The program of the Feestweek has been adjusted and on the first evening a minute of silence was held at 10 p.m., followed by the two -minute ringing of the church bells in the village. Applause followed.
The music stopped just before 10 p.m. Hundreds of people were together. A big torch burned at Café-Restaurant De Eendracht. Some people held each other and afterwards inhabitants embraced each other and tears were swept away. Mayor Maarten Divendal of the municipality of De Ronde Venen, which includes Abcoude, was also present.
The fair is also smaller and the music is adjusted.
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Family present during minute of silence
“Of course we also talked about not going on the party week, but that is not the solution if you want to create a meeting and offer that possibility,” said the mayor. “The family has also let us know how to find how everyone sympathizes and how they think along.”
-The family of the 17-year-old Lisa was present on Tuesday evening during the minute of silence at the party week in Abcoude. “The Lisa family was there and was deeply touched,” said a spokeswoman for on behalf of the family afterwards. “They feel supported and moved by the great involvement of the entire village.”
‘No blueprint for mourning’
According to Divendal “there is no blueprint for mourning.” “We discussed what a decent way is to do justice to this horrible situation, but also a village tradition with a party in the last week of August.”
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The mayor thinks there are probably people who cannot agree with this. “But in this way we and all parties involved think that together we have found a mode that fits our community.”
The girl’s death has a lot of impact. “In a village like Abcoude everyone actually knows each other,” Divendal knows. “There are all kinds of people who feel connected to the family and with the horrible suffering they are going through.”