Animal rights organization Gaia was able to file a complaint with civil party claim in the Reuzegom file on Friday through lawyer Anthony Godfroid. “A judge was present today to receive the complaint. We are very satisfied and for us it is ‘case closed’, ”says lawyer Anthony Godfroid. Past days it turned out that the investigating judge on duty in the court of first instance of Limburg was friends with the mother of JS, a member of Reuzegom. The mother is a judge in Antwerp. Due to the conflict of interest, the investigating judge of Limburg on duty could not accept the complaint.
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Initially, Gaia and the counsel were offered the proposal to return on Monday, but the complaint was nevertheless successful on Friday. On 4 September, the council chamber in Hasselt will consider the referral of eighteen members of the Reuzegom student club, who are suspected of, among other things, inhumane treatment, the administration of harmful substances resulting in death, the administration of harmful substances with illness or incapacity for work. consequence, guilty neglect and the accidental killing of Sanda Dia. The engineering student died in 2018 during a baptism by Reuzegom. The animal rights organization is filing a civil party for animal cruelty.
“There are now two options. Either the facts of animal cruelty are included in the list of charges of unintentional killing or the animal cruelty is split up and treated separately. Both options are fine. The main thing is that the file is not delayed, ”says lawyer Anthony Godfroid.
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