The defeat is great in Wanroij. A 46-year-old woman was found dead in her house on Sunday. Her ex-husband was arrested that same day. What exactly happened in the home is still unclear. Red flags flutter everywhere, while the police can’t say anything on Monday. And the cap keeps its lips stiff together.
The Molenstraat is closed with police ribbons on Easter Monday. The canvases have been cleaned up, but the investigation by the police is still in full swing. Dozens of police and fire brigade cars drive up and off, while the recreational cyclists have to turn around. Some people come to have a look, others lay flowers.
“Dear, we don’t forget you,” says a card that is tied to a bunch of me-nots. Someone put it on a big boulder, just before the police ribbon. The atmosphere has been left, the neighbor has taped her letterbox. Probably not to have to receive questions from curious people. It’s too early, too fresh, too bad to say something about it now. “This is way too close,” says a local resident.
“Yes, that a woman, say, was murdered by her ex-husband.”
The impact of such a crime on a village is huge. With just 3000 inhabitants, the news spreads in Wanroij in an instant. “Yes, that a woman, say, was murdered by her ex-husband,” says an employee of the community center. “I hear those things here quite quickly.”
And so the story goes through the village. “I didn’t know her, but her ex-husband did,” says a woman at the supermarket. She says he would have stalked her and the two together had a 17 -year -old son. She doesn’t want to say more than that.
So more questions than answers. The lips stay on top of each other. To protect the victim and to stop the rumor mill. Because most people do not know what exactly happened there. But mainly because it is too early, too fresh and too bad.
