Editing Marc Dutroux (section)

=== Granting Dutroux state assistance, sleeping pills and sedatives ===
While in jail, Dutroux managed to convince a health professional that he was disabled due to mental illnesses. That way, he was able to collect public assistance consisting of $1,200 a month from the Belgian government. He also convinced the professionals that he needed sedatives for sleeping problems. Dutroux later went on to use them to sedate his victims.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Moulaert |first=Frank |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7umgCOBEMgEC&q=Charleroi+high+unemployment+1990s%7Ctitle%3DGlobalization&pg=PA86 |title=Globalization and Integrated Area Development in European Cities |date=2000-10-26 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-158946-1 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/5072276/Charleroi-the-most-depressing-city-in-Europe-becomes-more-depressing-by-the-day.html| date= 29 March 2009| title= Charleroi: the most depressing city in Europe becomes more depressing by the day| newspaper= The Telegraph| access-date= 20 July 2016| archive-date= 27 July 2016| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160727225208/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/5072276/Charleroi-the-most-depressing-city-in-Europe-becomes-more-depressing-by-the-day.html| url-status= live}}</ref> He owned seven small houses, most of them vacant, and used three of them for the torture of the girls he kidnapped. Although he owned several houses, his state assistance stipend was not reduced. In his residence in [[Marcinelle]], he constructed a concealed dungeon in the basement. Dutroux has been described by [[psychiatrist]]s who examined him for trial as a [[psychopath]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040618/asp/foreign/story_3385982.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040703185508/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040618/asp/foreign/story_3385982.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 July 2004|title=Evil Belgian found guilty|date=17 June 2002|work=[[The Telegraph India]]|location=Calcutta|access-date=13 August 2015}}</ref><ref name="washingtonpost">{{cite news |last1=Trueheart |first1=Charles |title=SORDID TIMES IN DEAR BELGIUM' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/09/24/sordid-times-in-dear-belgium/0f654725-8731-4fc1-8ddd-29b74cf73b92/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170414211245/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/09/24/sordid-times-in-dear-belgium/0f654725-8731-4fc1-8ddd-29b74cf73b92/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 April 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref>