REPORTING. “Our daughter is having trouble with her lungs, of course we are worried”: protest against controversial Antwerp gold smelter is growing | Popular in HLN+ REGION

“Value Trading must go.” Neighbor Cecilia Van Hoijdonck (84) has been honking the horn for thirty years. Recently she has received support from an unexpected source: the Jewish community also wants to get rid of the “polluting and sickening” gold smelter in the Antwerp station area. Yet not everyone in the neighborhood is against the factory. “I get a huge ‘déjà vu’: my Jewish neighbors also wanted my business out of here.”