BRUSSELS - Nationwide protests continued in Belgium yesterday over the removal of the chief investigator into the Marc Dutroux paedophilia and murder case.
In Charleroi, some 500 steelworkers downed tools and demonstrated outside the city's court building. They then marched to a house in the suburbs where Dutroux allegedly hid his victims. Judge Connerotte had been seen as a "white knight" of a justice system accused of at best, negligence and, at worst, corruption in the Dutroux case.