report noted, "the affair has become further clouded by the
> discovery of a motorcycle that reportedly matches the description of
> one used in the 1991 assassination of prominent Belgian businessman and
>
> politician Andre Cools. Michel Bourlet, the head prosecutor on the
> pedophile case, meanwhile, has publicly declared that the investigation
>
> can be thoroughly pursued only without political interference. Several
> years ago, Bourlet was removed from the highly charged Cools case,
> which remains unsolved."
>
>
> A report in Time magazine alluded to murky links between the Dutroux
> operation and organized crime figures. Marc Verwilghen - the chief
> investigating magistrate on the case - stated the case more bluntly:
> "For me, the Dutroux affair is a question of organised crime." Also
> mentioned in the Time article was the use of secret "underground
> tunnels," not unlike those described by children a decade earlier at
> the infamous McMartin Preschool.
>
>
> Outrage continued to grow as more arrests were made and evidence of
> high-level government and police complicity continued to emerge. One of
>
> Dutroux's accomplices, businessman Jean-Michel Nihoul, confessed to
> organizing an 'orgy' at a Belgian chateau that had been attended by
> government officials, a former European Commissioner, and a number of
> law enforcement officers. A Belgian senator noted, quite accurately,
> that such parties were part of a system "which operates to this day
> and is used to blackmail the highly placed people who take part."
>
>
> According to the BBC, Nihoul has brazenly claimed: "I am the monster
> of Belgium." He has all but dared the state to prosecute him,
> claiming that he is beyond the reach of the law because he has
> information that, if made public, "would bring the Government and the
> entire state down."
>
>
> In September 1996, twenty-three suspects - at least nine of whom were
> police officers - were detained and questioned about their possible
> complicity in the crimes and/or their negligence in investigating the
> case. As the Los Angeles Times noted in a very brief, two-sentence
> report, the detainments "were the latest indication that police in
> the southern city of Charleroi may have helped cover up the alleged
> crimes of Marc Dutroux." The arrests followed raids on the police
> officers' homes and on the headquarters of the Charleroi police force
> and were based on information supplied by police inspector Georges
> Zicot, who had already been charged as an accomplice. Three magistrates
>
> had also reportedly been interrogated by police investigators.
>
>
> Just days before the arrests, police had also arrested five suspects in
>
> the Cools assassination, including a former regional government
> minister named Alain VanderBiest. Strangely enough, the News Telegraph
> reported that: "Police investigating the Cools murder in 1991 ...
> have been given helpful leads by some of those arrested in the Dutroux
> case." The Telegraph also noted that Cools "had promised
> 'shocking revelations' before his death."
>
>
> On October 14, 1996 came the straw that broke the camel's back:
> Jean-Marc Connerotte, who had been serving as the investigating judge
> on the Dutroux case, was dismissed by the Belgian Supreme Court.
> Connerotte was viewed by the people as something of a rarity: a public
> official/law enforcement officer who actually appeared to be pursuing a
>
> prosecution, rather than a cover-up. The News Telegraph described him
> as: "the only figure in the judiciary who enjoys the nation's
> confidence." As the New York Times reported, Connerotte "became a
> national hero in August after saving two children from a secret dungeon
>
> kept by a convicted child rapist and ordering the inquiry that led to
> the discovery of the bodies of four girls kidnapped by a child
> pornography network." He had also arrested three men in 1994 as
> suspects in the Cools assassination - just before the case was
> transferred to the jurisdiction of another magistrate.
>
>
> Victimized as a child by top-level perpetrators who today claim she is
> insane. The detail of Regina's testimony is extraordinary. In 1996, she
>
> named and described in great detail, to a specially assembled police
> team, the people and places involved in the paedophile ring. Senior
> judges, one of the country's most powerful politicians - now dead - and
>
> a very influential banker were included. One of the regular organisers
> of these parties, she said, was the man she knew as 'Mich', Jean Michel
>
> Nihoul. The sessions not only involved sex, they included sadism,
> torture and murder; and again, she described in detail, the place, the
> victims and how they were killed. She also claimed the young Marc
> Dutroux was there. "At these parties Nihoul was a sort of party beast
> while Dutroux was more on the side."  SEE VIDEO CLIPS ON THE "BELGIAN
> X-FILES"
>
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent_europe/1962244.stm
>
>
> A May 2002 BBC report revealed that, after Connerotte's removal, a
> "special team of police officers interviewing Regina Louf and the
> other 'X' witnesses, as they were called, were the next to be
> sacked." The "X" witnesses were victims of the pedophile ring who
> had come forward to tell harrowing tales of their victimization.
>
>
> A woman named Regina Louf was the first of eleven such victims to be
> interviewed by police officials. Louf claimed that she had been
> victimized by the ring - which included her parents and her grandmother
>
> - from the time that she was a very young child. She described the
> operation in detail to authorities, supplying them with names - names
> that included "senior judges, one of the country's most powerful
> politicians - now dead - and a very influential banker." According to
> Louf, the operation "was big business - blackmail - there was a lot
> of money involved." Many of her victimizers, she said, were secretly
> filmed for blackmail purposes.
>
>
> Louf identified Michel Nihoul as a regular organizer of 'parties.'
> These parties, she said, "not only involved sex, they included
> sadism, torture and murder." She described in detail the murdered
> victims, and how and where they were killed. The BBC reported that when
>
> police checked into Louf's claims, they were able to verify "key
> elements of Regina's story and found [that] at least one murder that
> she says she witnessed matched an unsolved murder." Nevertheless, the
> same BBC report revealed that, "today in Belgium Regina Louf's
> reputation is destroyed. The Prosecutor General of Liege, Anne Thilly,
> declares she's completely mad despite numerous statements from
> independent psychologists to the contrary." According to the judges
> now on the case, "her testimony has been declared worthless" and
> will not be presented in any trial of Dutroux or his associates.
>
>
> Connerotte's removal from the Dutroux case fanned the smoldering
> flames of public outrage; as the Times reported, "Hundreds of
> thousands of people had petitioned the high court to retain the
> judge." Adding yet more fuel to the fire, prosecutor Michel Bourlet
> was claiming that evidence indicated a pedophile ring, composed of the
> wealthy and powerful, had been protected for twenty-five years. With
> the families of Dutroux's victims calling for a general strike, men and
>
> women all across the country walked away from their jobs in protest as
> railway workers and bus drivers shut down public transportation,
> bringing some cities to a virtual standstill. The Telegraph reported
> that, "in Liege, firemen turned their hoses on the city's court
> building" to symbolize the massive clean-up that was in order.
>
>
> On October 20, 1996, 350,000 citizens of the tiny nation of Belgium
> took to the streets of Brussels dressed all in white, demanding the
> reform of a system so corrupt that it would protect the abusers,
> rapists, torturers, and killers of children. The political fallout from
>
> the case ultimately brought about the resignation of Belgium's State
> Police Chief, Interior Minister, and Justice Minister, who became
> sacrificial lambs tossed to the outraged masses to avoid what could
> easily have exploded into a full-scale insurrection by the people,
> particularly after police 'incompetence' allowed Dutroux to
> 'escape' and remain at large for a brief time in April 1998.
>
>
> There were in fact calls from the people for the entire coalition
> government to step down. Months later, an opinion survey by Brussels'
> Le Soir newspaper found that only one in five Belgians still had
> confidence in the federal government and in the nation's criminal
> justice system. As the Los Angeles Times reported in January 1998,
> "the conviction remains stubbornly widespread that members of the
> upper crust - government ministers, the Roman Catholic Church, the
> court of King Albert II - belonged to child sex rings, or protected
> them."
>
>
> A formal denial by King Albert II will go into every book
> FLASHBACK: Belgian king wins paedophile rebuttal. The French publishers
>
> of a book about paedophelia in Belgium have been ordered to insert a
> formal denial by the Belgian King, Albert II, of some of the
> allegations it contains. King Albert and the Belgian Government went to
>
> court in Paris because they said the book, The Paedophile Dossier,
> contained a series of unfounded libels. The book, by two French
> journalists, is a sensationalist account of the case of Marc Dutroux,
> the alleged sex offender and killer whose discovery five years ago
> caused such trauma in Belgium and the country's political
> establishment. Apart from general accusations of government cover-ups,
> the authors personally connect the name of King Albert with the
> scandal, saying that as crown prince he attended parties at which
> paedophiles were present.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1609411.stm
>
>
> The lingering distrust of the people was not alleviated by the fact
> that a parliamentary inquiry had identified, in April 1997, thirty
> officials who had, as the Times tactfully put it, "failed to uncover
> Dutroux's misdeeds." Nearly a year later, none of them had yet
> suffered any repercussions. Additionally, at least ten missing children
>
> suspected of having fallen prey to Dutroux's operation have never
> been found.
>
>
> Just a few months before the parliamentary commission issued its report
>
> on the Dutroux case, viewed by many as a shameless cover-up, the
> Telegraph reported, "grim rumors ... have been circulating that a
> second paedophile network at least as appalling may have been operating
>
> in parallel to that said to involve Dutroux." The bodies of seven
> children were believed to have been hidden by the ring, which was
> thought could be linked to Dutroux through Michel Nihoul. Two months
> after that, a man named Patrick Derochette and three of his family
> members were arrested following the discovery of the body of a
> nine-year-old girl. Rumors quickly began circulating linking that crime
>
> to Dutroux as well. Like Dutroux, Derochette had previously been
> convicted on multiple counts of child rape. He had been committed to a
> psychiatric institution from which he was released after just six
> weeks. Authorities quickly denied that there was any connection between
>
> the cases. In January 1998, however, the Telegraph reported, "new
> evidence from a lawyer involved in the investigations blows a hole in
> previous police claims that there was no link between the cases
> involving the alleged child murderers Marc Dutroux and Patrick
> Derochette." Once again, the connection was said to be through
> Nihoul.
>
>
> In April 1999, the Guardian weighed in with this report: "the highly
> respected chairman of a parliamentary inquiry into the [Dutroux] case
> claims that his commission's findings were muzzled by political and
> judicial leaders to prevent details emerging of complicity in the
> crimes ... Mr. Verwilghen claims that senior political and legal
> figures refused to cooperate with the inquiry. He says magistrates and
> police were officially told to refuse to answer certain questions, in
> what he describes as 'a characteristic smothering operation.'"
>
>
> As of May 2002, nearly six years after Dutroux was taken into custody,
> his trial had yet to begin. Parents of victims continued to loudly
> shout of a cover-up, and the Telegraph was reporting that: "It was
> recently learnt that scientific tests on 6,000 hairs found in the
> [underground dungeon] began only this year."  Those tests, of course,
> could reveal how many victims passed through Dutroux's chamber of
> horrors. Perhaps more importantly, they could also, as a BBC News
> report noted in January 2002, "establish whether the girls had any
> other visitors."
>
>
> Anne Thilly, the aforementioned Prosecutor General of Liege who
> dismissed as "mad" a key prosecution witness, has been quoted as
> saying, "there was no need to get the hairs analysed as no one else
> entered the cage. There was no network so there was no need to look for
>
> evidence of one. In any case, the hairs have all now been analysed."
> Thilly gave no indication of how she knew there was nothing to find
> before even bothering to look. And contrary to her claims, the BBC
> reported in May 2002 that the hairs had "still not been analysed,"
> according to "sources central to the investigation." Thilly has
> also claimed "the bodies [recovered from Dutroux's properties] were
> too decomposed to test for DNA." The BBC though noted "the autopsy
> states quite clearly that the bodies were not decomposed. Samples were
> taken. It is just that no one seems to know what has happened to the
> results." It would appear, alas, as though Anne Thilly is a rather
> brazen liar.
>
>
> The January BBC report came on the heels of an interview that the
> imprisoned Dutroux granted a Flemish journalist and a Belgian senator.
> Therein, Dutroux was quoted as admitting, "a network with all kinds
> of criminal activities really does exist. But the authorities don't
> want to look into it." He also acknowledged the existence of "a
> well-grounded [paedophile] ring. I maintained regular contact with
> people in this ring. However, the law does not want to investigate this
>
> lead."
>
>
> If the Marc Dutroux case were some kind of aberration, it would still
> be a disturbing story for the level of unspeakable corruption and
> depravity of the Belgian political and law enforcement establishment of
>
> which it speaks. Far more disturbing is the fact that it does not
> appear to be an isolated case at all.
>
>
> As 1999 drew to a close, the nation of Latvia was rocked by a child
> prostitution/child pornography scandal that reached to the very top of
> the political power structure. The case first broke in August, when
> police uncovered a massive operation involving as many as 2,000
> severely abused children. When media reports began linking top Latvian
> officials to the case, a special parliamentary commission was assembled
>
> to investigate the emerging allegations. In February 2000, the chairman
>
> of the commission delivered a report to Parliament linking the
> country's Prime Minister and Justice Minister, the director of the
> State Revenue Service, and a number of army and law enforcement
> officers to the case. A campaign was immediately begun to discredit the
>
> committee chairman, including allegations that he is tied to the former
>
> KGB - a classic case of red baiting that enabled the allegations to
> be dismissed as 'Communist' propaganda.
>
>
> On November 27, 2002, The Guardian reported that many among
> Portugal's elite were linked to a pedophile ring as well: "A
> scandal over a paedophile ring run from a state orphanage gripped
> Portugal yesterday as it threatened to engulf diplomats, media
> personalities and senior politicians. Photographs of unnamed senior
> government officials with young boys from Lisbon's Casa Pia orphanage
> were among the evidence reportedly available to police after they
> arrested a former orphanage employee called Carlos Silvino." One
> revelation in the case was "that systematic sexual abuse of children
> at the home had allegedly been going on for more than 20 years and had
> been known to police and other authorities for most of that time."
> Teresa Costa Macedo, a former secretary of state for families, has said
>
> that she sent a dossier to police twenty years ago containing
> "damning proof" of the abuse, including photographs and eyewitness
> statements. The information was not acted upon, and, for her trouble,
> Macedo became the victim of a campaign of threats and intimidation.
>
>
> In June 2003, the Independent reported that police "at first denied
> her reports existed," but then later produced them. Macedo has
> testified before parliament that the former president, Antonio Ramalho
> Eanes, the former foreign secretary, Jaime Garcia, and elements within
> the police all knew of the ongoing abuse. An official report claims
> that, "among the children still living at Casa Pia, at least 128 had
> been subjected to sexual abuse. Many are deaf and dumb." Countless
> other victims have passed through the facility over the last thirty
> years. Among those detained or questioned in the case were Carlos Cruz,
>
> known in Portugal as "Mr. Television"; Manuel Abrantes, a former
> director of Casa Pia; Joao Ferreira Diniz, a doctor at Casa Pia; Jorge
> Ritto, a former ambassador to UNESCO; Hugo Marcal, Carlos Silvino's
> former attorney; Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, Portugal's Socialist Party
> leader; television talk show host Herman Jose; and Paulo Pedroso, a
> former Labour minister.
>
>
> A follow-up report in the Independent noted that Casa Pia, founded by a
>
> police superintendent, first "came under scrutiny 20 years ago when a
> young inmate died ... Officials found the home's doors open all night
> and youngsters in a cruising area for male prostitutes. Four children
> aged between eight and 12, missing for a fortnight, were found in a
> luxury flat in nearby Cascais owned by a diplomat." That diplomat was
> Jorge Ritto. It is now alleged that Silvino, an employee and former
> resident of Casa Pia, acted for years to procure young boys for rich
> and powerful pedophiles, including Ritto. Adolescent witnesses have
> claimed on Portuguese television that they were offered enticements and
>
> "then raped ... and recruited for sex parties with powerful
> 'friends.' Others, now adult, have told of chilling experiences
> long suppressed." A Portuguese organization calling itself Innocence
> in Danger has been working for years to publicize the problem of child
> abuse and child abductions in the country, but have been unable to
> penetrate what they describe as a "media blackout."
>
>
> As of February 2003, a campaign was underway in Scotland to unseal
> records that have been sealed for 100 years under special order. The
> records concern the activities of Thomas Hamilton, a notorious child
> molester/murderer who was credited with killing sixteen schoolchildren
> and a teacher, and then himself, in 1996. One police report sealed
> under the order "concerns Thomas Hamilton's activities at a summer
> camp in Loch Lomond in 1991, five years before the shootings," and
> allegedly links Hamilton to "figures in the Scottish establishment,
> including two senior politicians and a lawyer," according to the
> Guardian.
>
>
> A report in Scotland's Sunday Herald, from March 2003, revealed that
> 106 documents had been sealed. These included "a letter connected to
> Hamilton, which was sent by George Robertson, currently head of NATO,
> to Michael Forsyth, who was then Secretary of State for Scotland," as
> well as "correspondence relating to Thomas Hamilton's alleged
> involvement in Freemasonry." A deputy justice minister, Michael
> Matheson, was quoted in the article questioning the official
> justification for sealing the documents: "The explanation to date
> about the 100-year rule was that it was put in place to protect the
> interests of children named in the Central Police Report. How can that
> explanation stand when children aren't named?"
>
>
> On September 29, 2000, The Irish Times reported that yet another
> pedophile network had surfaced: "Eight people were arrested in Italy
> and three in Russia, and police said 1,700 people were being
> investigated in Italy." The images traded by this ring were
> "divided into several categories ... The most gruesome, police said,
> was coded 'Necros Pedo,' in which children were raped and tortured
> to death."
>
>
> And so it is that we first confront that most disturbing of topics -
> snuff films, which most people assume do not actually exist. As
> recently as February 1999, the New York Post assured readers that:
> "Snuff films are the stuff of urban legend ... how did this legend
> get started? No one knows." The unfortunate truth though is that
> snuff films do actually exist, and they likely have existed for as long
>
> as film has existed, though they were not always known by that name.
> According to the Post: "The term 'snuff' was actually coined
> during the Charles Manson case, when press reports repeated a rumor
> that the Manson 'family' had filmed home movies of the brutal
> slayings." Other reports hold that the term was coined in 1976 by a
> writer for the New York Times who was in need of a phrase to describe
> reports of murders following sexual activity being captured on film.
>
>
> In the late 1970s, as Carl Raschke noted in Painted Black, the "Texas
> House Select Committee on Child Pornography disclosed ... that
> investigators probing leads to organized crime in Houston, Dallas, and
> other major cities found that 'slave' auctions for sixteen- and
> seventeen-year-old boys were routinely held in Mexico. Some of the boys
>
> were featured in brutal snuff or 'slasher' movies." Raschke also
> quotes from a study by U.S. mental health professionals that claims
> that a child from Mexico "can be packaged, delivered, and sold deep
> within [the United States] in a short time," and that many are
> purchased solely "for the purpose of killing."
>
>
> In Enslaved, Gordon Thomas reported that: "At the start of the year
> [1991] Britain's Scotland Yard was continuing to investigate reports
> that up to twenty children in London had been murdered last year in
> [snuff films] and the video tapes sold on the Continent." Journalist
> Nick Davies, writing for the Guardian in November 2000, revisited that
> investigation, which was centered on a group of British pedophiles
> living in Amsterdam. The investigation revealed that the men were
> running gay brothels that were essentially 'fronts' for trafficking
> underage boys, many purchased from the streets of economically ravaged
> Eastern Europe, and others collected from the streets of London.
> Prominent among the group of pedophiles were a man named Alan Williams,
>
> known as the "Welsh Witch," and another named Warwick Spinks, who
> according to Davies, "pioneered the trafficking of boys as young as
> 10."
>
>
> The men used the boys in the production of child pornography and,
> according to several witnesses, in the production of snuff films.
>
>
> Davies wrote: "not just once but repeatedly, evidence had come to the
>
>
> attention of police in England and the Netherlands, that, for pleasure
> and profit, some of the exiled paedophiles in Amsterdam had murdered
> boys in front of the camera." Indeed, witnesses had independently
> given descriptions of snuff films that were remarkably consistent in
> the details of the types of torture used and the manner of death,
> though the descriptions of the victim and the filming location
> differed, indicating that a number of such films had been made. One
> witness claimed to have seen five such films.
>
> In the fall of 1998, British detectives flew to Amsterdam to
> investigate a particularly detailed account provided by a witness. The
> investigators had in their possession: a detailed description of the
> apartment where the witness had viewed the tape; the name of ...