During the 1990s and 2000s, he was the subject of a media and legal case in connection with the Marc Dutroux Affair, but was acquitted with a Nolle prosequi in 2010 for alleged involvement in child abduction.
[1] In 1998, he was accused by "Witness X1", Régina Louf, of having participated in the murder of Christine Van Hees, in 1984 in a mushroom farm in Auderghem.
[2] In 2007, he announced legal actions against Régina Louf and journalists who defended the thesis of the pedophile network during the Dutroux affair.
[5] In 2009, he created the Nonprofit organization "Adheh", an association dedicated for the defense and honour of human beings, which he managed from Zeebrugge where he resided.
[7] Also in 2010, Michel Nihoul claimed 250,000 euros in damages from Marc Verwilghen, former Belgian Minister of Justice and chairman of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the Dutroux affair.