The black student Sanda Dia is tortured to death by members of a fraternity, his tormentors, sons from a higher family, get off with mild sentences. Is there class justice in Belgium?
The verdict in the Sanda Dia case, which was announced on May 26, was difficult for many people in Belgium to bear. The black student at the Catholic University of Leuven died at the end of 2018 during the “baptism” in a student fraternity. More precisely: He succumbed to a disgusting torture ritual. He had been poisoned with alcohol, had to freeze in a waterhole, rain his fellow students’ urine on him, eat live fish and mice, and drink so much fish sauce that his organs finally failed.