Snappers barred from Dutroux trial courtroom

Photographers from several Belgian newspapers and the French weekly Paris Match were today barred from entering the courtroom where Marc Dutroux is on trial for kidnapping, child rape and murder after ignoring a ban on publishing pictures of him in the dock.

Dutroux held up a large white envelope today to shield his face from flashing cameras on the other side of the dock’s bulletproof glass divide.