“Always chill. Always cheerful. Someone who genuinely enjoyed life.” Anyone who only knows Wouter van der Horst (43) from photos saw a well-groomed, well-dressed, handsome man. Someone for whom nothing shouted, but everything quietly fell into place. And perhaps that is precisely the most difficult thing to grasp today for the people who knew him well. A portrait of the man who died unexpectedly on Tuesday: “The mere idea that Belle could not say goodbye: terrible.”
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This was Wouter (43), Belle Perez’s husband: “Ellía is 9. Then you think: ‘How on earth are you supposed to tell your child that daddy is no longer coming home?’”
Bytaketonews
Dec 17, 2025