Much is still unclear about Tom Waes’ drunken accident, and the Flemish showbiz media spares him a lot. De Privé now wants to send troops to Antwerp. “A few reporters.”
Tom Waes is coming under a lot of fire in the Netherlands because he got behind the wheel while drunk and subsequently caused an accident. Initially it seemed like an ‘ordinary’ accident, there was a lot of compassion, but that quickly changed. The driver of an arrow car was also injured as a result of his kamikaze ride.
Very wonderful
How different is that in Flanders, says Evert Santegoeds. “It is very surprising how people respond to that. On the first day, the Belgian media were already exhausting themselves with excuses, while everyone could have suspected, knowing Tom Waes, that something more was going on than falling asleep at the wheel and crashing into that thing.”
The editor-in-chief of Privé continues Telegraph site: “Tom Waes himself took the lead by announcing at one point that he had been drinking and that he had drunk quite a bit, is the impression. The blood alcohol level has not been announced, but the Belgian police have been able to reconstruct it.”
Fright and misery
How are things going with Tom now? “Yes, and then also how things continue at home, because his girlfriend was the woman who prided herself on having tamed Tom a bit. she thought. And this faux-pas actually puts her back at square one. The big question on Belgium’s mind is: will this blow survive this relationship?
Does Evert think that relationship will last? “Of course you are still in fear and misery. He needs to heal and get back on his feet as quickly as possible. It remains strange that no one really wants to say anything about his state of affairs. Whether he broke something or has a concussion.”
Private forces
One thing is certain: there are still many unanswered questions about the accident, according to Evert. For example, he finds it very strange that it was initially reported that Tom had been resuscitated on the highway for forty minutes. “And later he wasn’t resuscitated at all.”
The Flemish press does nothing and that is why Evert is considering sending private troops to the southern neighbors. “There is so much that is unclear and the Belgian press is ignoring so much at the moment that I really think: what else is going on there? And shouldn’t we send a few reporters ourselves?”