Crowdfunding started for widow died of yellow suede Roger (49)

On a French crowdfunding platform is a fundraising campaign started for the wife of Roger Borlez (49), the man who as a yellow jacket-activist Friday, lost his life when a truck was hit by a car on the E25 highway Liege-Maastricht at the height of Visé (Wezet).

The crowdfunding state since Saturday on the in French-speaking Belgium known site Leetchi.com. The initiator is Pierre Lorgnard from the Liège region Nandrin. He wants to use the crowfunding the large funeral costs help cover and stressed that the proceeds will go entirely to the widow. After three days is 155 euros were collected. A moderate start, but “it is still but a beginning,” said Lorgnard in the Supresse newspapers. The action is about sixteen days.

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as small As 300 people came Saturday to the train station of Liège-Guillemins to Roger Borlez to commemorate. After a minute of silence joined the group in the rain to the centre of Liège. Some of the attendees shared yellow roses. Borlez’ widow Jacqueline was present.

A man from Landgraaf (Limburg) in the case if new suspect identified, confirms the Liège public prosecutor today. A 56-year-old truck driver from the Netherlands Dongen (Noord-Brabant), who was previously arrested, on Sunday, released. It turns out he has nothing to do with the collision. His truck was identical to the truck of the man from Landgraaf. This was noticed by surveillance cameras at the Dutch-Belgian border. The facts are provisionally qualified as manslaughter. The examining magistrate in Liege has a new European arrest warrant will be issued.

By the death of Borlez, the counter of the number of dead compatriots as a result of ‘yellow bibs-incidents’ at three. The other two victims were no active protesters, but drivers who were surprised by the blockages. So drove a man in his fifties from Solre-sur-Sambre on 14 december in a stationary truck at the border crossing in Hainault Erquelinnes. Five days later, it happened to a 52-year-old trucker from Mountains the same at the border crossing near Tournai. In France died so far ten people as a result of yellow bibs-actions.