with videoA man who was probably sleeping in a paper container in Arnhem died on Tuesday morning after the garbage truck emptied the container in question. The victim ended up in the car.
The victim was taken to hospital with serious injuries on Tuesday morning, but did not survive the fatal accident. The police say they do not suspect foul play.
A spokesperson for the waste company could not share much about the accident on Tuesday morning. “Fortunately, we rarely experience these types of accidents. How exactly that person was injured is still unknown to us, but he or she could have been seriously injured.”
An awful foreboding
Tonnie van den Herik, who as ‘mother of the homeless’ shelters people on Sunday afternoons in ‘De Banaan’, reacts in dismay and upset. She has a bad feeling about one of her visitors, she hopes she is completely wrong. It’s about a confused man who talks to himself. “He was there again on Sunday, I just let him sit there quietly.”
When sleeping in a container, Tonnie thinks more about ‘a confused person’ than about the many other homeless people she knows. “Nobody normally sleeps in a container, they look for other places.” The only example she knows from the past is the confused wanderer Putman, a well-known figure in the city center of Arnhem, a few decades ago. “He lay in a container and lit a fire because he was cold.” With fatal consequences.
Van den Herik bursts into tears during the conversation: “It shouldn’t be possible for confused people to walk out like that, right? You have to include them to protect them, right?”
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