‘They wake up with it and go to bed with it’
The news hits the village like a bomb. Not only friends and family mourn, the whole of IJmuiden sympathizes with the relatives. Hundreds of condolences are pouring in on social media under reports of his death and flags are flying at half-mast throughout IJmuiden.
“It has a huge impact,” says Dini, who is walking along the Lange Nieuwstraat. “I hear it all around me, people are devastated. I live on the lock, then you realize how dangerous the work of those men is. I don’t know him personally, but when I talk about it, I feel full again.”