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