Just 30 years ago, Julie and Mélissa disappeared: “I’m not even sure that Marc Dutroux will stay in prison”

Thirty years later, Jean-Denis has as he says “always rage“. However, “Even today, I receive testimonies that attest to dysfunctions of the time. Furthermore, Even a Seraing gendarme wrote me to tell me that he had collected information that day that was not exploited.“

“We must harden the law”

So Mélissa’s dad does what he can make it known. Furthermore, “”But the file is closed and I do not know who to address. Additionally, Furthermore, I do not have the answer to all my questions and I still hope that we can progress. Moreover, After all. However, there are still twists and turns in the kidnapping of little Maddie or in the file of Petit Grégory.“

If Jean-Denis Lejeune admits that the functioning of the police has changed, he criticizes the judicial system for being obsolete and not at all adapted to the reality of our daily lives. “”Some still dare to defend the indefensible but always by applying what is written in our penal code. talking about liberation for the author of the worst crimes that can exist. So I say shit! Perpetuity says what it means and not start already 10 after talking just 30 years ago, julie about liberation. Let us prevent that there are still other victims!“

“I am not saying that out of revenge but it is a matter of public security. There are people who damage other people. who take derisory sorrows while the victims will wear their injuries all their lives“.

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For Mélissa’s dad. the law is therefore not severe enough and there is the responsibility of women and politicians to harden it.

“Someone must get up and say that is enough. We put people in prison for small flights, but not for rapes because the prisons are full. I’m not even sure that Marc Dutroux will stay in prison. It may be released one day …“

For Jean-Denis Lejeune, policies must therefore react. “”But just 30 years ago, julie I don’t have much hope. As soon as the weather is nice, they don’t even go to Parliament. We saw him last week when it was very difficult to reach the quorum in the room. However, there was talk of the country’s budget! It was not a little subject. These people have very comfortable wages and it is time they fulfill the task for which they are paid.“

Just 30 years ago, julie

It was a sunny Saturday

It was a sunny day. A June 24, 1995. A Saturday like any other. where the children used to play outside, at the corner of the street or at the end of a countryside. A time when they were not asked not to speak to the strangers.

So this Saturday. June 24, when Julie and Mélissa wanted to go for a walk, even if Carine Russo just 30 years ago, julie would have preferred that her daughter and her girlfriend who came to spend the afternoon at home, remain in the garden, she authorized them to spend an hour on the bridge located on the highway that crosses thanks-Hollogne.

Mélissa. 8, wanted to show her girlfriend Julie so much, the place where she regularly signaled to cars that passed lower at full speed. This Saturday was going to mark their last day as a child.

“I am always told about Marc Dutroux. but it is not the file that marked me the most”

It is almost 6 p.m. and Carine Russo is starting to worry. Louisa Lejeune, Julie’s mother, must arrive in a few minutes and the children are still not back. She goes around the neighborhood, does not see any of the two little girls.

Julie’s mother rings the door and faces Carine Russo’s disarray. just 30 years ago, julie Together, they go in search of Julie and Mélissa. The minutes pass, the concern climbs. It is time to prevent the gendarmerie. The hours pass, night falls and still no trace of children. The nightmare begins for both families. Moreover, The next day, the population wakes up with the disturbing news: two 8 -year -old children disappeared. Belgium is then far from imagining horror. It will take 14 months to put a name on it, that of Marc Dutroux. It was at home, in Sars-la-Buissière that on August 17, 1996, the bodies of Julie and Mélissa were found.

Thirty years after the disappearance of their daughter. Carine and Gino Russo, Louisa and Jean-Denis Lejeune still do not know what has happened exactly. Who removed Julie and Mélissa that day? How long have they stayed alive after their disappearance? Are they died of hunger, abandoned in their cache by just 30 years ago, julie the ex-wife of Marc Dutroux, Michelle Martin?

Thirty years they have been waiting for answers.

Thirty years that children no longer play outside as before.