Word: arlon
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...CONVICTED. MARC DUTROUX, 47, Belgian pedophile; of abduction, rape and murder, after an eight-year investigation that sparked public outrage and prompted sweeping law-enforcement reforms, by a 12-member jury; in Arlon, Belgium. Paroled after serving time for rape in the '80s, Dutroux was found guilty of imprisoning six young girls in an underground chamber, murdering two of them and killing an accomplice. Dutroux, who faces life in prison, claimed to be the scapegoat for a pedophile ring with ties to the rich and powerful but failed to convince the jury...
...charges. In a separate case, Germany 's Constitutional Court overturned parts of a law giving police powers to conduct electronic surveillance of private homes. - By William Boston House of Horrors BELGIUM At the opening of Belgium's "trial of the century" in Arlon, alleged child-killer Marc Dutroux admitted kidnapping four of the six girls held prisoner at his house and sexually abusing three of them, but denied murder. Dutroux variously blamed three accomplices and his estranged wife for the deaths of four of the girls, including two aged eight, whose remains were found buried in the gardens...