The court trying Marc Dutroux, Belgium's most reviled criminal, today visited the dungeon where his young rape victims lived and died.
Two survivors joined jury members, judges, lawyers and plaintiffs in the house nearly eight years after their rescue by police in a case that has shocked the country.
One of them, Sabine Dardenne, spent a minute alone in the tiny, damp dungeon built out of a cistern in the basement where she was locked up for nearly three months when she was not being raped by Dutroux .
As she came out of the brown-brick house in this derelict suburb of the southern city of Charleroi, Dardenne sought out Dutroux and yelled "Bastard!" with tears in her eyes.
Her tormentor, who kidnapped her at the age of 12 while she was riding her bike to school on May 28, 1996, stared at the ground with cuffed hands and bulletproof vest.
Laetitia Delhez, 22, Dutroux 's last victim who shared the cell with Dardenne for about a week before their rescue, burst into tears as she left the house.
The trial, begun on March 1, has mesmerised Belgians with its lurid details and conspiracy theories. Dutroux , 47, stands accused of kidnapping and raping six girls and killing four of them.
He admits to some crimes but blames the three other suspects including his ex-wife Michelle Martin for the murders. He also insists he was a lowly collaborator in a vast yet mysterious paedophile ring whose existence is unproven.