In recent weeks, details have come out in the media about the horrific death of student Sanda Dia during a student baptism of the Reuzegom club. “GAIA is also extremely shocked by what happened to him and by what the victim has undergone, as well as by the very lukewarm disciplinary sentences that the members of Reuzegom have received,” says Michel Vandenbosch of GAIA.
GAIA wants sorority members to be prosecuted not only for the student’s death, but also for animal cruelty. During the fatal baptism ritual also “terrible facts of animal abuse happened”, Michel Vandenbosch explains.
The animal rights organization is aware that one of the Giant Gommers has put a mouse through the blender. “You might say: a mouse? But this is a serious violation of Article 1 of the Animal Welfare Act. That animal has therefore been reduced to a purée. We know who did this and we are going to file a complaint. We are therefore taking a civil party against those who committed those cruel acts and also against strangers, ”said Vandenbosch.
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