“I thought we still had time. But it all went so fast.” Bart Laeremans, mayor of Grimbergen in Flemish Brabant, experiences the nightmare of every partner. His wife Marleen Tratsaert (59) got a brain haemorrhage during their vacation in Austria and died on Tuesday night in the Salzburg hospital. He was there when she got sick. “I know she was in a coma, but people say you still hear things. So I kept talking to her.”
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Mayor Bart about sudden death of wife Marleen (59) on vacation in Austria: “I was ready to leave, ten minutes later she had died”
Bytaketonews
Aug 1, 2025