Six years later, someone is speaking
In April 2021, the police came to the couple’s home to talk about the crime reported by a woman three months earlier. “I finish my beer and I follow you“, replies Jean-Luc. At the same time, the Charleroi police arrive at the home of his friend Dominique, denounced by his ex-partner. “Don’t tell me it’s for Christiane” he told them.
The two men sit down at the table. Yes, they did transport the lifeless body of a woman, six years earlier, and they threw it in a well, after having transported it in a freezer. During this disastrous procession, they even encountered a police patrol.
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The two men take their escort towards the Canal du Centre, to a place located under the motorway bridge. They indicate a well, made of reinforced concrete. Sad burial for a lady whose disappearance no one reported. Investigators find bones. Modern medicine makes it possible to identify the victim, Christiane Scherpereel, born in 1950 in Mouscron.
Vulnerable woman
Christiane Scherpereel was mentally retarded. She was a little lady who loved crocheting and pets. She also frequented the city’s underworld, which allowed her to meet Jean-Luc Clitophon, with whom she shared cans of beer in the parking lot of a store.
Jean-Luc welcomed Christiane into his home. The monthly income of the Clitophon-Volkaert couple, which was 1,300 euros, social benefits received by Mary, doubles thanks to Christiane.
She slept in the bathroom, on the floor or a makeshift mattress, near the latrine. Sometimes she received slaps from Jean-Luc, the drunk who woke her up at night to satisfy her needs. One evening, on an unspecified date between November 1, 2014 and May 1, 2015, he hit too hard, in the head, with his fists and a VHS tape. Reason: she allegedly threatened to hit her daughter, the eighth wonder of the world for Jean-Luc.
The next day, Christiane was dead. Where ordinary mortals would have called the police, Jean-Luc called his old friend Dominique to get rid of the body. The couple continued, for three years, to use the deceased’s account. A heinous crime kept silent for six long years.
The court and the jury noted in their judgment the extreme seriousness of the facts, the profit motive in the use of the victim’s bank card, as well as the length of the offense period.
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