A massive scandal has been unfolding in the Belgian military. Bizarre ritual hazing, rape accusations, neo-nazi officers, weapons and drugs sold to the Albanese and the Chechen mafia, ... 🔽
Was Marc Dutroux a pawn for a child trafficking network in which Belgian GLADIO was involved, or even possibly running? Traces of this network can be found post WWII up until 1996 and Dutroux's arrest.
Everytime I go back to reading about the Order of the Solar Temple (OTS), I find new things that make me think there's gotta be something larger behind it all, not just a cult gone wild
It all started March 14th, when Defense Minister of Belgium Ludivine Dedonder announced a "surprise" press conference, dealing with grave matters. "A platoon (~30 people) of the 4th engineering battalion was disbanded in order to send a strong signal”
It seemed that this particular unit had been instating a rule of terror at the military base they were stationed at, the Adjudant Brasseur Camp in Amay. The Minister first received a private email from the dad of one of the impacted soldiers in November of 2023.
Here's the first still from MALDOROR, a movie based on the Dutroux affair that's releasing in 2024, and is directed by Fabrice Du Welz. Here's the synopsis :
If that wasn't enough, there's also talks about racism inside the base, ammo being wasted during these hazing "games", being forced to drink out of an human skull, and the drugs and the weapons trafficking. There is an ongoing investigation regarding the same platoon.
According to the victims and their families, it's much worse than that. One dad claims his son was raped. He was striped naked and then a superior officer inserted a broom handle in his ass. Most of the newcomers were crying, and then the superiors took turns pissing on him.
"It is a serious and unique decision in the recent history of Belgian Defense, but a red line has been crossed by some", said Michel Hofman, Belgium's Chief of Defence, of the disbanding. What exactly happened here? Is it just hazing gone wrong? Beware, graphic content
For the past week, this has been coming out in belgian and french speaking press : Marc Dutroux is currently "investigating" cold cases in Belgium that he claims he can link to the alleged network he was a part of, according to his lawyer Bruno Dayez, who has read what he wrote
The same young man who was violated with the broom handle was also made to lick up the feces in the shower. Pure torture, said the family. Pictures and videos of these "games" were found at some of the officers home, on their phone, which lead to disbanding of the platoon.
There's a constant pressure to drink alcohol to be included, as well as paying for your superior's drinks. "Soldiers being neo-nazis, this is reality. We musn't deceive ourselves. Let's stop turning a blind eye." said an anonymous veteran.
This culture inside the Belgian military seems to have been around for a few years, probably decades - or even since it's inception. What's new is that there are leaks of these stories to the media and some of these officers are finally facing repercussions.
Some of the soldiers and officers would have sold and/or exchanged weed and cocaine to various mafia elements, mostly Albanese and Chechen. As well as weapon parts. Not much more info on that, news just came out today.
Women aren't exempt : some were dragged outside of their barracks at night to be watered with a high pressure hose. Their underwear were searched and then exposed in the yard. Another time, a superior officer took a shit in the women's showers and had them clean it. It gets worse
After word has gotten out about the horrendous events at Amay, some anonymous soldiers took to the media to describe their own experiences, across different military bases in Belgium : "People urinated in my sleeping bag and in my tent, so I had to sleep on the floor. I was hit."
"Both of my hands were tied to an iron bar for three days. Others came to help me go to the toilet. My equipment was stolen from me when I wasn't in my room, someone broke my wardrobe to get to it. I had to pay for it again. And all those days when we were forbidden to sleep."
Rust Cohle-maxxing this winter break. Starting notes on this month’s fourth Dutroux related book. Mapping out his adresses inside a street atlas. Reading about his crazy family, including his grandmother who had 40 cats inside her own house at some point.
Dutroux was filmed by an inmate in jail (probably in summer/fall 2022 judging by Dutroux’s clothes), and it was uploaded on TikTok recently. Other inmates are heard insulting him and various objects are thrown at him.
Here we go. The BRABANT KILLERS investigation is officially closed. 40 years of investigation and nothing to show for it. 28 deaths with no official answer to who and why did this. Biggest judiciary failure in Belgium's history
The ambassador of Israel in Belgium reacted to a newspaper article, sharing a tweet comparing Palestinian children to Marc Dutroux, saying he was “someone’s child too”, and that you “can’t compare him to his victims”. She deleted it. If she had any semblance of shame she’d resign
I understood my previous tweet caused some reactions.
As I did not mean in any way to disrespect the victims of Dutroux, I will delete it . But the point stands, here is the corrected version:
Salah Abdeslam is also someone’s child. Some people’s children commit horrible
News regarding the Brabant killers case : the investigators are working on identifying 19 fingerprints that could reveal the identity of the culprits (Thread/Translation of an article from Gazet van Antwerpen)
For those of you who’ve heard Matt talk about it on the Belgian X-Files series, I finally have gotten my hands on a copy of Belgian Autumn. It should arrive in a few weeks.
Today marks the 39th anniversary of the "Champignonnière (mushroom farm) crime", where 16 year old Christine Van Hees was killed and burned. The murder took place in the basement of an old abandoned house near a mushroom farm in Auderghem, in the Brussels area, Belgium.
38 years ago, on November 9th, the Brabant Killers attacked the Delhaize supermarket in Alost. It’s the bloodiest attack throughout the two waves of action. Today an octogonal memorial monument (symbolizing the 8 victims) was unveiled on the Alost Delhaize parking lot
Belgian media promoting a true crime podcast about Dutroux coming out next Tuesday. There’s supposed to be “revelations” too. Not expecting anything at all but it’ll be interesting to see what’s the angle. The Russo parents have been involved and have heard the first episodes
L'ex-femme et complice du tueur et pédophile belge Marc Dutroux, Michelle Martin, sera totalement libre à la fin de la semaine au terme de sa libération conditionnelle, a-t-on appris mercredi de source proche du dossier
#AFP
Thank you everyone for the overwhelming response on that thread lol appreciate every follower, like, and retweet. I'm no expert but there's a definite lack of English speaking informations about Dutroux and the Brabant Killings, so I figured I'd try and resolve that
Catching up on 1985. In the 5th episode, two characters are talking about what the Brabant Killings could be about. "It's the strategy of tension, a CIA technique" says Gendarmerie Major Vernaillen. "Who"s behind it?" "Maybe Gladio."
(Impromptu thread)
I've read and watched so much shit about the Dutroux case that I sometimes forget how easy to understand it honestly appears as soon as you have the essential events and people in mind
This morning, Belgian police and Civil Protection divers were searching the Damme Canal for a Uzi gun related to the Brabant Killings, according to an informant's tip. It could have been stolen from the Gendarmerie units during the attack on the Colruyt supermarket in Nivelles
This thread is going to try and explain that, indeed, Dutroux seemed to be working for an organization akin to GLADIO. The principal investigation into the crimes of Dutroux is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of child abuse and trafficking networks in Belgium.
89 - The Belgian X-Files 12: Dutroux Affair i - The Lost Girls (1956 - 1995)
@irc_nic
guides us through the life story of Marc Dutroux.
"The Kludde" read by Michael S. Judge (
@corpseinorbit
) of Death is Just Around the Corner with our immense thanks.
92 - THE BELGIAN X-FILES 15 - Dutroux iv: Casework
We return from our summer break to discuss August - September of 96 and how Belgium reacted to the arrest of Dutroux and his gang
Could Julie and Mélissa have been saved ? The case that started the Dutroux affair back in June 95 lasted for 14 months before the discovery of the bodies in Aug 96. Their parents have always believed that the police didn’t do what was necessary to get them back home alive.
⚠️ Robert Beijer, Belgian ex-Gendarme, was just arrested by the police and is having his home in Pattaya, Thailand (where he had moved to) searched by Belgian investigators regarding the Brabant Killers case where he’s a suspect
BREAKING: The New York Times reports that Hamas has, in its tunnels, 'hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel for vehicles and rockets; caches of ammunition, explosives and materials to make more; and stockpiles of food, water and medicine'.
87 - THE BELGIAN X-FILES 10: Brabant Killers Redux - Aftermath iii
@IRC_NIC
and I tie off the Brabant Killers miniseries and set up the final run of X-Files episodes. We are now in the dark heart of Belgium. Our mission up river continues 👇
Most of you are familiar with this notion, but what's referred to as the Dutroux affair reaches far more people and documented cases of abuse than the 6 kidnappings and the 4 murders he's been accused of personally and held responsible for.
Excerpt of a recent interview with ex Belgian Gendarmerie Major Vernaillen
"Herman Vernaillen hands us a document that he made himself : a colorful tree structure, in which he makes innumerable links between criminal cases from the 1980s. [...] Connections were everywhere."
Roger Boas was also named in a call-girl scandal where contracts to build hospitals in Saudi Arabia were gained by using a call-girl network. That is a whole different case that I'll get to explaining on here (one day lol) as it ties in with Brabant killers/Dutroux suspects
Kinda surreal to see the Brabant Killings back in the news cycle. After yesterday’s news, the RTBF released their 8 episodes podcast on the case, produced by Matt Graves (who did Le Monstre a few months ago). Decent recalling of the events but no GLADIO, and some bogus theories.
whole thing is done, I think this is the longest thread I’ve done lol. let me know what you think and if I fucked up somewhere. hopefully it answered the question asked in the first tweet
Was Marc Dutroux a pawn for a child trafficking network in which Belgian GLADIO was involved, or even possibly running? Traces of this network can be found post WWII up until 1996 and Dutroux's arrest.
Here’s what David Van de Steen, victim of the Brabant Killers at 8, got to say about this :
“Press release!
Here’s why I’m not present today at the meeting of the public prosecutor's office about the Brabant Killers investigation. […]
Here we go. The BRABANT KILLERS investigation is officially closed. 40 years of investigation and nothing to show for it. 28 deaths with no official answer to who and why did this. Biggest judiciary failure in Belgium's history
If you wanna learn more about how deep this rabbit hole goes, check out
@GhostStoriesEnd
current ongoing Belgium series. From its inception to the Cold War and to these current events, there seems to be something dark and rotten at the heart of this small country
A massive scandal has been unfolding in the Belgian military. Bizarre ritual hazing, rape accusations, neo-nazi officers, weapons and drugs sold to the Albanese and the Chechen mafia, ... 🔽
You might have heard of the Belgian TV show based on the Brabant Killings, named "1985". It premiered a few months ago and a release/broadcast date on Belgian TV (RTBF/VRT) has been announced : January 23. There'll be eight 50 minutes episodes.
To sum it up quickly : Dutroux is arrested in August '96. He's accused of kidnapping and raping 6 girls, 4 of them which are now dead and buried. His wife, Michelle Martin, his accomplice Michel Lelièvre, and a few days later his other accomplice Michel Nihoul are also arrested.
ASCO used to be an arms manufacturer and has since switched to aeronautics, landing contracts with Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed. ASCO belonged to the Boas family. Their chairman was Roger Boas, a very dear friend of Paul Vanden Boyenants, former PSC/CEPIC prime minister of Belgium
Luc Jouret was also at the heart of Parti Communautaire Européen, a nazi maoist party, founded by Jean-François Thiriart. Thiriart was also the founder of Jeune Europe, an European neo-nazi movement.
@p2chillPodcast
has a really great episode about this :
Here is the weapon found in the Damme canal in Belgium by Dutch magnet fishers on January 7. The amateur fishers actually found two guns there, including an Uzi! They heard about the police search in November of 2022 and they showed up after to see if they could find anything.
During the investigation into X1's claims, she gave directions to the police to places where she was abused, and they used to go on site to see if it was accurate, or what she could remember from being there. One time, she mentioned a "factory" where snuff movies were made.
I hit thread limit with this tweet so I'm gonna send it out, take a break and then go on and continue right under this tweet. This is gonna be an extra long thread I think so buckle in lol
Luc Jouret was a PIO (short for Belgian Stay-behind front Public Information Office, led by Major Bougerol) asset that was made to report on cult/esoteric/occult group activites, presumably starting in the 70s, as reported in a Belgian parliamentary inquiry onto cults in 1996
I’ve been trying to do an inventory of some kind - just own many houses did this guy own for real ? I always thought it was somewhat closer to 5 than 10. Bzzzt. Wrong. Think a dozen. Don’t get me started on garages and cars. Trucks, motorcycles, small cranes, …
Those are powerful people but why does it matter so much? Well, you see, Vanden Boyenants was a major reactionary figure in cold war Belgium, and many of the groups he's affiliated with helped the strategy of tension through attacks like the Brabant killers
Now we have visual confirmation of my news story of foreign mercenaries fighting alongside the IDF in Gaza. A Ukrainian Mercenary writes in Ukrainian to his mother that he is in Gaza.
Companies from Belgium and Italy are providing most of the mercenaries. -1/n
It was a secret snuff movie studio near Zaventem. Once, on a drive, she led the investigators there, pointing out the exact place among multiple factories in the industrial park. The factory belonged to ASCO Industries. But who did ASCO belong to?
The Courcelles gang is only one part of Dutroux's claims evoked in the press. The second one includes the... Brabant killers. They don't get into the detail of how, but he's linking them to that same spook network.
82 - The Belgian X-Files 5: The Pinon Affair
It's the start of the Belgian Autumn.
@IRC_NIC
joins me to talk spies, vice rings, call girls, financial crimes, dirty cops, filthy royalty, and a divorce that threatens to rock Belgium to its core.
These anonymous witnesses will be called the "X" witnesses, each one of them given a number (X1, X2, ...) and the investigation file on them will be referred to as the X files. X1, who's name is Regina Louf, is the X witness who's very credible declarations will shake Belgium.
81 - THE BELGIAN X-FILES 4: CHAOS, FASCISM AND SOLAR TEMPLES
@IRC_NIC
joins me on this journey into the Euronoir heart of darkness. We light cigarettes and gaze at the vortex descending. The charnel house is before us and the Belgian Autumn looms.
Okay. I finally decided to get to work on writing an in depth look at Michel Nihoul’s life and the pedo network he ran with Dutroux. After an all nighter, I’m somewhere around the early 70s. He’s born in 1941. The Dutroux affair takes place in 1995-96. This is gonna be long
This made me remember the mass horse mutilation case that took place in France in early 2020. More than 30 horses and donkeys killed and found missing an ear, usually the right one. Ended after a few months and no culprits were ever found.
In what could be a plot from an episode of “The X-Files,” the authorities are investigating the mysterious deaths in three Texas counties of six cattle that were found with their tongues missing.
Regina Louf's claims include being groomed for prostitution and abuse (by local Belgian high profiles), by her own grandmother. She was "given" to her by her parents, and setup with a pimp, from as early as she can remember. I'll spare the gruesome details.
There are a LOT of details I'm passing out on here, but this is not the focus of this thread. Instead let's focus on the phone line set up right after the arrest of Dutroux. The goal was for this to serve as a call for witnesses, if there were any victims willing to speak up.
The latest political scandal in Belgium involves the water distribution company Société Wallonne de Distribution des Eaux and the NATO/SHAPE/American Air Force base in Chièvres : Wallonia's water supplies were contaminated with perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
"During that era, in Belgium, the Brabant killings were intertwined with drug trafficking, arms trafficking… but also with the enigmatic affair of the “pink ballets” (aka Dossier Pinon), which involves high-level officials participating in orgies, where minors were involved."
Some news regarding the Brabant Killers :
“Relatives of the victims of the Brabant killings received a letter from the federal prosecutor's office inviting them to Brussels on June 28. Their lawyers deduce that the investigation could be closed soon, after 38 years.”
So, for context, l'Ordre du Temple Solaire/OTS or the Order of the Solar Temple/OST in English was founded in 1984 by Luc Jouret (Belgian) and Joseph Di Mambro (French). It is famous for a number of mass suicides/murders of its members and leaders that happened in the late 90s
We'll talk about CEPIC later. To get back to Louf, she can recount seeing Nihoul multiple times in her childhood but one story in particular stands out. Basically, X1 described an unsolved murder case to be the quasi-ritualistic killing of another child, Christine Van Hees
I just watched To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), and the whole movie I kept telling myself “Wow, this is just like the François Affair in Belgium!” (but with counterfeit money instead of drugs)
There are a lot of awful stories recalled by Regina but the reason she called in the first place was because of Nihoul. She remembered that face. She had seen it before and was certain he had abused her, multiple times, at various parties and orgies she was brought to.
Today marks the 39th anniversary of the "Champignonnière (mushroom farm) crime", where 16 year old Christine Van Hees was killed and burned. The murder took place in the basement of an old abandoned house near a mushroom farm in Auderghem, in the Brussels area, Belgium.
Did you know that Marc Dutroux spent some months in a Polish jail? An anonymous Polish police spokesperson said so to the Polish Super Express newspaper, and it was reported in La Dernière Heure in Belgium, on September 6 '96, very early in the investigation.
On November 3rd 2022, Christian Smets, former Belgium's Sûreté de l'État agent, died. He was heavily involved in the Brabant Killings's investigation, being one of the agents that had infiltrated Westland New Post, and the one in charge of Baron Bonvoisin and VDB's CEPIC files