“It feels unreal that he has been taken away from us so abruptly,” says the entourage of 24-year-old Joppe Trappeniers from Poederlee. The world was open to him. Until an acute brain hemorrhage inexorably ended the young firefighter’s life last week. Just when he was playfully identified as the sweetheart of candidate Sita in the quiz ‘Switch’, he was fighting for his life in the hospital. A fight he would ultimately not win.
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“Not fair, incomprehensible”: Joppe (24) received a standing ovation in ‘Switch’, but just then lost the battle in the hospital
Bytaketonews
Nov 14, 2025