Family and friends hold silent vigil to sealed café after gezinsdrama Wijnegem

Wijnegem has A hundred friends, neighbors and customers on Friday evening, met at café ‘t Village, and to reflect on the death of the family of Dominique V., Peter P., and their children, Jamie and Jack.

Last Wednesday they were also on the sidewalk in front of café ‘t Village. When everyone was in a great mood for the trip with the disabled supporters group of Tosh Van der Sande to the Brabant Arrow. After the trip they had beers drunk in the café of the couple. There was a tightly wound argument between Dominique V. and Peter P., a policeman. When the woman's husband said that they have a point wanted to put behind their relationship, Peter P. furious to the outside. He drove home and shot their two children dead. Then he returned to the café, where he and his wife to the kind of life and then committed suicide.

Friday night were a lot of racing cyclists back in the event the café since Wednesday night is sealed by the police. Now for a silent vigil after the gezinsdrama in which Dominique (40), Jamie (11) and Jack (9). There was little said, many people took each other once firmly, often with tears in the eyes. The two sisters, Dominique V. were present to candles and photos to lay down at the flower that was in front of the café was.

Tosh Van der Sande represented

The disabled supporters group of Tosh Van der Sande was represented by the parents of the rider. The rider himself could not be there. The club organizes every year in June, a cycling race in Wijnegem, but that this year will not take place.

For many people, the question remains hanging as to how this drama could have been prevented. The relationship between Dominique and Peter sat for a while in the doldrums. Customers had often quarrels experienced, but no one could have imagined that the conflict is so dramatic would happen. What the mourners the most concerned with, is the question of why Peter P. also his two children, in which he was so proud of what was, in his frenzied moordtocht has dragged.

mayor Ivo Wynants (N-VA) came to his support.