Jean-Denis Lejeune is the father of Julie Lejeune, abducted along with Mélissa Russo in Belgium on June 24, 1995, and imprisoned in Marc Dutroux'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") of 300,000 people on the capital, Brussels, on October 20, 1996, in which demands were made for reforms of Belgium's police and justice system. Jean-Denis Lejeune is the founder of Child Focus.
Since 2005, he has been working with Claude Lelièvre, the Commissioner for Children Rights of the French (i.e. French-speaking) Community of Belgium. Today, he's a politician of the Centre démocrate humaniste and canditate for the Belgian general election, 2010 on june 13 on the same liste like Melchior Wathelet (Junior), the son of Melchior Wathelet, the then-minister of justice who prematurely released Marc Dutroux.[1]