Michelle Martin (offender)

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Michelle Martin (born January 15, 1960 in Waterloo ) is a Belgian criminal . She is the accomplice and ex-wife of the sex offender and murderer Marc Dutroux .

Life

Michelle Martin is a former teacher. You and Marc Dutroux have three children together. In 2003, Michelle Martin divorced Marc Dutroux.

While Marc Dutroux was serving a prison sentence, Michelle Martin was supposed to take care of the "care" of the two girls Julie and Melissa, who had been kidnapped and abused by Martin and Dutroux. Michelle let the girls starve to death. The reason she gave was that Julie and Melissa “seemed like wild animals” that “would attack me”: “I was so scared that I backwards down the basement stairs on all fours am ".

In 1986 Michelle Martin and Marc Dutroux were arrested for kidnapping and abusing five "young women between the ages of twelve and 19"; In 1996 the couple was arrested again. Martin was convicted of being an accomplice to her husband Marc Dutroux. She had driven the car the couple had used to “hunt children”. The defense had portrayed her in court as the willless tool of her violent husband. However, the court saw her complicity in her husband's crimes, in particular she was heavily charged with the starvation of the two girls Mélissa Russo and Julie Lejeune. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

At the end of July 2012, the Belgian judiciary decided to release Michelle Martin early after 16 years in prison for good conduct on parole and subject to conditions. The Belgian judiciary approved a rehabilitation plan that provided for Michelle Martin to be admitted to a convent of the poor sisters of St. Clare of Assisi in Malonne near Namur - without her becoming a nun herself. She is also not allowed to approach the victims' families and she has to undergo psychotherapy. The public prosecutor's office and some relatives of Dutroux victims appealed to the court of cassation against the decision. On August 28, 2012, the Court of Cassation in Brussels rejected the objections as unfounded, stating that the criminal enforcement court had not made any procedural errors. Angry relatives of the victims and their supporters protested in the courtroom. The father of one of the murdered girls, Jean-Denis Lejeune, whose then eight-year-old daughter Julie starved to death in 1996 in the cellar dungeon, spoke of the fact that "a monster to the public" and a repeat offender would be released. Michelle Martin was released the same day and found herself in the Poor Clare monastery in Malonne near Namur. Due to a lack of young people, the nuns wanted to give up the monastery by 2015 at the latest and move to Woluwe near Brussels. It was not possible for Martin to move there. This made it necessary to find new accommodation for her, otherwise one of the requirements for her release from prison at that time would no longer be met. In 2014 she was allowed to choose her place of residence, but is not allowed to leave Belgium.

Others

In Kristien Hemmerechts ' novel The Woman Who Gave the Dogs Food (early 2014), the main character, whose soul diagram is revealed in the book, clearly bears traits of Michelle Martin. Hemmerechts had already dealt literarily with the case in 2007 in the mood panorama "In the land of Dutroux". Paul Marchal, the father of a girl murdered by Dutroux, criticized the book because it hurts feelings.

literature

  • Nicole Malinconi: Vous vous appelez Michelle Martin. Denoël, Paris 2008, ISBN 2207260038 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Stolzenberger: The Marc Dutroux case: The course of the trial in March , p. 5 (PDF; 282 kB)
  2. ↑ Ex-wife becomes a key figure in the Dutroux process , in: Welt Online , March 9, 2004
  3. ↑ The Dutroux Case - Reporting on The Zero: The Zero 5.0laf - The Official Website of Andrew Vachss . In: vachss.de .
  4. ↑ Dutroux accomplice is released early. In: Spiegel Online from July 31, 2012
  5. ↑ South German: Without regrets in the monastery August 21, 2012
  6. ↑ Decided: Michelle Martin free subject to conditions. In: Belgischer Rundfunk, August 28, 2012
  7. ↑ Appeals court orders release: monastery instead of prison for Dutroux's ex-wife. tagesschau.de, August 28, 2012, archived from the original on August 30, 2012 ; Retrieved August 28, 2012 .
  8. ^ Fabienne Hurst: Dutroux accomplice is set free. In: Spiegel Online from August 28, 2012
  9. ↑ Michelle Martin: The Homeless Accomplice. www.mz-web.de, February 25, 2013
  10. ^ Moving to Tuscany: ex-wife of child killer Dutroux is looking for a new place to stay. t-online.de, January 9, 2014
  11. ↑ Michelle Marint is allowed to leave the monastery on rp-online.de on August 14, 2014
  12. ↑ Dirk Schümer : Dutroux case: The child murderer's wife becomes a heroine of the novel. www.faz.net, January 21, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Michelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian offender
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterloo , Belgium