What is “The Marche Blanche” or White March for Innocence?

The March for Innocence was inspire by the “Marche Blanche” aka the “White March”

The White March (French: Marche blanche) was a demonstration in Brussels on October 20, 1996 after serial child 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.

After Marc Dutroux was arrested on 13 August 1996, and two kidnapped children were found murdered in his basement two days later, commotion started. In subsequent days, the dead bodies of four other kidnapped girls were found buried in various properties that Dutroux had owned. At first, the anger amongst the Belgian people was directed mainly at Dutroux himself, but it quickly targeted the police, the justice department and the politicians as well. Many Belgians denounced the police and government for botching the investigation into the earlier kidnappings and failing to arrest Dutroux earlier, allowing him to kill off the first four victims.

A week prior to the White March people had already begun gathering in front of several courtrooms in Belgium.

The mistrust of the police, justice department and politicians increased when the investigating magistrate Jean-Marc Connerotte, who had been collecting evidence against Dutroux, was accused of bias and dismissed from the case. On 14 October people entered the streets carrying flags which said: "I'm ashamed to be a Belgian".

On 20 October about 300,000 people marched through Brussels. Many Belgians who lived outside Brussels came to the city to take part in the march. This demonstration was called the "White March", everyone was carrying something white: a balloon, a cloak, etc.; some had painted their face white. White was meant symbolically, as the color of hope and innocence. During the march, the fire brigade turned their hoses on the Federal Parliament buildings to symbolically cleanse it. With the demonstration, the Belgian public opinion wanted to indicate something had to change in Belgium and that the justice system and the police had to show more attention to children.

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In solidarity with citizens in Brussels and from around the world, we stand together in Seattle, and Sedona, to say that something has to change stop organized abuse and protect children, now.