While life-sentenced pedophile killer Marc Dutroux continues to serve his sentence in prison and has had his parole requests rejected so far, his ex-wife and accomplice Michelle Martin is fully free from August 28, 2022. at midnight. This date corresponds to the end of the ten-year probationary period of his parole. This announcement revealed by AFP arouses shock and anger, in the face of the scandal of the atrocities committed by the one who was found guilty of having actively participated in the kidnappings by her ex-husband of six young girls in 1995 and 1996, four of whom died. The Free had made a striking portrait of this woman and thus revealed what became of the three children she had with the criminal.
In the early 1981s, Michelle Martin, a very discreet teacher, met Marc Dutroux at an ice rink. At the time, the man is married but that does not prevent them from starting a story. Faced with the investigators, she will say that she quickly devoted total admiration to Dutroux, marked by the absence of her father, who died tragically when she was a child: “My relationship with him contrasted enormously with what I knew alongside my mother. With him, I felt alive. (…) I knew nothing of life and even less of men. I will only know Dutroux (…) who has become my god as my father was.“
Marc Dutroux divorced Françoise Dubois and in 1984, Michelle Martin welcomed her first child with him, Frédéric. Four years later and after being imprisoned for kidnappings, kidnappings and rapes of minors under the age of 16, the couple says yes… to prison. Indeed, Dutroux is still behind bars following his first conviction. The couple have two other children – Andy and Céline – born in September 1993 and November 1995. It was in 1996 that the Dutroux affair broke out with national repercussions because it highlighted the dysfunctions of justice and the police. in Belgium.
According The Freethe two youngest are “placed in foster care; Michelle Martin met them once a month in the visiting room“The eldest, 38, who was 12 when his parents were last arrested in 1996,”seems to distance himself and live independently“. He spoke in 2010 to The last hourspecifying that he had never been abused by his father: “Go a little to Baghdad, you will see that there are much more dramatic situations than mine. We are all subject to the vagaries of our lives that make us adopt one behavior more than another. I no longer saw [ma mère] for a few years. I still have some contacts but we sometimes have trouble understanding each other. However, they both remain my parents, even if I don’t have much in common with them.“
His offspring have always been part of Michelle Martin’s line of defense. She assured not to have denounced Marc Dutroux for the future of her children and hers. His medico-psychological report at the end of the instruction stated “complete disclaimer“.