Editing Marc Dutroux (section)

=== Michel Nihoul ===
[[Michel Nihoul]] was a businessman known to frequently attend sex parties. He was accused of being the brains behind the child kidnapping and abuse operation around Dutroux.<ref name="guardian" /> Nihoul's lawyer in the case, Frederic Clement de Clety, denied all charges made against Nihoul by Dutroux and called him a "liar and manipulator."<ref name="guardiandungeondeath" /> When the investigative journalist Olenka Frenkiel met Nihoul in Brussels, he reportedly greeted her with the words "I am the monster of Belgium." He told her that he was certain that he would never be prosecuted. During the encounter, he grabbed her, tickled her and pulled her onto him so that she called for her colleagues to help her get away from him. Frenkiel was working on a documentary on the case for the BBC.<ref name="guardian" /> In 2004, at the end of the Dutroux case trial, he was released of all charges of child abduction.<ref>{{cite news |title=Procès Dutroux-bis: Michel Nihoul inculpé, non lieu en vue |url=https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/proces-dutroux-bis-michel-nihoul-inculpe-non-lieu-en-vue-51b8bbdce4b0de6db9bb5234 |access-date=9 April 2020 |agency=Belga |publisher=La libre Belgique |date=3 May 2010 |archive-date=29 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129101219/https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/proces-dutroux-bis-michel-nihoul-inculpe-non-lieu-en-vue-51b8bbdce4b0de6db9bb5234 |url-status=live }}</ref> In May 2010, the Belgian prosecutor's office dropped all charges against Nihoul relating to participation in a paedophile ring in the absence of any tangible evidence.<ref>{{cite news |title=Non-lieu total pour Michel Nihoul |url=https://www.7sur7.be/belgique/non-lieu-total-pour-michel-nihoul~a00ba434/ |access-date=9 April 2020 |publisher=7 sur 7 |date=20 May 2010 |archive-date=21 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421220059/https://www.7sur7.be/belgique/non-lieu-total-pour-michel-nihoul~a00ba434/ |url-status=live }}</ref>