Dutroux claims mafia killed girls, not him

Serial killer Marc Dutroux has sent a sick letter to the Flemish weekly Dag Allemaal, in which he claims that eight-year-old girls Julie and Melissa were killed not by him but by the mafia. Dutroux had planned to write a letter to Julie’s father, Jean-Denis Lejeune, and auction the manuscript of the letter to the highest-bidding media. Dag Allemaal immediately declined, prompting Dutroux to send them a ‘free’ but insulting letter. In it, Dutroux states that he has “never been to Grâce-Hollogne”, where the young girls were kidnapped, adding “I never killed anyone, yet I was sent down”. According to Dutroux, the truth can be found in the notes from the hearing of a former police informant. He claims the murders were a settling of scores involving former AC Milan footballer Roberto Baggio and, most sickeningly, Melissa’s father, Gino Russo. He then owns up to the murder of his former accomplice Bernard Weinstein, but denies hurting An and Eefje, the two teenage girls he buried alive. Finally, he sounds bitter about the release of his ex-wife and accomplice Michelle Martin, saying “a cloister is certainly not a great place to live, but anyone who puts it on a par with prison has clearly never been to prison.”