The fact that in Belgium the words “diamond” and “stopping exports” were mentioned together at a press conference by the Prime Minister will take on more importance in Kiev than the 92 million euros in military aid we are sending. Because a multiple of that amount in Russian diamonds is still traded in Antwerp. “The moral excuses for this have long since run out,” writes deputy editor-in-chief Dimitri Antonissen. “If Germany can become independent from Russian gas, why can’t we do it with a luxury product like diamond?”
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Our Opinion. “Would anyone like to get another diamond from Antwerp on Valentine’s Day, possibly with the blood of Putin’s war on it?”
