Outcry in Belgium Over WikiLeaks publications of Dutroux dossier
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[highlight]International whistle-blower site WikiLeaks was again at the centre of attention Wednesday as Belgian officials criticised the publication of a confidential dossier on convicted paedophile murderer Marc Dutroux.[/highlight]
[release]WikiLeaks, which last month angered the US administration by publishing 92,000 pages of classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, was found to have posted on its website a 1,235-page account of the Belgian police investigation on Dutroux.
"It is an unfortunate publication because the documents come from a dossier that is still covered by judicial secrecy," the prosecutor general from the Belgian town of Liege, Cedric Visart de Bocarme, told state broadcaster RTBF.
The material, compiled by prosecutors ahead of Dutroux' trial in 2004, has actually been on the WikiLeaks website since April 17, 2009, but its presence was only reported Tuesday by Belgian media.
The dossier mentions names, telephone numbers, addresses and bank details of witnesses and people involved in the investigations, including high-ranking Belgian politicians such as Elio Di Rupo, currently leading talks on formation of a new government.
Di Rupo was suspected to have been a member of a paedophile ring linked to Dutroux, but was cleared of all wrongdoing. The WikiLeaks dossier includes testimonies of men claiming to have been abused by Di Rupo as minors, which were later disproved.
"There is some true, some false, some very disparate information here, involving some people who have done nothing wrong, who have simply been mentioned in an investigation and are thus exposed to public contempt, whereas all this material should have remained classified," Visart de Bocarme said.
The dossier also contains a summary of Dutroux' interrogations, in which he confesses to police of having kidnapped and raped several young girls.
Jean-Denis Lejeune, the father of one of the victims, told the RTL-TVI channel that "exposing in full view" the contents of the investigations "was not a normal thing to do."
The Dutroux case remains the biggest scandal in Belgium's recent history, as it exposed a murky world of child abusers with alleged high-up connections to the country's establishment, including the police and the government.
The child killer was sentenced to life in 2004 for the kidnapping and rape of six girls and for murdering four of them and an accomplice.[/release]
Why now, 16 months after the release? :confused:
[QUOTE=imadaman;24363713]Why now, 16 months after the release? :confused:[/QUOTE]
It's Belgium, what do you expect?
Link to the document?
Wikileaks is branching out.
Doesn't wikileaks have bigger fish to fry than a pedo?
[QUOTE=bravehat;24363810]Doesn't wikileaks have bigger fish to fry than a pedo?[/QUOTE]
Once again, WL only release the documents they are given, they don't actively attempt to acquire them from their undercover agents in all the world governments.
Good to see they aren't focusing exclusively on the United States.
They never were...
[QUOTE=bravehat;24363810]Doesn't wikileaks have bigger fish to fry than a pedo?[/QUOTE]
think of the children :downs:!
[QUOTE=imadaman;24363889]Once again, WL only release the documents they are given, they don't actively attempt to acquire them from their undercover agents in all the world governments.[/QUOTE]
Good point.
Just seems like a waste to me, this is one guy, sure he made a few lives hell (maybe more can't say I know the story behind this guy) but just seems like they could be setting up bigger and bolder stuff.
Yeah well, unfortunately I don't have access to any classified/juicy documents, so can't leak them myself... :frown:
[QUOTE=bravehat;24364093]Good point.
Just seems like a waste to me, this is one guy, sure he made a few lives hell (maybe more can't say I know the story behind this guy) but just seems like they could be setting up bigger and bolder stuff.[/QUOTE]
It's not just that. The case revealed some really glaring incompetence by Belgian police. For example when they searched the suspect's house, they somehow "missed" two of the victims that was in his basement.
This report, among other things, exposes some issues that showed the police were not only incompetent in their investigation, but raises the possibility about corruption.
Though what I found more interesting is that this was released for sometime- April of 2009. The authorities only realize now?
i'm appalled that information on many innocents were released. that's some pretty lazy work to release info like that without removng it.
[QUOTE=MercZ;24371335]It's not just that. The case revealed some really glaring incompetence by Belgian police. For example when they searched the suspect's house, they somehow "missed" two of the victims that was in his basement.
This report, among other things, exposes some issues that showed the police were not only incompetent in their investigation, but raises the possibility about corruption.
Though what I found more interesting is that this was released for sometime- April of 2009. The authorities only realize now?[/QUOTE]
Don't worry about it, my country has always been slow internet-wise. They don't check the internet until some one gives them an anonymous tip.
They totally lost their shit when they discovered 4chan as well. :v:
[B]Propaganda[/B]
Meh.
[QUOTE=imadaman;24363713]
Why now, 16 months after the release? :confused:[/QUOTE]
Because of the increased attention to WikiLeaks. No one really noticed it before, but the recent scandals have made everyone go through their leaks with a fine tooth comb. Could be a ploy to try to defame WikiLeaks, but I doubt Assange will care; I'm sure he released them for a reason and he'd stand by that reason.
[QUOTE=bravehat;24364093]Good point.
Just seems like a waste to me, this is one guy, sure he made a few lives hell (maybe more can't say I know the story behind this guy) but just seems like they could be setting up bigger and bolder stuff.[/QUOTE]
Wikileaks release anything and everything they are given (I think they check its real first though).
Marc Dutroux was one of the most disgusting fuckers to ever walk this planet. He starved two 8-year-old girls to death after days of repeated rapes and torture, and was notorious for burying the victims he desposed of alive.
I would love to watch him burn.
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