“Drivers from the interior should be derived from places on the coast where it is less busy,” says the West-Flemish governor Carl Decaluwé after Ostend closed the most important access road to the city on Thursday because of the unseen crowds. Jean-Marie Dedecker (Middelkerke) and Wilfried Vandaele (De Haan), mayors of seaside resorts where it is often a bit quieter, cannot be found for that: “Are you going to have the police pre-sorten people from Jabbeke?”
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Coast mayor Jean-Marie Dedecker is already shooting ‘Corona system’ for day tourists: “Let people choose where they want to go”
Bytaketonews
May 3, 2025