Marc Metdepenningen (16 February 1958 – 8 November 2020) was a Belgian journalist.

Career

He began working for ''

Le Soir ''Le Soir'' (, "The Evening") is a French-language Belgian daily newspaper. Founded in 1887 by Emile Rossel, it was intended as a politically independent source of news. It is one of the most popular Francophone newspapers in Belgium, competing ...

'' in 1984 and specialized in criminal affairs. He notably covered the Dutroux Affair and

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. He also unveiled the fraudulent case of Misha Defonseca's

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. Throughout his career, he covered numerous criminal and civil cases. He also served as President of the Journalistes du journal ''Le Soir''. Marc Metdepenningen died in

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on 8 November 2020 at the age of 62.

Publications

*''Les grands dossiers criminels en Belgique'' (2005) *''Crimes & châtiments dans l'histoire judiciaire belge'' (2019)

References

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