Child killer Marc Dutroux has asked a Belgian court for an early release, as a handful of protesters gathered outside the courthouse to call for his original sentence to be upheld.
Dutroux was found guilty of kidnapping and raping six girls in the mid-1990s.
He killed two of them and left two others to starve to death in a makeshift dungeon.
His wife, Michelle Martin, who had been convicted of helping him, was released to house arrest in a Belgian nunnery last year.
Inside the courthouse, policemen put up barbed wire fences to seal off the area around the courtroom, and used metal detectors to screen those allowed to attend the closed hearing.
Belgian media reported some 200 policemen, a helicopter and a car convoy were mobilised to transfer Dutroux from his prison in Nivelle, a town some 30km south of Brussels, to the courthouse.
Before entering the heavily-protected courtroom, Dutroux's lawyer Pierre Deutsch, argued that according to the law each person has the right for his sentence to be reviewed.
Under Belgian law, criminals can be freed after serving a third of their sentence, as long as they meet certain conditions.
Dutroux will be eligible for conditional early release at the end of April.
However, under Belgian law criminals can be released from up to six months before that if they remain under electronic surveillance.
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