Psychopath child killer Marc Dutroux has been called “the monster of Belgium” since he a

Psychopath child killer Marc Dutroux has been called “the monster of Belgium” since he and his then wife, who acted as his accomplice, murdered four girls as young as eight years old. The Belgian serial killer planned a mass abduction of girls to create his own underground city of kidnapped children.

Two of the girls were buried alive, two starved to death as Dutroux’s wife Michelle Martin fed the dogs guarding the imprisoned. Two other girls miraculously were rescued before Dutroux had time to kill them. One of the girls had spent 80 days chained up and raped in a filthy secret room built into one of the psychopath’s many properties.

He decided to compose letters to the parents of his victims. Dutroux, who claims freedom is his human “right” as a citizen is writing the letters “to demonstrate he is not necessarily the cold monster” described in accounts of his terrible crimes.

The father of one of Dutroux’s victims denounced the letter on Facebook as “purely strategic for his release”. J

But the justice system in Belgium was partly responsible for the fact that the psychopathic child molester was free to commit them.

It has never been fully explained why Belgian police didn’t go straight to Dutroux and arrest him when little girls across the country began to go missing.

Dutroux, the child of teachers who worked in the Belgian Congo, trained as an electrician and began his criminal career stealing cars, dealing drugs and robbing people in violent muggings.He made enough money trading stolen cars to countries behind the iron curtain to buy seven houses, three of which he would use to torture children. At his main residence in Marcinelle, an old mining suburb in the southern Belgian town of Charleroi, he built a secret cellar hole one metre wide, 1.6m tall and just over 2m long. It was hidden behind a concrete door disguised as a shelf.