This is a partial repost from a piece I posted several months ago about the connections between the Dutroux Scandal and the board of directors at the ICMEC.
This post has a dual purpose.
- As a refresher in the investigation into Pedogate
- To give context to a new post that will follow shortly on the subject
The original post was quite lengthy, so I have removed portions for readability and in order to simplify things somewhat.
You can find the link to the original post below.
The ICMEC, the Belgian Connection and the Dutroux Scandal - Hiding in Plain Sight - Part 3
The ICMEC, the Belgian Connection and the Dutroux Scandal - Hiding in Plain Sight - Part 3
History of the ICMEC
According to their webpage, the ICMEC was created in response to the public outcry surrounding the Dutroux Scandal. An estimated 300,000 Belgian citizens took to the streets to protest the crimes and the handling of the investigation.
Disclaimer: Any accusations of guilt are completely speculative and I’m not accusing any of the members of the ICMEC board of crimes. I’m simply showing the connections that exist between the powerful and well connected who make up the board of directors.
ICMEC and the Belgian Connection
Queen Poala – Belgian Queen and wife of King Albert II (married in 1959)
- ICMEC Honorary Board of Directors
King Albert II and Queen Poala
Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer
• The first Chairman/President of ICMEC (est. 1998)
• Board of directors Missing Children Europe (est. 2001)
• Chairman of Child Focus in Belgium (est. 1998)
• Board of Directors Foundation Child (est. 1998)
European Members or Affiliate Organizations
Ernesto Caffo
– ICMEC Board of Directors, Professor of Psychiatry University of Modena, President SOS II Telefono Azzurro (Italy), President Child Foundation, board member Missing Children Europe
Missing Children Europe
http://missingchildreneurope.eu/
Missing Children Europe is an umbrella organization that incorporates dozens of child advocacy groups spanning across Europe.
Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer
One of the central personalities at the ICMEC is the Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer (Cardon). Cardon was the first president of the organization. Mr. Cardon is deeply involved in a plethora of organizations dealing with missing, abused and exploited children.
Cardon spent his entire career in the Belgian banking world and has been a long-time member of the business community. His banking career started at Bank Brussels Lambert (BBL), where he eventually became CEO. He belongs to the Brussels business association known as: Le Cercle de Lorraine.
Cardon was selected as the ICMEC’s first president (1998) and has served on the board of directors since its inception.
To receive the title of ‘Baron’ in Belgium is akin to being ‘lorded’ / ‘sired’ in the UK. It is an honor bestowed by the monarch for service and achievement. King Albert II awarded the title of “Baron” to Daniel Cardon in 1998.
As we will see, both King Albert II and Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer are named in the Dutroux Scandal and cover-up.
King Albert is identified by a witness as being present at a gathering described as a ‘hunt of children”. It's unclear if the witness was referring to King Albert I or King Albert II. The Baron however, is not named as being involved in the sexual abuse of children but he was involved in the cover-up.
This is intriguing, the wife of the King, Queen Poala, and a wealthy banker baron both emerging as champions of abused children, acquiring lead roles in the new international organization while at the same time being intimately linked to an accused in the Dutroux Scandal.
Not only that, but the Baron suddenly takes on a leading role in Belgium’s own child advocacy organization Child Focus (1998) and later with greater Europe’s equivalent; Missing Children Europe (2001). But that’s not all, he's also a board member at Italy’s children's foundation Foundazione Child who’s president and founder, Ernesto Caffo, also happens to be a member of the ICMEC board of directors. Furthermore, Cardon is also identified as being part of the support committee of several other children’s organizations: Kids’ Care and the Belgian Kid’s Fund.
Now, perhaps it’s unfair to cast the Baron Cardon in such poor light, as his involvement with these organizations may truly be altruistic. Besides, he's a Baron. A man ‘lorded’ by the highest order of the country and a respected pillar of the Brussels business community. A reputable organization such as Le Cercle de Lorraine surely would never allow their ranks to be filled by scoundrels and degenerates, would they?
Le Cercle de Lorraine
Le Cercle de Lorraine was established in Brussels in 1998 and is an association of businessmen from across the city and throughout the country.
A few notable foreign members of the Cercle de Lorraine include:
US Ambassador Anthony Luzzatto Gardner
Qatari Ambassador to Belgium Ali Jassim T. J. Al-Thani
UAE Ambassador to Belgium Sulaiman Hamid Almazoui
Incredibly, members of the business association Le Cercle de Lorraine have also been implicated in the Dutroux Scandal and subsequent cover-up. There are several members of the organization that were identified as pedophiles and child rapists.
Cercle de Lorraine, Child Abuse, Rape and Murder
Count Maurice Lippens 
Trilateral Commission, Harvard School of Business (Europe), Belgian Kid’s Fund
Leopold Lippens – Bilderberg - Fortis - 
Viscount Etienne Davignon – Bilderberg – Kissenger Associates - EU Commission – 
Christian Van den Boeynants 
Son of Paul Van den Boeynants who was the former Prime Minister of Belgium
Cardon, Delwart, Davignon
Cover-Up
- Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer
- Jean-Marie Delwart
- King Albert II intervened in the Dutroux affair
- Many Others
Les Dossier-X and Wikileaks: Witness Statements
In 2009, Wikileaks released the Dutroux Dossier (Dutroux Files). These files contained the witness statements and allegations made against high-ranking Belgian political figures and businessmen.
Predictably, these allegations were covered-up and the blame was placed almost exclusively on Marc Dutroux a convicted child rapist and ex-convict. Nevertheless, the witnesses described the horrific details involving the Belgian elite in their statements and numerous individuals are identified.
Note: For a more complete account of the Dutroux Case see the following links
Documentary 2002 - BBC Correspondent: Dutroux Paedophile Scandal, Belgian X Files Olenka Frenkiel
X-Files: French to English translation: http://archive.is/YcK03
Members of the Cercle de Lorraine are named in the Dutroux files as well as many more. These files are referred to as the “X-Dossiers” (The X-Files) and “X” in the following paragraphs refers to witness “X”. There are nine different witnesses from “X1" to "X9”. The term “witness” is also interchangeable with victim, as some were both witnesses and victims of horrific crimes.
Here, are excerpts that pertain to the members named above.
Paul Van den Boeynants (Son Christian: member of Cercle de Lorraine)
(Note: Christian is not accused of any crime, I’m simply demonstrating the connections between Dutroux Scandal and Le Cercle de Lorraine)
1999, 'The X-Dossiers', p. 327: "Soon in the investigation [interviews with X4] the names of politicians O. and E. are dropped as 'regular customers'. By that time these had already been pointed out by X1 and X3 as child killers.". Following the system used by this book (reversing of the alphabet, works very consistently), O. is really L. and E. is really V., indicating that the real names are Leopold Lippens (mayor) and Vanden Boeynants (prime minister, etc.). There do not seem to be other possibilities. Only problem: according to the leaked X-Dossier summary document, X1 and X2 mentioned Lippens and Vanden Boeynants, while X3 only mentioned Vanden Boeynants.
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X4:
1999, 'The X-Dossiers', p. 327: "Soon in the investigation [interviews with X4] the names of politicians O. and E. are dropped as 'regular customers'. By that time these had already been pointed out by X1 and X3 as child killers.". Following the system used by this book (reversing of the alphabet, works very consistently), O. is really L. and E. is really V., indicating that V. is Vanden Boeynants. Indeed, both X1 and X3 mentioned Vanden Boeynants as a child killer. There doesn't seem to be another possibility.
"... both X1 and X3 mentioned Vanden Boeynants as a child killer."
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[211] PV 114.224, September 27, 1996, 'interview with Nathalie Waeterschoot': "Forgeot [owner Les Atrebates and Dolo] raped her several times when she was 10-12 years old. Other rapists met at the Dolo: Serge Kubla, mayor of Waterloo. Also Léon Defosset, mayor of Etterbeek (deceased). Also Simonet (man with glasses). No physical contact with Defosset and Simonet. She also saw Vanden Boeynants, but always with women."
King Albert and Paul Van den Boeynants (VDB)
PV 151.829, June 2, 1997: "She recognized the regent Charles, King Baudouin and King Albert, and two others that she calls Charly [De Pauw] and Polo [Paul Vanden Boeynants]... A hunt is prepared by Charly and Polo... Gilles (12 years old??) was castrated by Polo... Baby pulled out of the stomach and given to the dogs by Polo [Paul Vanden Boeynants]."
PV 151.688 May 26, 1997: "X3 mentions the following people:... VANDEN BOEYNANTS PAUL... nicknamed POLO"
"Gilles (12yrs) castrated by Polo (VDB)"
"Baby pulled out of the stomach and given to the dogs by Polo (VDB)"
Maurice Lippens and Leopold Lippens
[203] Countess Maurice Lippens and Jean-Pierre de Launoit (chairman) are members of the support committee (Steuncomite) of the Belgian Kids Fund.
http://www.belgiankidsfund.be/comites_nl.html (column at the bottom right)
A Barbara de Selliers de Moranville co-organized a huge party for 3500 children in the garden of Countess François d'Ansembourg. This was part of the Belgian Kids Foundation for Pediatric Research.
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[210] *) X1 in :
In PV 118.869, December 12, 1996: "When the contractions started her [X1's] grandmother made a phone call. The Lippens brothers, Vanden Boeynants and the assistant commissioner of Knokke arrived. [Baron] De Bonvoisin and Vander Elst arrived thereafter... Vander Elst puts a knife on her throat while Bonvoisin rapes her... She must masturbate while Vander Elst makes a number of photos. Lippens rapes her with a razor blade."
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Two anonymous letters, mentioned in PV 116.353: "Reception of two anonymous letters transmitted by JI Langlois. It is about two anonymous letters denouncing Maurice and Leopold Lippens for sessions with children... These letters describe certain facts similar to those reported by X1." One of the letters described Maurice and Leopold as "Monsters de la sexualite".
"Lippens rapes her with a razor blade."
"Sexual Monsters."
The Belgian Kids’ Fund
Now that we’ve met the cast of (cowardly) characters, we can turn our attention to the Belgian Kids’ Fund (BKF) and Kids’ Care (KC). There are several reasons why these children’s organizations are unsettling.
- The Support Committee
- Children’s Events
- Promotions for the Organizations
First, the support committee for the BKF includes Maurice Lippens the alleged child abuser, rapist and participant in ‘hunts for children’. In addition, philanthropist extraordinaire Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer is also part of the support committee. Cardon seems to be involved with every major international children’s organization as well as key Belgian organizations. Is he involved because he's such a tireless children’s advocate or is he there for some other reason entirely?
Second, from the event page of the BKF there was a description of a massive children’s party and social gathering of 3,500 kids hosted by members of the upper class that has since been scrubbed from the website.
By the way, just for interest’s sake, the Countess Maurice Lippens and Jean-Pierre de Launoit (chairman) are members of the support committee (Steuncomite) of the Belgian Kids Fund. Also, Barbara de Selliers de Moranville co-organized a huge party for 3500 children in the garden of Countess François d’Ansembourg’s property, as part of the Belgian Kids Foundation for Pediatric Research.
Finally, the promotions for both the BKF and the KC have suggestive imagery throughout their website and brochures.
Here are some samples, see if you agree.
BKF
BKF
BKF
KC
KC
KC
KC
KC
On their own, these images are innocent enough but taken as a whole these suggestive and repeating images appearing throughout the webpages of these organizations are disconcerting. It would seem they are a subtle signal to a certain target audience within their ‘supporters’ and ‘volunteers’.
The idea that any parent would allow their child to participate in social events, or be involved in any way with an organization supported by an alleged child rapist, is beyond me.
A final note about BKF is that they’re involved in pediatric care and have a special focus on vaccinations. (See part 2 at top of page).
Conclusion
This article describes how the Dutroux Scandal is linked to the ICMEC and its sister organizations in Europe. The involvement of individuals such as Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer in 5 major children’s organizations around the world and his close relations to alleged child abusers (Lippens, Davignon, Paul Van den Boeynants and King Albert II) is extremely unsettling.
Why did the Baron Cardon, a wealthy banker, suddenly become a crusader for children in 1998, founding Le Cercle de Lorraine as well as multiple child advocacy groups?
Why not before this time?
Why all at the SAME time?
Why was Cardon ennobled in 1998?
It would appear that the Baron’s true role at the ICMEC is to make sure allegations of child abduction, sexual exploitation, abuse, rape and even murder involving the upper echelons of society are never reported or discussed in the public domain.
In Dutroux 360 - Le Cercle de Lorraine - Part 2, I will continue to explore the disturbing connections between members of Le Cercle, children's charities, the ICMEC and the Dutroux Affair.
Stay Tuned...
