donderdag 30 april 2009

A black day

Day four, and I'm already out of topics.
I've got the feeling that I had a topic this afternoon, but I completely lost it.
That's why I've decided to write about something that really got my attention.
As some of you may know, (haha, did I really say: 'some of you'? that's insane,
because nobody reads this blog :D) It's "Queensday" in the Netherlands.
Just for your information, I'm not from the Netherlands, I live in Belgium, so I don't celebrate this. But anyway, Queensday is like this big celebration and they basically celebrate the dynasty or whatever. There was a big parade, and the Queen
and her family drove around in some sort of bus. Suddenly, a car drove full speed towards the bus. It missed and hit a fence around a statue. But, before the car could reach the bus, he just drove right through a crowd of people, cheering for their Queen. It was just horrible. I saw several news reports and there were different videos. one video in particular was extremely shocking. You could actually see those people on the pavement, slightly moving or not moving at all.
According to the latest reports, 5 people got killed. 4 others are heavily injured and 8 less injured. There's a lot of evidence that the culprit did it on purpose. He was actually aiming at the Queen. He is heavily injured as well and is fighting for his life as we speak. I don't get what's going on in the mind of such a person. He killed 5 people! And why? Of course, for the moment we know very little about his motivation, and we might get this information later on, but nothing is worth killing five people for! that's just insane! Those people just stood there, they didn't see it coming. They had no clue. And now their lives have ended. People might have got traumatised by experiencing all this. And the surviving victims aren't going to like crowds that much anymore. I just hope that they get well soon.
Love
Heleen

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