Dutroux. The truth is in the salt
(B2) A handcuff key in a pot of salt is the latest find from the Arlon prison guards guarding Mr. Dutroux. Of course, the interested party immediately denied that it belonged to him. Lack of pot! The key was in a packet of salt in a cupboard, containing the products of Mr. Dutroux. This cupboard was closed with a padlock. The prisoner, traditionally, asking the guards for the key when he wants to "canteen". An investigation is underway to determine how long the key was in this packet of salt and who may have placed it. According to initial findings, the key does not match the handcuffs used for Dutroux and has corrosion marks. She is not "of a recent type“, confirms John Van Acker, of the management of penitentiary establishments. A model used in the 80s and 90s and which “was no longer in use when Marc Dutroux was imprisoned in the prison of Arlon”. itself seems old since its expiry date indicates 2001. "That does not mean that this key works or not", he adds. What a specialist confirmed to us "no handcuff in the world resists a gifted handyman.
The fourth incident of its kind
This is the fourth such incident since the start of the trial. On the first day of the trial, the prison van drives off, the rear door not closed properly. Without too much consequence, in fact, because this door does not lead directly to the place where the prisoners are placed. Worse ! Last Tuesday, the side door of this same van, through which prisoners enter and exit, had to be repaired, in extremis, revealed yesterday the daily La Libre Belgique. Because it closed badly... Finally, a prison guard has just been suspended from his duties. He is suspected of having played the little reporter by taking pictures, with more or less the consent of Dutroux and/or his lawyers, of the prisoner in his everyday life and his cell, to then sell them in Paris- Match at a substantial price. Several tens of thousands of euros would have been paid by the weekly.
Dutroux's security measures.
On the side of the prison administration, there is a tendency to relativize these incidents. "We are far from the account of Dutroux in nature" explains one of its managers. And to detail the measures taken by both the prison and the police responsible for the support. " Every day, before joining the van, the prisoner goes through an airlock, in prisoner's clothes. He has a strict body search. His civilian clothes are also scrupulously searched. He enters the police van handcuffed. Where he always has, in front of him, at least two guards. Arriving at the courthouse, the van enters a security lock. It is only after checking that the airlock was closed that the doors of the van are opened. He was taken, still handcuffed, to a holding cell and then to the cubicle. He always has at least two to four guards around him. And not just any. Federal Police professionals specially trained to escort dangerous people."
Nicolas Gros Verheyde
(published in France-Soir, March 2004)
