The release of the book (Why liberate Dutroux? For a criminal humanism)
of one of Marc Dutroux's lawyers, Bruno Dayez
has created a general awareness of the future of convicted sex offenders.

Marc Dutroux was found guilty in March 2004 of being the leader of a criminal conspiracy involved in child abduction and a member of an association guilty of kidnapping, murder, kidnapping and raping several young girls. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and sentenced to ten years in government (a sentence allowing the government to keep him in prison on parole). Life sentence prisoners in Belgium are theoretically eligible for parole after 15 years of imprisonment. Marc Dutroux is still serving his sentence in Nivelles Prison, he has been conditionally released since 2013. Until the last reform, only the Minister of Justice could decide to activate the provision of an inmate and thus to keep him in prison. prison after his sentence, between 5 years and 15 years. Since 2007 it is the courts of enforcement of penalties that decide. This would allow them to prolong detention in serious cases The procedure for making Dutroux available has therefore not yet been activated since he has not yet completed his main sentence. If no conditional release is granted to Dutroux, he should finish his main sentence. in March 2026. What to think? If we look at the laws in force in our country, it is clear that if he is not granted parole he should not be worried about seeing him leave prison before 2026 and which sentencing court would grant him this advantage? Moreover even if we were close to the end of his sentence, there would still be the procedure of provision mentioned above.