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Dr. Marcel LECLERCQ
On 2008 February 26th, Dr. Marcel Leclercq, our renowned colleague, passed away in Chênée, Belgium, at the age of 83. We lose an enthusiast colleague, a scientist and a pioneer.

His first interest for entomology started in 1939. This passion and his medical degree naturally led him to forensic science and more specifically forensic entomology. He would have presented his first expertise in 1947.

He performed many other entomological expertises since and, based on his own observations and his medical knowledge, he proposed several revisions of the faunal succession pattern on corpses, as established by Megnin.

He was a collaborator of the Forensic Medicine Institute (IML) in Liège. His expertise has been used in numerous trials in Belgium, but also at the International Criminal Tribunal (TPI) in The Hagues.

Besides, he also was a renowned dipterist and a world specialist of Tabanidae.

We remember his enthusiasm during the First European Forensic Entomology Seminar, in Rosny sous Bois -France- (2002). As a pioneer, he was particularly happy to see this renewing and growing interest this discipline, materialized by the creation of the EAFE.

Luc BOURGUIGNON

INCC (Brussels)