He was from the start of the case, the council of Laetitia Delhez, one of the two victims, with Sabine Dardenne, survivor of the cache of Marc Dutroux. Later, Me Beauthier will also represent Jean-Denis Lejeune, Julie’s dad. In 1996, on the occasion of the white march organized in Brussels, he underlines “the dignity” of the victims. “” Look at the speech that parents are holding today. It is not a hate speech, it’s a speech we want to change, we want obviously, it does not happen anymore “, He says, opposing this dignity and that of the many demonstrators to the attitude of justice at that time.” When you imagine that the investigating judge forced the parents, did not want to receive them and that there was such a drama. Toe, morgue, it’s the words that come back to me at that time “He added in an interview with RTBF.
There are not the public positions of Georges-Henri Beauthier in this file. “”When we were the lawyer for a victim of Dutroux, you do not imagine after defending a pedophile. I feel more comfortable as a lawyer for victims “, He will confide in an interview at the last hour in 2023.
When Michelle Martin’s conditional release began to be topical, Me Beauthier had also asked for the right for victims to obtain full access to the file and to be able to give their point of view. “” If she has a good program of resocialization, of reintegration, if she means the truth, why not? We are not prosecutors. Let’s stay in our role. We are victims. We have the right to know what happened. We are victims. We have the right to be compensated. Point to the line. On these two points, we are far from the account “He said.
