Beer could cost Dutroux accomplice parole

Former Marc Dutroux accomplice Michel Lelièvre could see his parole plans scuppered by a beer he drank, De Morgen and Het Laatste Nieuws report today. Press photographs show that, on Monday, on the first of five ‘day releases’ granted to him by a court in June, Lelièvre had a beer - his first in seventeen years - in the company of his supervising officer, when one of the strict conditions attached to these day releases is to abstain from alcohol. Nathalie Buisseret, his lawyer, fears the worst. "I think the supervising officer did not take [the alcohol ban] into account," she told to De Morgen. On September 16, the parole board will evaluate the Lelièvre’s behaviour during his day releases. "We have always said that Lelièvre was not able to comply with the rules," said Jean Lambrecks, father of Eefje, one of Dutroux’s victims. "We now have the proof."