“I couldn’t continue working that way. I didn’t want to have any accidents on my conscience.” Jos* (56) worked for a long time on the construction of a new prestige project in Ghent. Until a few months ago. He could no longer reconcile himself with the unsafe situations caused by the tangle of small businesses there. Construction promoter Democo, previously head of Jut when a school collapsed in the Nieuw-Zuid district of Antwerp, works there with more than 1,000 companies in total. Our research cell spoke to whistleblowers and various subcontractors: “You get the feeling that lives are really being played with.” The building promoter formally contradicts this and says that it respects the legislation.
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HLN RESEARCH. Two years after school collapse, Flemish construction promoter is again setting up a huge project “in questionable circumstances”: “People are playing with people’s lives here”
