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 Marc Dutroux, the accused child murderer, launched a final tirade against the Belgian authorities yesterday for mounting an "organised lynching". He claimed that he was the scapegoat for a powerful child prostitution "Mafia" protected by the state. Delivering a three-hour final plea in Belgium's trial of the century, the former car thief and handyman denied murdering four girls and a male accomplice in a spree of kidnapping, rape, and killing that rocked Belgium in the mid 1990s. "I am not a murderer," he said. "The true assassins are at liberty. They have escaped justice because it serves the interests of organised corruption." He admitted only that he played a role in abducting or hiding girls. Dutroux's speech was his last chance to name the alleged masterminds of the child prostitution ring. But he offered no fresh details shedding light on the alleged network. Speaking with his usual pedantic self-confidence, he said his only fault in the death of the eight-year-olds Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo was to "abandon them to the conscience of my wife", Michelle Martin. He implored her to "tell the truth" of what really happened for the sake of the parents.