After The Tragedy
And then it’s the day after. The day after the big tragedy that stuck Apeldoorn and the rest of our country. More people died during the night, including the driver, bringing the death toll to 7.
There are still so many questions as to why and how, why did he do what he did? How, how could it have happened? Were there enough security measures taken? I believe there were, there were roadblocks, security guards and things like that. One could never have expected someone to drive through a roadblock, hit a crowd from behind, racing through the fencing and crashing into a statue.
The national police is investigating all of this, but maybe the question to the why of this all will never be answered. After all the driver has died too. The police knows this was a deliberate attack on the royal family because they were able to talk to the driver while he was still in the car.
All the photos and video footage is chilling, it brings tears in my eyes every time I watch it. Some say the press made that footage out of ‘sensation’ but to me they were just doing their job. Reporting what had happened, this had nothing to do with sensation.
What did have to do with sensation, is something that I find horribly disgusting. Within the hour someone looked up the name, address and phone number of the driver to post it online. Not only that but contact information of the driver’s family was also posted.
It sickens me to think that people think it’s OK to announce that information. People are visiting the apartment building where the driver lived. WHY? Why would you visit there, what is there to see. They are also visiting the parents of the driver. Those poor people who have to deal with 2 dramas. They too are victims in this, they lost their son, but their son was responsible for the death of so many others at the same time. How do you think those people feel?! They are devastated, they can’t and won’t talk to the media right now and I can only understand that.
Is there loss less tragic because he was the driver, did his family not love him the same as you love yours. My thoughts also go out to them, like they go out to the family members, friends and co-workers of the other victims. My heart bleeds when I realize that some will look at the family with contempt and hold them responsible for what he did. And I hope, in time, they will find the strength to get through this.
The place of the attack is now a sea of flowers. It’s sad and beautiful at the same time that it takes a tragedy like this to bring the country ‘together’ and morn together.
Our Queen’s Day that started off bright orange ended in a jet black.
3 Comments on "After The Tragedy"
I also don’t understand why someone posted the contact info of the driver. It reminds me of the Virginia Tech shootings and how there were attempts to talk to the family of the shooter but, naturally, they didn’t want to talk. I mean, who would want to talk after their son just killed a bunch of people and then killed himself? It sounds a lot like what just happened there. I hope they’ll just leave the driver’s family in peace… and my thoughts and prayers are with all the families and friends of those who passed away.
I was on Twitter fairly recently after it happened, things really went FAST and so out of control. People just started yelling things, and it just wasn’t very pretty. We now know that it’s not really a reliable source for very good information. But sites as geenstijl will always have disgusting media, such as the information of the driver. I don’t know why people do that either – it’s like we all want to be CSI, or something?!
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I am so sorry that this happened.