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In 1996, Belgium is in the eye of a worldwide media-attention. Two female teenagers, Leatitia Delhez and Sabine Dardenne, are found alive
in a dungeon, made by Marc Dutroux, in the region of Charleroi. Later on, 2 very young girls- Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo – are found dead. They were abducted in the region of Liège. Two other teenagers, Ann Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks, have also been found dead, in the same region (Charleroi). A fifth victim, an adult, Bernard Weinstein, and a person out of the entourage of Marc Dutroux, is found dead.
In oktober 1996 Télémoustique publishes an article about the Dutroux-case. One of the writers of this article is Alain Gossens, a Belgian free-lance journalist.
In spring 2010 a new sexual scandal about a catholic bisshop is national news in Belgium. In Mechelen and Leuven Brussels federal police investigators organise searches (june 2010). A technical and procedural battle starts. More and more testimounies about sexual abuse within the catholic environment reach the public surface.
As we republish this (06 jan 2011), more victims stand up and speak…
In the summer of 2010, on 9 july 2010, Belgian newspaper Le Soir brings a fait-divers article about someone fallen down of a church in Watermaal-Bosvoorde (Jagersfelt). Around that time, Michel Bouffioux “will take some days off” he writes on his Facebook-page. Several internetfora make notice that the person who fell down the church was Alain Gossens, a free-lance journalist, who wrote in oktober 1996 an article about the Dutroux-case, along with 2 other journalists. Alain Gossens felt threatened, changed his modus of life. People “entered his appartment” after his dead. Gossens “used Times” (type of letters). A letter, used at his funeral, was written in “Colibri”. Alain Gossens died between 6 and 7 july, around 10.00. A witness (around the church where Gossens died) gives other information then official police-information…
