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The Belgian courts accept the request of Marc Dutroux's lawyers and order a new psychiatric report. Three doctors will have to assess the risk of recidivism, the danger of Marc Dutroux as well as "the danger to the physical and psychological integrity of others" if he were released one day. The lawyers see this as a step towards a future application for conditional release for the serial killer who remains the man the Belgians do not want to see out of prison.
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The five judges of the Sentence Enforcement Court appointed a team of recognized psychiatrists for psychopathy, sexual deviance and delinquency.
The judges found this new psychiatric report justified, 23 years after the imprisonment of Marc Dutroux in 1996; they were thus in the sense of the lawyers for whom the dangerousness of the serial killer had to be reexamined, because the last psychiatric assessment dates from his trial in 2004.
Even if the three psychiatrists declared it completely harmless, the goal of the lawyers to file a request for parole in 2 years seems very illusory, but they hope an improvement of its conditions of detention.
His conviction gives the last word to the federal government and he will not take the risk of alienating the opinion by accepting the release of the most hated prisoner in Belgium. Marc Dutroux still does not recognize the abduction of two of his victims, Julie and Melissa, found dead.