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category: "Belgium Scandals"
tags:
- Person
- Victim
- Child-Trafficking
- Belgium
- 1990s
- Marc-Dutroux-Case
- Dutroux-Affair
- Dutroux
summary: "Laetitia Delhez, aged 14, disappeared from Bertrix, Belgium, on August 9, 1996, while waiting at a bus stop after visiting a local festival."
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Laetitia Delhez, aged 14, disappeared from Bertrix, Belgium, on August 9, 1996, while waiting at a bus stop after visiting a local festival. She vanished into a white van driven by [[Marc Dutroux]], with accomplice [[Michel Lelievre]] positioned nearby to assist in the abduction using chloroform to subdue her. The incident occurred amid Dutroux's ongoing operations, following the May 26 kidnapping of [[Sabine Dardenne]], with both girls held in a soundproofed basement dungeon at Dutroux's Marcinelle residence, constructed in 1993 with help from [[Claude Thirault]]. A witness observed the suspicious van circling the area twice before the seizure, noting the partial license plate PBX 688, which matched Dutroux's ASCO-registered vehicle linked to [[Michel Nihoul]]'s company. This clue prompted police action, leading to Dutroux's arrest on August 13, 1996, and the subsequent rescue of Laetitia and Sabine from the hidden cells behind disguised shelving.[^1]
Laetitia Delhez, aged 14, disappeared from Bertrix, Belgium, on August 9, 1996, while waiting at a bus stop after visiting a local festival. She vanished into a white van driven by [[Marc Dutroux]], with accomplice [[Michel Lelievre]] positioned nearby to assist in the abduction using chloroform to subdue her. The incident occurred amid Dutroux's ongoing operations, following the May 26 kidnapping of [[Sabine Dardenne]], with both girls held in a soundproofed basement dungeon at Dutroux's Marcinelle residence, constructed in 1993 with help from [[Claude Thirault]]. A witness observed the suspicious van circling the area twice before the seizure, noting the partial license plate PBX 688, which matched Dutroux's ASCO-registered vehicle linked to [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]]'s company. This clue prompted police action, leading to Dutroux's arrest on August 13, 1996, and the subsequent rescue of Laetitia and Sabine from the hidden cells behind disguised shelving.[^1]
During captivity, Laetitia endured starvation and abuse, conditioned through hypnosis and drugs to view Dutroux as a protector, resisting rescuers upon discovery and embracing him instead. The dungeon, overlooked in prior 1995 searches during Dutroux's auto theft incarceration—when screams from [[Julie Lejeune]] and [[Melissa Russo]] were ignored—featured ventilation and restraints for prolonged confinement. [[Michelle Martin]], Dutroux's wife, fed the girls minimally while he was free, confirming abductions on Nihoul's orders for client delivery. Laetitia's brief two-day hold contrasted with Sabine's months-long ordeal, both tied to video production evidenced by seized tapes of rapes and cell construction returned to Martin.[^1]