Is the wolf at home? Joachim Lafosse recovers a media case of pedophilia to address shame and silence

In 2008, Belgian lawyer Victor Hissel was arrested, and later convicted, for possession of videos and photographs of child pornography. His name was on a list of e-mail addresses of people who visited and received illegal content. That case came to the media because he was the lawyer who defended the parents of Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo, two eight-year-old girls who were kidnapped, raped and murdered between 1995 and 1996 by Marc Dutroux, …