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category: "Belgium Scandals"
tags:
- Victim
- Dutroux-Network
- Child-Abduction
- Person
- Belgium
- 1990s
- Dutroux
summary: "Julie Lejeune, an eight-year-old girl from Charleroi, Belgium, disappeared on July 9, 1995, alongside her friend Melissa Russo while riding bicycles near their neighborhood."
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Julie Lejeune, an eight-year-old girl from Charleroi, [[Belgium]], disappeared on July 9, 1995, alongside her friend [[Melissa Russo]] while riding bicycles near their neighborhood. The abduction occurred in broad daylight, with the girls lured into a white van driven by [[Marc Dutroux]] and his accomplice [[Michel Lelievre]], who had been scouting potential victims under instructions from [[Michel Nihoul]]. Lejeune and Russo were immediately imprisoned in a hidden basement dungeon at Dutroux's residence in [[Marcinelle, Belgium]], a concealed cell constructed in 1993 with assistance from handyman [[Claude Thirault]], who later reported Dutroux's explicit plans to kidnap girls for profit. The dungeon featured soundproof walls, a rudimentary ventilation system, and a locked access point disguised as shelving, designed specifically to hold young victims for extended periods. Surveillance by police inspector [[Rene Michaux]]'s [[Operation Othello]] team began on August 10, 1995, but failed to detect the girls despite their presence in the house. On August 22, 1995, Dutroux kidnapped two more teenagers, [[An Marchal]] and [[Eefje Lambrecks]], temporarily housing them upstairs due to the occupied basement, before murdering them elsewhere; police monitoring overlooked these activities entirely.[^1]
Julie Lejeune, an eight-year-old girl from Charleroi, [[Belgium]], disappeared on July 9, 1995, alongside her friend [[Melissa Russo]] while riding bicycles near their neighborhood. The abduction occurred in broad daylight, with the girls lured into a white van driven by [[Marc Dutroux]] and his accomplice [[Michel Lelievre]], who had been scouting potential victims under instructions from [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]]. Lejeune and Russo were immediately imprisoned in a hidden basement dungeon at Dutroux's residence in [[Marcinelle, Belgium]], a concealed cell constructed in 1993 with assistance from handyman [[Claude Thirault]], who later reported Dutroux's explicit plans to kidnap girls for profit. The dungeon featured soundproof walls, a rudimentary ventilation system, and a locked access point disguised as shelving, designed specifically to hold young victims for extended periods. Surveillance by police inspector [[Rene Michaux]]'s [[Operation Othello]] team began on August 10, 1995, but failed to detect the girls despite their presence in the house. On August 22, 1995, Dutroux kidnapped two more teenagers, [[An Marchal]] and [[Eefje Lambrecks]], temporarily housing them upstairs due to the occupied basement, before murdering them elsewhere; police monitoring overlooked these activities entirely.[^1]
### Abduction and Imprisonment