Carine Russo
Born
Carine Collet

(1962-05-01) 1 May 1962
Liège, Belgium
Occupation(s)Politician
Author
Political partyEcolo
Spouse
Gino Russo
​
(m. 1982)​
[1]
ChildrenMélissa (deceased)

Carine Russo (née Collet;[2] born 1 May 1962)[1][3] is a Belgian politician, member of Ecolo, and author. She was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007.[4]

Her daughter, Mélissa, was one of six girls and women abducted by Marc Dutroux between 1995 and 1996.[1] On 24 June 1995, 8-year-old Mélissa and her friend, Julie Lejeune, also 8 years old, were abducted from Grâce-Hollogne[5] and imprisoned in a dungeon beneath Dutroux's house 93.4 km (58.0 mi) away in Marcinelle, Charleroi,[6] where they eventually starved to death while Dutroux was serving time in prison for theft.[6] On 17 August 1996, Dutroux led police to the location where the bodies of the girls, along with that of his accomplice Bernard Weinstein, whom he admitted killing, were buried in the backyard of another of his homes in Sars-la-Buissière.[5][7] On 17 August 2016, exactly twenty years after the exhumation of Mélissa and Lejeune's bodies, Carine Russo published a book, Quatorze mois (English: Fourteen months), in which she included letters she had written to her daughter during the fourteen months she was missing.[8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Despic-Popovic, Hélène (30 May 2007). "L'autre côté de la mère". Libération (in French). Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "De advocaten". De Standaard (in Flemish). Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "Carine Russo". www.senate.be. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Belgische Senaat" (in Dutch). Belgian Senate. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
  5. 1 2 "Timeline: Dutroux paedophile case". BBC News. 17 June 2004. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  6. 1 2 Black, Ian (28 February 2004). "Eight years on, Dutroux appears in court - but will the truth be heard?". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  7. ↑ Ryback, Timothy (15 March 1997). "Crying out loud". The Independent. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  8. ↑ lameuse.be. "Quatorze mois: le livre de Carine Russo dévoile les mots d'une maman à sa fille disparue". lameuse (in French). Retrieved 20 September 2017.


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