Eighteen students at the Catholic University of Louvain appear after the death of a Senegalese student, victim of abuse during an initiation rite.
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They were part of a club Select, Reuzegom, supposed to be “the crucible of the Flemish elite” and nothing, in principle, destined them to appear before a court to respond with accusations of murder without premeditation. , inhuman treatment, administration of harmful substances and non-assistance to anyone in danger. Son of notables, however, they were eighteen, before the Judges of Hasselt, Limburg, Friday, April 22. All here to explain the circumstances of the death of Sanda Dia, 20, son of a Belgian mother and a Senegalese father, a student from the Catholic Flemish University of Leuven who wanted to become an engineer. Death at the end of a “baptism” (a hazing) consistent with the promise of his organizers: he had to be “crazy and brutal”.
sitting side by side, white shirts and navy blue sweaters, “shrek”, “little seed”, “fly-to-shit” and the others are no longer protected by their nickname and anonymity that have been assured of them since On December 5, 2018. That day, Sanda Dia was admitted to the hospital with a body temperature fell to 28.7 degrees and 117 grams of salt in the blood, as if he had drank four liters of water. Sea. One of the phases of the baptism consisted of swallowing and regurgiting a living red fish. The one who did not happen had to drink quantities of fish oil, high salt content.
Alloned unconscious and replaced in a hole
The other tests consisted in particular to swallow a mouse mixed with dogs for dogs, to be decapted an eel, to dry in a hole before being sprinkled with ice water and urine, etc. Images that the defendants had tried to eliminate were broadcast on the eve of the trial. We see the young Sanda elongated unconscious on the grass before being replaced in a hole. The help has been called only two hours later.
With two comparses, the one that was said that he was “a Sunday child”, talented, smiling, happy, had not wanted to evade an initiatory rite supposed to facilitate his integration. He did not want to hear a club member who, according to another student, had already treated it “Negro”. Not heard others singing “Congo is ours”, in memory of colonization. One of the “tamers” of the “Bleus” (the bizters) also loved to speak of Hitler as “our good German friend”.
“Our life is destroyed, we want the truth, but is it possible?”, questioned a few days before the trial, Papis Dia, the father of the victim. His lawyer, M e Sven Mary, said his hope that “Omerta” is finally broken. At the first hearing, those who were interviewed all denied having forced the young man to swallow the fish sauce. Or argued that he had voluntarily chose to continue the tests while he had “the opportunity to stop at any time”, according to one of them. “Sanda Dia has any imagination of his own free, he expressly admitted the rules of baptism,” wrote one of the lawyers of the defendants in the conclusions he filed.
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