Belgium's deadly student hazing

[Jean-s]

Eighteen members of the now-disbanded Flemish student club Reuzegom risk years of imprisonment for the death of Sanda Dia, a 20-year-old student who died after a hazing in 2018, after details of his death were made public.

Dia, who was a 20-year-old civil engineering student at the university of Leuven, died of hypothermia and multiple organ failure during an initiation to join student club Reuzegom, after drinking large amounts of alcohol and fish oil, and standing in a cold pool of water in December for an extended period of time.
Reuzegom: what happened during Belgium's deadly student hazing?

What is most disturbing about this story is the racism of the elite student club whose parents are predominantly in the legal and medical professions.

The victim

 

[swing_voter]

Although Leopold II established Belgium as a colonial power in Africa, he is best known for the widespread atrocities that were carried out under his rule, as a result of which as many as 10 million people died in the Congo Free State.


This is all I know about Belgium.

 

[Oborosen]

Eighteen members of the now-disbanded Flemish student club Reuzegom risk years of imprisonment for the death of Sanda Dia, a 20-year-old student who died after a hazing in 2018, after details of his death were made public.

Dia, who was a 20-year-old civil engineering student at the university of Leuven, died of hypothermia and multiple organ failure during an initiation to join student club Reuzegom, after drinking large amounts of alcohol and fish oil, and standing in a cold pool of water in December for an extended period of time.
Reuzegom: what happened during Belgium's deadly student hazing?

What is most disturbing about this story is the racism of the elite student club whose parents are predominantly in the legal and medical professions.

The victim

This had come up on one of our regular discord servers a while back. I was not too aware of the exact reasons for his death at the time and it's good to see that there are some final conclusions in the works. I'm going to be honest here. Whoever designed and initiated such a "test" should be punished as severely as possible. Alcohol worsens the body's reaction to such things as adjusting for adverse temperatures. So anyone with even a sliver of sense, should have know that making him do as such was more than likely going to be fatal.

The worst part being, that those responsible may come off with a much softer sentence than intended by everyone else. Simple for the fact that they will most likely sell his "need" to be involved, as a way of guarding everyone else from much of the responsibility. Sadly, this kind of occurrence is not a unknown in that part of the world. So we may have to wait and see what actually comes of all of this.