“5 minutes of ‘fun’ can mark the rest of your life. And not just yours”: exactly one year ago Renate lost her 14-year-old son due to fireworks

While fireworks are being lit everywhere at midnight, one Antwerp mother asks you to take a moment to consider what you really have in your hands. For Renate Degryse (50), New Year’s Eve is not a holiday, but a day of mourning. Exactly a year ago she lost her 14-year-old son Jack in a fireworks incident. Now she warns young people and parents: “With every bang I think: someone might lose a hand. Or worse.”

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