They immediately alert the police, who are quickly on site and starts a neighborhood investigation. They also call Buren themselves in the hope that a doorbell camera has recorded something. Unfortunately, the device appears not to be switched on. Other local residents can give tips: someone saw a small truck standing still, after which a man loaded the handbikes.
Uneasure
Questions, hundreds of questions arise in them. Who does something like that? What should they do with it? And above all: do they know what they do to us? Bart: “My hand bike was brand new, such a cart costs almost 11,000 euros. And unfortunately he is not insured.” Ilse shakes her head: also her handbike, which she has on loan from the Heliomare rehabilitation center, is not insured.
Hundreds of questions are shooting through their mind. Who does something like that? What should they do with it? Do they know what they do to us? Bart: “My hand bike was brand new, such a cart costs almost 11,000 euros. And unfortunately he is not insured.” Ilse shakes her head. Her hand bike is also not insured.
Symbol of hope
It’s not about the money. Their hand bikes are more than a means of transport; They symbolize hope and a new beginning. Ilse and Bart got to know each other during their rehabilitation in Heliomare and both have had a tough time. Ilse lost her right leg through bone cancer and last year, within three weeks, both parents. Bart’s incomplete paraplegia changed his life drastically, but now he is again in front of the class at the Oost practical school in Haarlem in Haarlem.