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41. The murder of Katrien De Cuyper
During hearings on 8 and 15 February I described how Tony picked me up and drove me
to the castle in ‘s Gravenwezel threatening to kill my children if I didn’t come with him. I
was not able to give details about my role in the murder of Catherine. I felt these
immense feelings of guilt and fear again and I had to stop the hearing. But I decided to
send Patrick a fax with the details. In this fax I admitted that I had been forced to
#!$%@? at Catherine’s murder. As I said before in this book, Tony was dialling my
home number on a mobile phone and told me that if the phone rang at home, his
accomplice would make sure something very bad happened to my children. I expected to
be arrested but because of my history of prolonged sexual abuse and the threat that my
children would be killed I wasn’t. I was told however that I had to file a complaint against
Nihoul, Tony and businessman Y, which I did in the name of my three children who had
been threatened, Eli, Yentl and Hannah. On 1 March before my last hearing with Patrick,
the detectives took me to ‘s Gravenwezel where, after some driving around I recognized
the Kattenhof castle as the place of Catherine’s murder. I witnessed several other child
murders there during the last series of sex parties at which I was forced to #!$%@?.
During the hearing that took place immediately afterwards I gave the detectives a lot of
additional details.
What the journalists who wrote the “X-files” found out concerning Catherine’s murder
follows hereafter.
On 17 December 1991 around 9.30 p.m. Katrien De Cuyper phoned her parents from her
boyfriend’s house in Antwerp. She promised to take the last bus of line 64 to come home.
Around 10.45 customers of a lorry driver café “Les Routiers” saw her make a phone call
there. The telephone switch was of an old model that wouldn’t allow the investigators
later to identify the person she called. Katrien wouldn’t be seen alive again. Her
disappearance caused a big shake up in the Antwerp region because two other teenage
girls Inès and Inge had disappeared without a trace during the same period. On 19 June
1992 construction workers discovered a female body during infrastructure works they did
in the Antwerp docks area close to the hangers of an import company called “Katoen
Natie”. A dental identification revealed the body was Katrien’s. The autopsy report
showed that she must have been murdered shortly after her disappearance.
After the discovery of Katrien’s body several anonymous letters were sent to the parents
and to a magazine by a person who stated that he had given her a ride to Brasschaat,
North of Antwerp around 11 p.m. I don’t know if this person has ever been interrogated.
A year later a Dutch psychopath, Ludo De Beukelaer was arrested and accused of
murdering the three girls. He showed almost spontaneously where he had buried Inès and
Inge but denied stubbornly that he had anything to do with Katrien. The investigating
magistrate Michel Jordens spent a lot of effort on the case but there were insufficient
leads and five year later the case was still unsolved.
When I talked about my involvement in the murder of Catherine during my hearings in
February 1997, the time of death of Katrien perfectly matched with what I said about
Tony picking me up when my daughter Yentl was a little baby. I have never been good
with dates but this time everything fit including the description I had given of the
premises, the entrance, the moat, the little bridge, the old “orangerie” etc.
De Baets and some of his detectives would meet with their Antwerp colleagues on 13
February. The Antwerp guys reacted with enthusiasm because several details matched
perfectly. They further investigated the secret life Katrien was supposedly having during
the months preceding her death. Some of her friends had confirmed this but her parents
reacted exactly like Christine Van Hees’ parents and didn’t want to accept the idea. The
detectives discovered that above the café Les Routiers a Dutch porn company was
established. Gerrie Ulrich, at whose apartment in Zandvoort near The Hague, the police
would discover in 1998, 50.000 child porn photos, showing the cruellest ways of torture,
as I mentioned earlier, was a customer of them. Among these photos there was one
showing a girl who looked exactly like Katrien.
But in March the slander campaign to discredit myself, De Baets’ team and the other Xwitnesses had started. According to Patrick he had been told clearly on 24 April 1997 that
if he didn’t stop digging he would get problems.
In October 1996 Tony had been followed by the police a couple of times but only during
daytime because the overtime allowances for night work appeared to put too heavy a
strain on the BOB budget. End 1996 all his telephone conversations were registered and
on 24 October between 4.55 and 5.17 p.m. he made eighteen phone calls to B.V.H. an
officer of the national police detachment of Brasschaat, situated very close to ‘s
Gravenwezel. Tony’s ex-girlfriend Odette would later state that B.V.H. was one of
Tony’s best friends. And De Baets’ detectives would discover that the Antwerp team had
been reinforced by B.V.H.! A little later In March 1997 the Special Intervention Squad of
the national police put a special tracking device commonly called “gonio” into Tony’s
car. This device that used satellite communications was in principle only used to locate
top criminals. When Prosecutor Bourlet asked to keep the device in the car for two more
months, the national police refused to do so. During April Tony would be reported
twenty-one times in the immediate neighbourhood of four schools. One of them was
Katrien’s school were her sister still attended classes.
But the slander campaign against the X-witnesses was starting to take its toll. Begin 1998
a search was finally ordered at the Kattenhof castle. This was too late. Renovations had
been carried out and the search warrant didn’t allow the detectives to search all the places
involved. They wanted to request a new warrant but the press storm that had started early
1998 had discouraged them. The prevailing attitude was “Why are we wasting our time
her?” In the meantime the first investigating magistrate, judge Jordens had been promoted
and replaced by a new one, Vyncke.
On 21 October 1998, the Minister of Justice, Tony Van Parijs would declare that
“Investigating Magistrate Vyncke had decided to close the verification of the X1
testimony based on the conclusions of a meeting between magistrates from Ghent,
Antwerp and Brussels.”
That was it! The murder of Katrien would remain unsolved just like so many other child
murders.
29. Bee Heyse
Near the end of 1991 I lost my job at “Against her will” because the government had cut
subsidies. I was disappointed but happy at the same time because I could stay at home
now and didn’t have to put my children in a day-care centre anymore. Although the centre
was all right I felt much better. It was December 1991 when I heard someone knocking at
the front door. I opened and I gasped for breath. It was Tony and of course he was not
alone. The guy with the tattoos who had also been present at Chrissie’s murder at the
mushroom farm was with him this time. Erwin was on the road driving his truck and
wouldn’t come home until very late at night. My mother kept Tony very well informed.
“Hi pussycat.” He said.
The two men entered my house and Tony told me I had to come along with him again. If I
were good nothing would happen to my kids. Otherwise, you know, accidents happen.
Little Yentl might die from crib death. I didn’t know what to do. I know, people have
asked me why I didn’t tell the police, but there had been policemen among my abusers
and I was afraid of them. At the same time I was convinced that I would be thrown in
prison myself and on top of that my mother kept repeating me that I had to be nice to
Tony because she loved him so much and didn’t want him to dump her. I was terrified
they would hurt my kids and after a long hesitation I agreed to come along. The “guard
dog” would stay at my house again to “watch” the kids. I’d find out later that he took
nude pictures of them. Tony drove towards Antwerp asking me if I wasn’t too young to
have a family. He told me that it wasn’t too late to come back into the “group” and that it
wouldn’t be hard to “take care” of my children. He thought he was being funny. We
arrived at a little castle that I would later recognise, as the “Kattenhof” in ’s Gravenwezel,
east of Antwerp. I didn’t know that I was considered a high risk factor for the network
because I was writing down my experiences as part of my therapy, and I had acquired a
lot of acquaintances through my job at “Against her will”. They knew all of that through
my mother. They were afraid that sooner or later I would talk and thus they had decided
to make me an accomplice. They would go far beyond child abuse now, as I would soon
find out. Several people of my network were already present, Mich, Annie, Michael the
lawyer, a businessman, Paul the politician and a few others.
Mich asked me if I knew why I was there. He told me I had to learn something. If I did all
right, I would be allowed to return to my children, otherwise ... The group left the castle
and walked towards one of the adjacent buildings. There I noticed a young girl named
Catherine. Her hair had just been washed, I could smell the shampoo. She was very
scared. Tony asked me to make love to her. When I refused he grabbed a mobile phone
and started dialling my number. He told me that if my phone rang at home, his friend
would make sure that Yentl would die from crib death. This put me in total panic; I
couldn’t lose another child. And I finally accepted to do what they told me to. Catherine
was terrified so I told her in a very soft voice to relax as much as she could. But sex
wasn’t enough. They started torturing Catherine and wanted me to join. When I refused
In 1983 the last baroness Gillês de Pélichy died and her heirs decided to sell the castle. So, in 1984 the castle was bought by the Antwerp art and antique dealer and collector Axel Vervoordt. He uses the castle for exhibitions and as his residence. He has entertained lots of famous people in this castle such as members of the Belgian and Dutch royal families as well as the pop star Sting.
Mr. Vervoordt used to open his castle to the public two times a year. When I visited I was stunned by the beautiful interiors in the castle, really a must-see. Alas, it was not permitted to take pictures inside the castle due to insurance terms. At present this castle residence can not be visited.
A month after De Cuyper's body was found, weekly magazine Blik [nl] received a letter from an anonymous sender claiming that they had given her a lift after she missed her bus the night she disappeared.[4][8] The following October, Blik received another letter from the same sender, as did De Cuyper's parents the month after.[4] In February 1997, Regina Louf (also known in Belgium as "Witness X1") wrote a letter to police confessing to killing De Cuyper.[9] Louf said that De Cuyper had been held in a castle north of Antwerp in which children would be raped, tortured and killed by what Louf described as a "paedophile network", and that she had been ordered to kill the teenager during an orgy.[9][10] No concrete evidence was found to support Louf's testimony.[9]
Axel and the BOB
June 29, 2001
As we already wrote (see "The return of the ghosts" of June 6 and "Amy said" of June 26), the American art journalist Amy Page was until recently a child at the castle of the Belgian art dealer Axel Vervoort. And that for years and years. This was also the case when, on New Year's Eve 1996/1997, she came to meet Michel van Rijn in Rome to her outpourings about Axel's close encounters with boys between six and twelve years old. In May of this year she adjusted the image of that time and said that Axel had given up those practices for years and had become a real pater familias. For years? How many years? Maybe celebrate? In February 1997 - well over a month after Amy's revelations in Harry's Bar - Regina Louf (X1) told something for the first time about the murder of Katrien de Cuyper in a castle near Antwerp.On March 1, Regina went in search of that castle with a BOB team. They lost their way, but after a hint (!) From one of the detectives, they found a castle in 's Gravenwezel. The property of a baron, whose name had come into the picture earlier during the Dutroux investigation. "Here it is," Regina is said to have said. But the BOB team did not react to this and turned its attention to the adjacent castle of Axel Vervoort, which did meet the description of Regina. Because it was an open day at Axel, the team, accompanied by Regina, went to have a look there and then determined that details from Regina's statement were not valid.They went back to their office without being successful and informed carefully selected journalists what Regina had said about the castle and that she should be out of her mind. X-1 was ably burnt off further.
Based on this state of affairs, a few questions arise: Did the team know, according to the hint, which castle was involved thanks to the gossip circuit to which Amy also belonged? Why was there no attempt to investigate the baron's castle? Why in Axel's? Was that to keep the baron out of the picture or did the BOB issue a warning to Axel with that almost crazy visit that the mounting of boys had to be over? A warning that Axel apparently took to heart, as shown by Amy's statement. This story is not over yet.
In the past, we have often fought a shadow fight with, say, the largest antique slider annex interior regulator in Belgium: Axel Vervoordt. The son of a horse dealer, who for years has diligently surrounded himself with pop idols, tennis girls, scavengers from artistic circles, nouveau riche and (fi donc) lutes from the circles of Marquis de Canteclaer de Barneveld and higher. As long as they have money.
There was plenty of reason for that fairly constant attention. For example, friend Axel once quickly pushed away a painting from the Schloss collection, which had been looted by the Krauts, when the floor became too hot.
The latter was more common. Even literally, when en un momento dado an expensive French parquet floor was chipped from under Axel's ass, which gave off a slight scent of healing. And while we're on the subject of healing: Not so long ago, Axel bought through a German colleague a healing-smelling Egyptian tomb of the very wise Ali Aboutaam living in Switzerland, who still has fifteen years of credit in his native country due to illegal mega- trade in vulgarly stolen works of art and antiques.
And then of course there was Axel ?? s childhood love, which came to the surface thanks to a classic conversation between our London correspondent Michel van Rijn and the American journalist Amy Page during a party in Harry ?? s Bar in Rome. Via that link we ended up with witness X1, Regina Louf.
At the beginning of the years of investigation into the Dutroux and environs case, Regina, accompanied by a pair of mustaches from the BOB, paid a visit to Axel's castle in Gravenwezel, where an open day had just taken place. It would have been more or less a coincidence. They should have pointed to the neighbors at the Catershof, but the gate was closed there. According to Regina, children had been abused and murdered in the porter's house on the domain of Philippe de Caters, who was still living in Uccle at the time. And one of them would have been Katrien de Cuyper, who was later found murdered in the port of Antwerp. You would say open door, but the track was not or hardly exploited, because X1 made too many contradictory statements about it.
Still, it remains strange. All the more because a few weeks after that first visit to the Catershof cq. the open day at neighbor Axel's porter's house and surrounding land were taken over by the same art-loving childhood friend Vervoordt. The question is whether Philippe de Caters sold his property in a panic or whether the negotiations for the sale to Axel were well underway when Regina and the BOB rattled the gate. What can you do but ask? De Caters now lives somewhere in Spain, so we addressed the following email to our trusted Anne-Sophie Dusselier, the press secretary of Vervoordt:
" Dear Mrs. Dusselier,
On March 14, 1997, Mr. Vervoordt bought the porter's house and some surrounding land of the domain, located in Gravenwezel, from the De Caters family, in this case Philippe de Caters. For the purpose of a publication on this matter on our website, we would like to hear from you whether the aforementioned transaction was preceded by lengthy negotiations or whether the acquisition was reasonably rapid.
We would also like to know whether Mr Vervoordt had a commercial intention with the takeover and whether that intention has now been fulfilled ??.
Never shot, never red-hot pitch from the battlements. Stay tuned.
Zastanawiająca jest bliskość Axela do tego miejsca i jak dyskutowano o nim na przełomie lat 90/2000. W 2004 roku przypadek zaangażował w dyskusję dziennikarza Alana Hope, który miał sceptyczne stanowisko:
https://pdfcoffee.com/109518200-regina-s-story-pdf-free.html
Właścicielem dużego zamku w 's-Gravenwezel jest Axel Vervoordt, na przełomie lat 90/2000 dużo pisano o nim w kontekście oskarżeń o handel dziećmi.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stelling.nl%2Fkleintje%2Factueel%2Foverzicht-actueel%2Factueel-03-10-december-2001
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stelling.nl%2Fkleintje%2Factueel%2Foverzicht-actueel%2Factueel-16-20-april-2002
https://www.castles.nl/gravenwezel-castle
Zamek zakupiony w 1984 roku.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Louf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Katrien_De_Cuyper
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stelling.nl%2Fkleintje%2Factueel%2Foverzicht-actueel%2Factueel-16-29-juni-2001
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stelling.nl%2Fkleintje%2Factueel%2Foverzicht-actueel%2Fagvl1136279009
Zastanawiająca jest bliskość Axela do tego miejsca i jak dyskutowano o nim na przełomie lat 90/2000. W 2004 roku przypadek zaangażował w dyskusję dziennikarza Alana Hope, który miał sceptyczne stanowisko:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.tr