“Maybe now we can finally start mourning,” says Lorena Cascarano after an intense assize trial about the deaths of seven people in the carnival tragedy in Strépy-Bracquegnies, including her mother, father and godfather. Four years after the tragedy, driver Paolo Falzone was sentenced to 27 years in prison. For Lorena and her family, this brings an end to a grueling period of waiting, anger and legal battles. “They lied a lot.”

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