A night out at the Carré with a friend almost turned out badly for a 24-year-old from Bonheiden. After several punches in a fight and a backwards fall with his head on the paving stones, the twenty-something was in a coma for a month. Today the public prosecutor’s office in Mechelen demanded a conditional prison sentence of 2 years for his aggressor (21). But the consequences for the victim are great. “We have lost our son from the past and we will never get him back.”

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