Columnist and journalist Hugo Camps has died at the age of 79 in his hometown of Knokke. With this, not only Het Laatste Nieuws says goodbye to a journalistic icon. His intimates also reminisce about a “salon rebel and rascal” and “one of the most colorful figures the Belgian press has produced”. “When we said goodbye, we were two tough hunks who had become tiny mollusks.”
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Intimates say goodbye to Hugo Camps: “Before he died he said to me: ‘something must be done about the loneliness of the people’”
