A thousand students commemorate Willem (23) who died in an accident on the ocean after a fatal accident: ‘It is so painful’

Amidst the snow-capped peaks in the French Alps, every day at 7 p.m. this week, there is dead silence for a minute. About a thousand students of the Delftsch Studenten Corps (DSC) commemorate their friend Willem (23). Thousands of miles away, on a sailboat in the Pacific Ocean, he died on the first day of 2023. “That Willem went like this. It’s so painful.”

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