YouTuber buys official ambulance clothing on the internet and walks into theme park and zoo without any problems | InstagramHLN

A brief history: after the Paris attacks in 2015, an analysis revealed that emergency services should be more recognisable. The then Federal Minister of Health Maggie De Block (Open Vld) therefore agreed with her fellow ministers in 2017 that intervention services should wear clothing with the colors yellow and enamel blue.

Ambulancers have to get those clothes somewhere and that appears to be done via the internet, without you necessarily having to prove that you drive ambulances as a profession. Boerema bought an outfit that normally only doctors from the MUG wear, after a whistleblower pointed out to him how easy it is.

“This clothing was actually invented to combat terrorism,” says the Dutchman at HLN LIVE. “If you have that in mind and you see how easy it is to buy this. I am not a MUG doctor and almost faint when I hear the word ‘blood’. It’s too bizarre for words.”

To demonstrate the potential danger, he put on the ambulance clothes and went to visit the Antwerp Zoo and the amusement park Plopsa Station Antwerp. In the first case, he passed ticket control without any problems and was able to walk around freely after saying he was coming for a security check. At Plopsa Station he did the same and showed a manager the emergency exits, first aid station and the like. He filmed his visits an undercover report on YouTube.

Frank Vandenbroucke (Vooruit), the current Minister of Health, and the competent federal government service provided Boerema with a joint response. “In Belgium, ambulance personnel are identified not so much by their clothing, but by a badge. The FPS Public Health only issues this to recognized paramedics,” explains spokeswoman Wendy Lee. “We note your concern about the free sale of these clothes and are looking at the possibilities,” she told the journalist.

In response to Boerema’s report, Member of Parliament Ortwin Depoortere (Vlaams Belang), chairman of the Home Affairs committee, plans to put questions to Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden (CD&V). He wants to know if she will oblige purchasing channels to ask for the necessary identification. The meeting is scheduled for April 12.