Why did it take eight years to finally open the trial case against Dutroux? When the trial took place, the new investigator took four days to disclose his version of events. The result: the seven-year investigation had shown that Dutroux was a single perpetrator, case closed.

This was the conclusion although everything indicated that behind Dutroux was an organized pedophile network.

The families of the victims were horrified and accused the investigation of having been manipulated.