ATh if he had known! The new boss of “Chez Lequet” in Liège would have been to salute the Nazis and sing “heili hailo haila” on a float in a carnival procession and not in a restaurant room filled with families who came to sacrifice the tradition of rabbit balls . Because in a float in the middle of a carnival procession, all that is humor. And the very refined explanation of the manager at the RTBF microphone – “We did the pounding. We exaggerated, I am sorry but everyone has their humor ”- would have taken the road better to explain what was very little… farce.
Finally this is what we think of Aalst, where the carnival organizers are preparing to let floats parade with caricatures of Orthodox Jews, with papillotes, hooked noses, rats and heaps of gold, as was the case last year, and that in the name of humor. “Aalst in Zottenland, alles kan en mag” – Aalst in the land of madmen. Everything is possible and allowed: that’s what has governed since …
