Jean-Denis Lejeune is the father of Julie Lejeune, abducted along with Mélissa Russo in Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 on June 24, 1995, and imprisoned in Marc Dutroux

Marc Dutroux

Marc Dutroux is a Belgian serial killer and child molester, convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls during 1995 and 1996, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered. He was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein,...

's cellar. She was 8 years old at the time. She died, probably of starvation, some time between December 6, 1995 and March 20, 1996. Jean-Denis Lejeune was one of the foremost leaders of a massive protest march (the "White March

White March

The White March was a demonstration in Brussels on October 20, 1996 after serial killer and criminal Marc Dutroux was arrested. The demonstrators wanted better protection for children and a better functioning justice system that could investigate the Dutroux affair independently.-Prior...

") of 300,000 people on the capital, Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

, on October 20, 1996, in which demands were made for reforms of Belgium's police

Police

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 and justice system. Jean-Denis Lejeune is the founder of Child Focus

Child Focus

Child Focus is the common name of the European Center for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children.Their emergency telephone numbers are:* 116 000 toll-free, in Belgium connects it to Child Focus, in some other EU-countries this number is routed to a local similar organisation.* +32 2 475 44 99...

.

Since 2005, he has been working with Claude Lelièvre

Claude Lelièvre

Claude Lelièvre is the Commissioner for Children Rights of the French Community of Belgium, an office similar to the Children's Ombudsman agencies elsewhere.-External links:...

, the Commissioner for Children Rights of the French (i.e. French-speaking) Community

French Community of Belgium

The French Community of Belgium is one of the three official communities in Belgium along with the Flemish Community and the German speaking Community. Although its name could suggest that it is a community of French citizens in Belgium, it is not...

 of Belgium.
Today, he's a politician of the Centre démocrate humaniste and canditate for the Belgian general election, 2010

Belgian general election, 2010

General elections were held in Belgium on 13 June 2010. After the fall of the previous government over the withdrawal of Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats from the government the King dissolved the legislature and called new elections...

 on june 13 on the same liste like Melchior Wathelet (Junior), the son of Melchior Wathelet

Melchior Wathelet

Melchior H.M.J.F.C. Wathelet is a Belgian politician and member of the Humanist Democratic Centre. He has degrees in law and in economics and is a Master of Laws . He's also a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and the Université de Liège...

, the then-minister of justice who prematurely released Marc Dutroux.