Eighteen people implicated in death of Sanda Dia after brutal initiation that included standing in an icy well
Eighteen former members of an elite university fraternity inProsecutors have asked for sentences ranging from 18 to 50 months in jail for the 18 people implicated in the death of Sanda Dia, a 20-year old engineering student, who died in December 2018 after being forced to drink excessive alcohol, eat large amounts of fish sauce, and stand in an icy well for hours.
Dia, whose father arrived in Belgium as an asylum seeker from Senegal in 1994, had aspired to join the elite, mostly white Reuzegom fraternity at KU Leuven, formerly the Catholic University of Leuven and one of Belgium’s most prestigious universities. To gain entry, he and two others endured a barbaric multi-day initiation process, which, according to local media, began when the three were forced to consume large amounts of alcohol, including a litre of gin, and rancid porridge.
The 18 defendants are on trial for the administration of harmful substances resulting in death, as well as degrading treatment and unintentional killing. The other two students who survived the ritual after being treated for hypothermia are civil parties to the case.
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