Carnival starts with mixed feelings: ‘Still you have to celebrate life’ | Inland

VENLO – “I can pretend that nothing is wrong, but of course that is not the case,” says Eric Vestjens while he is furiously dressed and with a ribbon of blue-yellow balloons through carnival-celebrating Venlo. “These colors are not coincidental. A country of free people is under attack right now. You might as well dwell on that.”