Editing Luc Jouret (section)

== Early life ==
Luc Georges Marc Jean Jouret was born on 18 October 1947 in [[Kikwit]], in the [[Belgian Congo]].{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=109}}{{sfn|Introvigne|2006|p=28}} He was the second son of Napoléon and Fernande Jouret ({{nee|Jeanmott}}), both Belgian. His father Napoléon Jouret had studied in Germanic languages and was a local government official in Belgium, while Fernande was a housewife.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=47}} After the birth of Jouret's older brother in Belgium in 1946, Jouret's parents moved to the Belgian Congo, where they settled in Kikwit; at the time, the colonial administration of the territory needed more civil servants, and Napoléon took up a job in territorial administration.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|pp=47–48}} 

Jouret was born a year later; he was a sickly child, suffering from [[rickets]], pulmonary issues, [[whooping cough]], as well as nutritional issues. Due to the lack of medical equipment and the climate in the Congo, his family returned to Belgium when he was 18 months old. By the age of three he had recovered under his mother's care, though he remained fragile in health. They returned to the Congo and settled in [[Matadi]] where a third son was born in 1951.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|pp=48–49}} Napoléon switched careers into teaching Germanic languages to Belgian children, both black and white, and the family moved to [[Kananga|Luluabourg]].{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=49}} In 1954, when Jouret was six, he fractured his skull after being hit by a cyclist. His family, fearing for his life, returned to [[Dour, Belgium]] for good.{{sfn|Introvigne|2006|p=28}}{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=49}} A fourth child, a daughter, was born two years later.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=50}}

As a teenager Jouret, now in better health, began to excel at sports, particularly [[judo]] and climbing. He aimed to become a teacher in [[physical education]]. In 1966, he enrolled in the prestigious [[Université libre de Bruxelles]] with a scholarship; his brother, also a student there, described him as a "serious idealist" at the time, not interested in money. Following [[May 68]], communism was popular at the school, and Jouret was an especially devoted communist.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|pp=51–52}} Napoléon Jouret, then a school administrative manager, was an avid [[secularist]] and progressive critic of Belgian society. He created an organization opposing Catholic influence in [[Wallonia]], of which he was president.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=50}} At home however he was disciplinarian and occasionally physically abusive. Jouret's older brother said that while he was not abused, he believed Jouret was. Jouret left home at about 21 years of age, under violent circumstances. A later patient of Jouret said that he had complained to him later in life of the lack of freedom and strictness of his upbringing.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|pp=47, 50–51}}