The Dutroux Scandal. BBC's Olenka Frenkiel investigates.

Part 1: transcription at 9.00 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKc6-TqBfk4

Regina Louf was one of the first to come forward. She said that as a child she had been
abused for many years in a paedophile network involving Nihoul and Dutroux.
‘I remember Michel Nihoul as a very cruel man, he abused children in a very sadistic way…..’
She says that at the age of twelve she was taken with other children to sex parties and she
told investigators that Dutroux was there, working for Nihoul. ‘Dutroux was a boy, who
brought drugs, cocaine….to these parties, who brought some girls, watched girls…….Nihoul,
he was a sort of party beast, Dutroux was more on the side.……’
……………. Nihoul she said was one of those who organised the parties, and invited the cream
of Belgium society, judges, politicians and influential businessmen, in order to compromise
them…‘It was big business and it was very well organised too, there’s a lot of money going
on there, and a lot of blackmail also, they had a lot of parties, they filmed it, so yes, yes, it
exists, I know it sounds crazy, and I know that there is a big taboo on everything like that,
but it exists.’ Regina Louf’s story was horrific but her account of a violent paedophile
underworld was by now re-inforced by new witnesses some of whom also named influential
people.

Part 2: transcription at 03.10 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrLa75cs7rs

But Jean Michel Nihoul, the man suspect of hiring Dutroux to kidnap children, was released
from jail after just 5 months. It’s still unclear if he will ever come to trial and some members
of the commission remain convinced he is protected……