---
aliases:
- Joseph Doucé
category: Belgium Scandals
created: 2026-04-28
relations:
- fn: 1
  type: founded
  with: '[[Centre du Christ Liberateur]]'
- fn: 2
  role: surveillance by the Groupe des enquêtes réservées
  start: 1990
  type: subject_of
  with: '[[Renseignements Généraux]]'
summary: Former Protestant pastor in Paris and founder of the Centre du Christ Libérateur,
  under RG surveillance when abducted by men posing as police on July 19, 1990, and
  found strangled.
tags:
- Person
- Belgium
- France
updated: 2026-09-22
---

Joseph Doucé, a pastor defrocked by the Protestant churches and a defender of homosexual rights, lived in Paris, where he founded the [Centre du Christ Libérateur](/organizations/centre-du-christ-liberateur/) (CCL) and had just opened a bookshop, Autres cultures. In 1990 he was under close surveillance by a team of the Paris Renseignements Généraux (RG), the "Groupe des enquêtes réservées" led by Inspector Jean-Marc Dufourg, on the never-proven ground that he took part in a pedophile network; a month before his abduction Dufourg had pounded on his door to frighten him. On the evening of July 19, 1990, two men presenting themselves as police officers took him from his home. Three months later a mushroom gatherer found his body, unrecognizable, in the forest of Rambouillet; the autopsy concluded that he had been strangled a few hours after his disappearance. Dufourg, considered the principal suspect by the investigating judges, was dismissed from the police in 1991. The minister of the interior, Pierre Joxe, spoke of "a frankly disgusting climate." The murder has never been solved.[^2]

### The CCL and the X-Dossier

The writer S. Dovey described the CCL as a support group for pedophiles in the 1980s and 1990s whose counseling sessions served for the exchange of child pornography, and wrote that the [X-Dossier](/events/x-dossier/), compiled under Judge [Jean-Marc Connerotte](/people/jean-marc-connerotte/) and Prosecutor [Michel Bourlet](/people/michel-bourlet/), linked the CCL to [CRIES](/organizations/cries/), whose members used the premises of [UNICEF](/organizations/unicef/) for filming, and to other networks investigated in Belgium, though no direct tie to [Marc Dutroux](/people/marc-dutroux/) was established.[^1]

[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It describes Doucé as a Belgian priest arrested and convicted in the 1990s of possessing and distributing child pornography; he was a Protestant pastor, and he was abducted and killed in 1990 without having been tried. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^2]: "L'affaire Doucé: un pasteur défenseur des homosexuels éliminé." *Le Monde,* August 10, 2006; translated from the French. https://www.lemonde.fr/ete-2007/article/2006/08/10/l-affaire-douce-un-pasteur-defenseur-des-homosexuels-elimine_802544_781732.html