December 2018 20 year old sandadia was brought into the emergency room by a few of his um his college friends I don’t know if we’re going to call them College friends but just think of it like that right now he was unconscious all the color in Santa’s face had drained from
His body and he felt cold to the touch he was unresponsive and the doctors are confused like this is an otherwise healthy active young man who had no indications of any sort of pre-existing medical condition and now this 20 year old is laying here with a body temperature of only 80 degrees
Fahrenheit or 20 degrees Celsius a healthy body ranges around 97 to 99 degrees Fahrenheit this is a huge difference it was also showing that he had hypernatremia so this is when there’s an excessive amount of sodium in the body the FDA suggests an average American adult consumes about 2 300 milligrams of
Salt a day Santa’s body was reflecting as if he had consumed 160 000 milligrams of sodium that is over two months of the average sodium intake that it seemed like he had consumed in one day you don’t do that by eating a ton of fast food by eating something salty that’s poisoning yes
It didn’t make sense the doctors and medical professionals tried to ask these so-called College friends what happened to Sanda what was wrong with him like what how did you guys find him how did you guys get him here what was he doing prior to knocking out they all just kind
Of shrugged they all looked the other way or said things along the lines of we don’t really know we think he’s strong we don’t really know what’s wrong okay something was clearly very wrong though despite all the life-saving attempts by medical staff twenty-year-old Sanda Dia would die of multiple organ failure when
The hospital performed an autopsy to figure out what could have been the issue what could have been the cause of such a healthy college student sudden death they were shocked so it’s customary to go through the stomach contents during an autopsy it reveals a lot you know the last time
When someone ate can be told by the stomach contents or the amount of acid there is what they ate can even be determined if maybe there was something ingested that could have led to their fatality all of these things I don’t think anything could have prepared the doctors for what they’re
About to find inside of sandadiya’s stomach they found that he had been starved of food and water for the past two days but instead in his stomach there were goldfish not the snack the actual fish like the pet goldfish swallowed whole decapitated mice heads swallowed whole and decapitated eel heads you know like
The eels that swim in the ocean or fresh water eelheads decapitated it was clear to doctors that Santa had gone through something very horrible before his death he had been tortured by 18 fraternity brothers from the most prestigious School in the entire country he was being hazed
He was trying to join a fraternity and he died during the initiation process and for nearly five years 18 fraternity Brothers held meetings with their powerful families and attorneys they cleaned up the evidence they covered their tracks they stayed hush-hush about what happened leading up to sanda’s
Death and for nearly five years they were able to keep it somewhat a secret till it all started coming to light and it exposed one of the most heinous sadistic fraternity hazing initiations I have ever researched in my life pledges were forced to bite off the heads of
Live mice and Eels swallow them whole chug glasses of other people’s urine swallow live goldfish drink fish sauce do you know fish sauce it’s like soy sauce yeah they were forced to defecate and urinate on each other they were forced into Graves filled with ice water and Eels
All these very well thought out actions of 18 college students would lead to a bright College student’s death and they would basically get away with it so let’s get into today’s case As always full show notes are Veil bought rottenminglepodcast.com but um last month June of 2023 a YouTuber by the name of acid posted a video that got him banned from the platform for like a week so it’s making me a little nervous but his video has since been taken down
But the damage was essentially done he started a social media Carnage if you will and I’m not even mad about it acid posted a video about the killing of sandedia from 2018 and in the video he released some of the names of some of the perpetrators involved he essentially
Docks them and that’s why the video was taken down but the impact was already done acid is considered one of the largest Dutch speaking YouTubers in all of Belgium where this case takes place so his audience is pretty big and when he dropped this video this case starts
Getting massive attention and even after the video is taken down people have downloaded it reposted clips of it re-shared it on Tick Tock Facebook all these other platforms they’ve linked articles journalists got involved and this is how Sanders case became international news recently there were conversations about racism in
Belgium and really everywhere else in the world conversations about colleges hiding and burying students disgusting Secrets conversations about how rich kids can seemingly get away with anything and it thrusts a certain fraternity into the spotlight Rue’s home I think I’m saying that right it’s spelled with a G but I think it’s
Pronounced H right ruseum was founded 77 years ago and their emblem is like this Flemish lion I’m sorry but when I look at their emblem it’s like very Harry Potter Slytherin Vibes their colors are green and white they’ve got a Flemish lion and most of the fraternity members
So it’s an all-male secret society basically they’re members that are students of law engineering business so these are very established people from established families this fraternity in particular quickly became one of the most sought after fraternities of the entire University what’s the University it is the number
One University in Belgium it’s k.u Logan and this is like one of the most prestigious universities in all of Belgium so this is like a top school and this fraternity inside Lovin was one of the top fraternities everyone wanted to be a part of they were incredibly exclusive every year they would only
Accept maybe two to three new members and they really honed in on the secret society aspect of the fraternity I mean there were so many rumors about them there were rumors about how extreme they took their hazing but I think at the time at the school it only added to the
Intrigue it only made them more mysterious and more sought after like this Larger than Life reputation because none of them would speak on truly all the hazing that they went through but you just you almost it’s almost like the badge of honor that they wore you have no idea and that makes you
More intrigued most members also came from Elite families that had power and influence which added to the exclusiveness of the fraternity it felt less like a fraternity and truly more like a secret society of all the rich powerful kids at this particular School do people know who’s in there or not really
Um everyone at the on campus yeah yes oh okay yes so it’s the type of fraternity here’s my opinion on it I think that everyone might [ __ ] on this type of fraternity and talk [ __ ] about them and be like oh what a bunch of weirdos but maybe maybe if they personally invited
You to a party you might get a little bit excited or like oh my gosh I can’t believe they even know me right kind of that energy but because of this YouTube video that was posted by acid and this is a case that happened in 2018 a lot of
The secrets of the fraternity were slowly exposed a few Secrets had been laid to rest had been dug back up by acid in 2013 an animal rights Group by the name of Gaia lodged a complaint against the fraternity a video had been leaked in which the fraternity Brothers had filmed
Themselves killing and abusing a baby piglet as part of The Hazing ceremony a baby pig instead of formally charging them the university covered for the fraternity by putting together a document called The Hazing Charter it’s so unserious the school admin put together a document that just said please agree to abstain
From violence racism extortion bullying sexual assault and discrimination and using animals during hazing these are all illegal actions why are they even like okay to do at the beginning it’s like please don’t kill people you’re in hazing please I know you already how is that but here a thing
Yeah so they just made this document and had all the fraternities and sororities on Campus sign it and I know what you’re thinking okay okay so Rhythm signed it and then turned around and went back to hazing people with piglets right they didn’t even sign it they refused to sign it
They basically told the school thanks for covering for us but we’re gonna do what we want and the university took no further action made no further attempts to make hazing safer for humans and or for the animals and soon the whole thing was forgotten meanwhile the fraternity
Got right back into it a recent document showed that their annual initiation they created a food menu for the pledges this is what it reads appetizers Grasshoppers and cockroaches main course live mice and fish dessert coffee and cocaine and that’s not all a creepy photo was released of the fraternity and
It’s its horror level it appears to be the fraternity members after a hazing ceremony in the forest and they’re all dressed in suits and trench coats and these thick coats that are long there’s four pledges so these are the four people getting initiated that are in the
Photo two of them are on the floor on all fours in just in the woods the other two are on their knees one has a gun pushed into his Temple and the other one has a rifle pointed at him it’s like horror level photo what and that picture left everyone wondering
What kind of hazing rituals was the secret society doing like what kind of dark things was this fraternity involved in what really happened behind closed doors in Rhythm where most members had parents who were politicians lawyers doctors and CEOs how far would these parents go to protect their kids if
Something happened inside this fraternity sandadia wasn’t really the type to join a fraternity and I’m gonna explain why later but not that anything is typically wrong with fraternities but we’re gonna get there Sanda was born in Belgium and since the day he was born like many immigrant parents sonda knew that he
Just had this privilege of even being born in Belgium like even being born in this country to him was a privilege sanda’s dad was from Senegal and he was actually a refugee who sought asylum in Belgium just a few years before sondo was born and like so many immigrant fathers he
Had given up practically everything for his two sons to have this better life and he knew that black belgiums they just don’t get as much opportunities as their white counterparts and just to get the same level of respect treatment and career advancements he knew that his
Sons would have to work twice as hard just because they were black so ever since they were born hard work is like ingrained in them it’s like in their DNA from the minute that they took their first breath so when they were kids Mr Dia the father
He would work all day long in the local Factory he would spend his nights learning the local language any amount of spare time he found in between he would sacrifice sleep to stay up with his sons while they did their homework and you know I think it’s ingrained in
Immigrant parents to want to sit their kids down constantly and say things like do you know what I had to go through do you even appreciate what kind of blessings you have how privileged you are right Mr Dia didn’t really have to do that with his sons
They seem to kind of already know they didn’t really take anything for granted and all he wanted was for Santa to dream big and achieve everything that he ever wanted and thunder was on track ever since he was young he was constantly thinking of like new things
He wanted to do new projects Endeavors challenges that he wanted to tackle when he was in kindergarten he made this best friend a fairy and they were like lifelong friends they lived about five minutes away from each other and they were practically glued at the hip everyone in their neighborhood would
Just hear excited talking laughing and then see this like blur of motion zip past them and when they look to the right there goes Santa and fairy again goofing around on their little bikes they would constantly talk about how they’re gonna make their own video games
One day how they’re gonna oh they loved manga so they would ride around on their bikes and talk about how they were going to go to university get a good job save up all their money and move to Japan one day and they would swear it pinky swear
To each other that they would be best friends forever and make get to Japan sonda would never make it to Japan but he did make a lot of friends growing up he’s very ambitious and smart goofy I know it sounds really cliche but he was
Just kind of like um like a natural at everything he did you could be solving this impossible math problem and he would walk in sit down and within two seconds solve the problem with you it almost didn’t seem fair for someone to be so good at everything on his first
Time playing soccer with his friends they were shocked they’re like what do you mean you’ve never played soccer before how are you so good there’s no way you’re lying to us you’re hustling us whatever he did he just seemed so naturally good at it which is the exact
Type of person that people want to hate people don’t like Perfect People too kind too smart too ambitious too funny but it’s just really hard to hate sonda those who knew him said you have one conversation with him and you just want to be his best friend he
Just gets people he gets how they think he knows how to find Common Ground he knows how to make people feel safe and unjudged and comfortable it’s like you know when you’re part of a big group and maybe for some reason they’re all poking fun at you why is
Your voice so squeaky why do you talk like that oh gosh you have a valley girl accent Sanda would be the type to not even smile and look straight at you look you in the eye and say I really like your voice he was just so magnetic you know that’s
The best way people describe him After High School sonda was admitted into the prestigious University of lovin to give you context on how impressive this is sonda would be the first member of his family to attend University and he was going to attend one of the most prestigious universities in the country
His family was beyond proud Mr Diaz said it was an absolute dream for me yeah the school was about 30 minutes away from home but Santa chose to dorm and he starts doing his studies he chose civil engineering and by 2018 he was in his third year of a five-year program to
Receive both his bachelor’s and His Master’s in civil engineering I think sonda put a lot of pressure on himself like yes I think his dad pushed him but I think for Asanda he was really mature for his age and I think that most of us find out later oh you know wow being
Able to study in a country like this is actually a huge privilege I think that sonda realized that when he was a kid so he put in the work he wanted to make his dad proud he didn’t want to waste this opportunity that he had
He wanted to be the one to retire his dad and to tell him that everything had worked out because of everything he had sacrificed so now that he’s in his third year of University the idea of getting a job after he graduates is just looming over
His head he’s not even spending his time partying he’s just thinking about okay in two years I’m gonna graduate and I need to find a job and I need to be able to pay the bills and I got to do all of these things anything to himself maybe I should join a fraternity
Okay I know a lot of people join fraternities because they want a sense of community or let’s be real you know sometimes it’s the prestige or the partying the Legacy the friendships the social life the exclusivity and I’m sure Sanda wanted a little bit of that too but he’s thinking very practically he
Has the grades he has the social skills he has the work ethic but he’s gonna be a black man entering into an industry that is still predominantly controlled by white men white men that were all connected to each other somehow so Santa wanted and as a black man he almost
Needed that kind of network because you know we live in a world where it’s not really just about Merit it’s also largely about who you’re connected to it was no secret that many students in the Risen fraternity came from very high profile families and Elite backgrounds some asanda’s friends
They were kind of shocked when he told them that he would be rushing which is like applying to be part of a fraternity a lot of them were confused you know and something that I found interesting and I’m not sure if it’s different in Belgium but he’s joining as a third year
And not as a first year which makes me believe is yes maybe he wanted all the other cool things that came along with being a part of a fraternity but it really does seem like he did it for the networking aspect he’s like in two years
I’m gonna graduate and I need a network so third year into universities like okay maybe it’s time for me to join a fraternity sanda’s older brother said clubs like that have its benefits being in a club like that if you know them it’s really good for your network and when you leave
School these types of people will trust you a lot faster another black student stated some people think it’s stupid to join a fraternity and go through the hazing period but for a lot of black people it’s very understandable so I think this is um some Nuance that’s
Needed for this case there yeah I’m sure he just wanted to be a part of a fraternity as well but I think for him being a black man that networking power meant so much more to him it was so much more necessary the sentiment being for black University
Students networking means more than just having frat parties on the weekends it could make or break their careers after school remember sonda’s best friend fairy he was kind of surprised when Santa told him he was rushing and side note fairy himself was not a huge fan of
Fraternities like he had a whole stigma about them and he always thought you know what Santa you’re the type of person that you don’t need to join a fraternity you are such a people person you can make so many connections on your own in school after school I mean you’re
So friendly you’re so charismatic why do you need a fraternity but when Sanda explained to him all the reasons that it made sense for his career fairy was like okay it’s actually kind of smart like I get it it’s not this impulsive thing you just woke up
And you wanted to join a fraternity you’ve put thought into it in 2018 sonda was one of 10 new students who rushed or attempted to join Rhythm and out of the ten just three made it to the final stages of the quote recruitment process a total of three pledges if you will
Sonda and the two other pledges that are just known by their initials were the three now I think at this point they were just weeding out the ones that they didn’t think would be a good fit they were getting to know the 10 people see if their interests personalities ability
To socialize all these things were a match and now they narrowed it down to three and now the hazing begins and side note the definition of hazing is the practice of putting someone in physical or emotional distress as some sort of initiation test The Hazing would happen over the course
Of a few months I know so every fraternity is different in the states I believe it’s two weeks of hazing but uh here is like months two months basically and then it would all lead to this climactic weekend which is like initiation weekend where they have this
Big ceremony for two three days straight and you’re just getting hazed the entire weekend no stops no breaks no going home to sleep it off you were just at the mercy of the fraternity that you want to join and Zonda knew that he would be hazed he
Went in thinking what everybody else was thinking okay it’s gonna be uncomfortable this is not gonna be a good time you are expected to drink alcohol probably be pushed to your limits in some sort of sense or another but nobody goes into this expecting to lose their life
Sonda spoke to his friend Rob on campus and Rob had rushed for another fraternity and he was calming Santa down like you know it’s not that bad like I obviously can’t tell you what my fraternity did because that’s a secret but it’s not that bad it’s like run-of-the-mill mental fortitude stuff
You know they just want to see how disciplined you are how much conviction you have in the fraternity it’s gonna suck I mean don’t get me wrong it’s gonna suck for a little bit but it’s gonna be worth it once you’re initiated sonda hated it he hated the parties which were all mandatory
Allegedly sonda was made to drink large amounts of alcohol and then drink the urine of the members of the Frat as some sort of test and if that kind of abuse wasn’t bad enough Sanda was also verbally abused and emotionally abused through racist remarks on one occasion in October of
2018 only two months before The Hazing ceremony that resulted in Santa’s death the fraternity was hosting something that they call a cantus and according to sources it’s like a traditional activity where there’s a huge amount of alcohol and people get together where they play games sing traditional songs and drink
Beers it’s like a big party honestly so this specific cantus was held on October 8 2018 at this Student Association building that was now turned into a rentable party room named albatross and the pledges were forced to attend as usual this fraternity is a rather Rowdy party like they’re they’re a crazy crowd
Everyone’s getting blackout drunk the pledges were forced to get down on their knees and the fraternity brothers would pour hard liquor down their throats on a normal evening the pledges would be forced to down seven pints of beer individually pints not glasses and I mean just even think about the
Carbonation itself just think about like seven pints of sparkling water and once everyone was beyond drunk everyone was done partying the pledges would be forced to clean up after the party while they can barely stand because of how they were forced to be so drunk they’re basically throwing up
Cleaning up their vomit throwing up again and then imagine how badly you just want to go to sleep the room is spinning you feel horrendous you feel like [ __ ] and you’re being screamed at to hurry up and finish cleaning normally all three pledges were forced to clean but on this particular evening
The fraternity Brothers had a different idea they decided on a whim Santa should be the only one to clean an employee of the party room who was also a fellow student overheard the conversations and it was reported the fraternity Brothers turned to Santa and started calling him racial slurs with the hard r
They also said and I quote black people should work for the white and the employee remembered calling out to sonda and saying dude you can’t let yourself be talked to like that and all sonda could respond was I can’t do anything about it right now reportedly the employee tried to tell
The boys off but he was just one guy facing off against 20 Rich entitled powerful racist men honestly the scariest type of person out there the fraternity Brothers weren’t even slightly embarrassed they weren’t even sorry for what they just said it was so clear to the employee that they feared
Nobody these are things that they’re saying and doing in public they have no shame they believe that they were above everything and everyone they responded to the employee saying yeah well mind your own damn business so imagine sonda is desperately doing his best to be accepted because of his
Future he’s wasted because the boys forced him to drink seven pints of beer and now he has to clean up after all of them while they shout slurs and derogatory remarks at him and he’s only 20 years old he’s really still just a child and despite this horrific incident
Sunday continued to attend the Frat Party nights and continue to rush and I know there’s gonna be people out there that are confused like why would he still even want to be friends with these guys be associated with these horrible racists that don’t even respect him
Because he works so hard to get to where he was he had seen his dad give up everything for his education his friend said Sandra knew his dad did everything for him to give him a better future and he always promised to live up to that
Sonda knew as a black man he would need more than just his Merit and his own talent and skill to advance in his career had he been white he may have never even thought to join this fraternity maybe he wouldn’t believe he needed extra connections on top of his abilities
And had he been white he might not be dead there is a strong racial element to this case which I don’t think can be ignored so clearly the fraternity brothers are racist but it goes much deeper than that in the 77 plus years of Rhythm the fraternity only
Two members were black or of African descent and only one of the two is still alive so one of them went through initiation in 2015 and Sanda was the second who is accepted into the hazing I did see some comments online about why he joined an all-white Fraternity in the
First place because most universities do have like more black fraternities that have predominantly black men in them and stuff like that but I feel like that’s very victim-play me to me um but to give further context sonda actually knew a few of the frat brothers from Rhythm they were part of a big
Group that he would play soccer with so it’s not like he just randomly chose this all-white fraternity and was like that one I want to be in that one he was actually acquainted with some of them and one of his kind of friends that he was slowly becoming closer and closer to
While they played soccer he was like Hey I’m gonna be rushing for rhythm this year so Santa’s thinking okay well if I’m gonna be rushing I might as well be a pledge with someone that I’m already kind of friendly with so we can go through it together so he chose rhythm
Besides Sanda made it this far in initiation he had his father’s work ethic and determination he just wasn’t a quitter then the initiation weekend began this is what the fraternity calls the baptism this was the final weekend of hazing a full weekend of the pledges being at the
Hands of the fraternity members whatever they already went through would most likely pale in comparison to everything that they would have to do this weekend December 4th was day one of The Hazing weekend the first task would be initiated at 4 pm Sanda and the other two pledges were
Forced to dress up as Apostles a reference to the fraternity’s Catholic origin so they’re wearing like these long white flowy robes and they were sent out into the city with a bundle of single roses and their mission was to sell as many roses as possible and whoever sold the least would endure a
Wide range of punishments the punishments would include things like drinking rotten milk eating bird food and of course being force-fed copious amounts of alcohol sonda ended up last place for the selling of the Roses task he sold 30 less roses than the other two initiates and honestly the way that they punished
Him for this first task I was imagining it to be bad like I always imagine it to be like drink a glass of this rotten milk okay punishment over task number two let’s go but this was a whole new level sonda was forced to drink so much
Alcohol that according to one of the brothers at The Hazing he was already so drunk he couldn’t even speak this is after the first task this is only 7 PM that evening so only three hours into The Hazing ceremony I think again this is a very nuanced conversation but a lot of netizens
Pointed out that sonda’s skin color could have also factored into why he wasn’t able to sell as many roses as the other two pledges and now he was being punished to the max to the extreme for it and they went overboard to the fraternity Brothers being drunk didn’t mean anything it
Didn’t mean no it didn’t mean stop they continued hazing Sanda Sanda couldn’t even speak and the brothers started their second round of tests side note I am conflicted on how to reference the group so maybe I’m just going to call them the group going forward there’s about 18 of them that
Are present throughout most of the hazing um because saying Brothers even though I’m saying fraternity Brothers makes it sound like they’re Brothers to sonda which clearly they weren’t to call them men I think would be a disservice to the real men out there that would never do
Something like this to call them boys would make it seem like they’re minors that are incapable of making good choices they’re all legal adults keep that in mind so I will call them the group and if I do say brothers that is in reference to fraternity Brothers
So the group began their second round of tests the pledges were forced to their knees this was the group’s favorite position because of how easy it was to tilt the pledge’s heads back by pulling their hair and pouring alcohol straight down their throats they got the pledges on their knees and
Started asking trivia questions now remember the other two pledges who were white have not been punished yet and I don’t want to say that they had no alcohol in them as I can’t know for certain but they weren’t drunk Sando was so drunk he could barely talk
Guess who’s not going to answer the trivia questions well Sanda and if the boys got a question wrong the group would pour gin not beer but gin hard liquor down their throats this went on for about an hour how quickly you get drunk on gin depends largely on your metabolism but I would
Imagine for most people a few shots of gin you’re feeling buzzed you’re feeling Tipsy or if you’re like me you’re drunk Sando is already super drunk so he got most of his questions wrong and by the end of the second round he had consumed one and a half bottles of gin
One and a half bottles it wasn’t specified what size the bottle was but I’m guessing it wasn’t one of those airplane shot bottles it’s likely one bottle was around a pint which is about eight shots and this is like he has nothing in his stomach he hasn’t eaten just non-stop
It’s not even over the course of the whole night at this point Santa couldn’t even walk by himself and according to Witnesses all the color had drained from his face he likely would have already thrown up a couple of times and he was on the verge of dehydration and passing out now
What’s Wild to me is all of this so far has been done in public according to the statement made by one of the fraternity Brothers present they did task two the trivia question and the pouring of the Gin down their throats on the pavement in front of a cafe in the Town Square
So they’re literally hazing Santa in public to the point that he is unable to even stand up on his own and nobody alerted the authorities nobody did anything it wasn’t even 9 pm yet so it’s not like 3 A.M where it’s just a bunch of college kids being rowdy
Not even 9 pm and it was time for the third task the third task was survive the night the pledges were dragged back to the fraternity house and 18 members of the fraternity hazed them for as long as they could the pledges were made to guess how many beers they could chug
Without passing out presumably the one that could chuck the most would be in first place even though there’s no first place like what do you get just being more drunk the group started mixing hard liquor with beer and just the the beer was intentional the pledges were already so
Drunk and it was only a matter of time that they threw up because of the carbonation of the beer and straight up alcohol poisoning sanded downed what is believed to be about six to seven beers this is already in addition to everything that he’s already been forced to drink earlier
Today so like the one and a half bottles of gin he was forced to drink a bit more earlier than that so this is a lot of alcohol he is at this point from what people say on the verge of blacking out I mean I think that he’s already blacked
Out like he’s not out cold if that makes sense but I highly doubt that he’s gonna have much recollection of these events I think he’s blacked out sonda had thrown up multiple times and now after a seventh beer he was knocked out cold all three pledges were completely unconscious they were
Breathing but nothing was going to wake them up at this state like you could be kicking them and they would not wake up unsurprisingly the group had their finishing touches Tad even unconscious the pledges couldn’t escape the torture according to the fraternity’s tradition if someone passes out at a party they
Get urinated on it is likely due to the fact that passing out is seen as weak or like oh you can’t hold his liquor blah blah blah what a weenie should feel even more masculine and honestly just have this ego trip the members of the fraternity would stand
Over the passed out pledges and just urinate all over them it feels like such a power play like so degrading for no reason at all one huge piece of evidence that would be used later would be a deleted video of members of the group urinating on Sanda who is completely unresponsive
It was taken at 11 39 PM that night at around midnight when the contest was finally over they hauled the three limp boys and threw them onto their respective beds the only thing the group did was make sure the pledges were all laying on their side so you know they
Didn’t vomit while laying down choke and die how nice of them besides that the torture continued the group cut off chunks of the pledge’s hair and smeared the rooms with Nutella and ketchup the most vile thing though the most inhumane part of all of this I
Mean the part that I can’t even wrap my head around though is after forcing the pledges to drink lethal amounts of alcohol and dragging their unconscious bodies into this trashed bedrooms the boys taped and cut off all the water supply this meant that if one of the boys woke
Up and attempted to get some water to sober up and rehydrate there was absolutely no way they could even get a drop of water to me this is beyond insane to think that forcing 20 year olds to drink multiple bottles of gin and then depraving them of water for the next 24
Hours would not result in death to me that shows personally in my opinion this shows an incredible level of neglect and premeditation of abuse and I would like to remind you this is just day one of The Hazing ceremony and I would also like to remind you these
Are college students from one of the most prestigious universities in the nation you can’t tell me they don’t know that you get dehydrated from alcohol poisoning like you can’t tell me that they didn’t think oh they’re going to be dehydrated because they have alcohol poisoning let’s cut off the water like that’s such
A random thing to cut off water supply let’s move on to day two the worst has yet to come the next day the 5th of December of 2018 at around 10 30 a.m the fraternity members were ready to continue with the climax of the tortra ceremony they woke up the three pledges they
Gathered everyone into their cars and they started leaving the city into a small neighboring town one of the fraternity Brothers his family owned a small cabin there and it’s about an hour outside the city and it’s just surrounded by a thick forest which is perfect for hiding secrets
Before they get to the cabin though the group had to make multiple pit stops now keep this in mind they stopped at at least two different places they drove an hour to the cabin and you’re telling me after the events of last night not once did a single one of the 18 full-grown
Adults say hey guys now that I’m thinking about it maybe this sounds a little dangerous maybe we should tone it down maybe we should ease off a little bit someone could get really hurt like not a single one of them not once during one of their pit stops they
Actually ran into a professor who was out on their day out and let’s call her professor B she recognized the group as being students from the University and as being members of the fraternity and one of the pledges seemed to be in need of help she said that sonda wasn’t behaving normally
The other two pledges were fine but sonda seemed extremely out of it kind of like a zombie like he wasn’t fully present he could barely walk on his own and she approached them and asked if everything was okay she looked at Sanda and she was alarmed enough that she straight up told the
Group I’m gonna call the police wow but they all turned on their charm and said Professor B like The Hazing ceremony is almost done he’s just a bit drunk and shocked but we’re gonna go celebrate now and we’re gonna sober him up he just needs a cold bath
The group completely dismissed her and ignored her concerns even though Santa could barely walk he had to be supported by other frat members to even move around so the professor B does nothing and at this point the group is like oh maybe we should split up into two groups because
People really think that Santa’s gonna die or something so one group continued their way to the cabin taking the three pledges with them and the other group made their way to run the rest of the errands what kind of error do we know they went
To a pet store to buy fish life goldfish eels live eels bird food cakes live mice cat food dog food after that they went to a foreign Supermarket where they bought knowingly or unknowingly they bought the murder weapon a gallon of fish sauce fish sauce is often used in Asian
Cuisine and it’s to put it simply it’s similar to Soy Sauce but it’s not okay it’s not you cannot replace soy sauce with fish sauce and vice versa but the general concept is the same if you want to get technical with it it’s kind of an ingredient that you don’t use too much
Of it’s very high in sodium but it does add this great Umami flavor to a lot of dishes the sodium aspect is very important in today’s case so let me give you some context people when they use soy sauce or fish sauce you don’t use a lot it’s like tiny
Bit it’s almost how you would season things with salt use a little bit and adds that oomph one tablespoon of fish sauce has about 1 670 milligrams of sodium which is about 70 percent of the recommended daily sodium intake one tablespoon but again fish sauce is not something
That you sip or drink you use it sparingly to season dishes you’re not putting in a lot they bought a gallon sized bottle of fish sauce this would last an Asian home months this is like Asian restaurant style level gallon size that’s crazy they bought duck eggs sardines baby
Clams shrimp paste mussels and a bunch of other things and after their shopping spree the remaining members joined the others at the cabin at around 12 pm and once they arrive The Hazing activities immediately began the initiates were made to dig three pits into the ground
One each right next to each other until they formed so they’re like basically digging their own Graves and then in the end they were forced to dig the graves together so it’s one big ditch yeah and that text messages were shared between fraternity members phones and one frat member who wasn’t present at
The cabin texted hey how’s it going over there guys updates to which a fraternity brother responded newcomers are starting to shovel Santa is already for the trash meaning like he’s already for the rubbish bin that’s a figure of speech saying he’s trashed um like he’s not doing well is that what
It is yeah the other two are still okay so let’s get into what happened the rest of the day before sonda ended up in the emergency room this is the story that police have pieced together with deleted videos and very limited evidence unfortunately I don’t think that we will
Ever know the full truth of what went down in that Forest for hours the three initiates were ordered Into the Now one giant ditch as they huddled together to stay warm the other fraternity members a total of 18 young adult men stood around the ditch and filled it with ice water and live
Eels this is December in Belgium the temperatures were easily 30 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit this is so reckless and so incredibly dangerous you cannot tell me that they’re like there’s premeditation involved you cannot tell me that this is just hazing but don’t worry the group was smart
Enough to know that the pledges would eventually need warmth so what do they do if you were cold they would urinate on the pledges to keep them warm sand at this point was so dehydrated and still drunk from last night even if he wanted to get up and walk away he
Physically could not there was a recovered video of Santa lying in a ditch and it’s unclear when this day was but fraternity members can be heard saying sonda come on sonda try and use those legs those feet come on move man the boys are asking him to stand but he
Is so unconscious that two of the group are trying to get him up he is not capable of even standing up on his own I can’t imagine that they didn’t already know that he couldn’t quit even if he wanted to he couldn’t say he couldn’t do this anymore
It was reported that the official way out of The Hazing ceremony and forfeiting your spot in the fraternity you would have to ring a bell that would be off to the side of the ditch or on the side doing all these hazing tasks members of the fraternity stated
Traditionally during it we set up the bells next to the water hole so that they can ring them at any point if they can’t take it any longer whoever was in charge of setting up the Bell allegedly forgot the Bell so for Sanda there was no physical identifiers of Freedom Escape there was
No way out there was no way he could physically get up nobody was listening to him it was chaos no he couldn’t even speak well there wasn’t even a bell that he could try and reach for to symbolize guys I’m not okay everyone knew that he was not okay and
He was at the mercy of 18 fraternity brothers and for hours he was tortured in that ditch until the sun began to set the theorized events seemed to suggest this once the pledges were in their ice cold baths a question game began if pledges got the answer correct they
Would be rewarded with a sip of water or a Gatorade or an energy drink to get them pumping however if they got it wrong they would have to eat or drink something disgusting it’s not clear exactly what Santa consumed during this part of The Hazing task but from later
Records for the most part they were forcing him to consume large amounts of fish sauce and their urine some Reports say semen was also involved back to The Hazing after that reportedly the fraternity members took live eels and threw them into the water and the pledges were sitting with all these eels
That were just running around them they yelled at the pledges to catch the eels with their bare hands and then bite their heads off and swallow the decapitated heads it is said all three pledges made it through that task hours passed by and at the time 7 PM
Came around they had been sitting in the freezing temperatures for over six hours the group wasn’t even close to being done the next task involved goldfish live goldfish the task was to swallow the live goldfish whole alive then drink a ton of fish sauce and attempt to throw up the Goldfish whole
It is known that super salty things and super disgusting things can make you gag and throw up if you’re repulsed enough so the other two pledges they were able to throw up and produce their whole gold flesh like bring it back out of their stomach the only one left was Sanda and
Instead of the fraternity Brothers letting it go they made him continue drinking fish sauce at this point sonda was throwing up repeatedly but every time there was no goldfish so need I remind you he’s not winning the question games he hasn’t had probably a sip of water in the past 24
Hours he’s Beyond drunk dehydrated throwing up which leads to further dehydration and being forced to consume copious amounts of fish sauce which the sodium count on that it’s not even a drink you’re not even supposed to consume it like that it’s like being forced to consume tablespoons of just salt straight up
You can’t tell me that no one thought that that’s dangerous you can’t tell me that these are just boys being boys and they didn’t know how far this was gonna go you just can’t tell me that I think in middle school I would have put two and two together
I think anyone capable of reading a nutrition label and realizing oh that is quite a bit of sodium right especially these University students I think even without the nutrition label the scent of fish less alone indicates that this is high in sodium the fact of the matter is
They knew what they were doing I mean that’s my personal opinion they turned off the water there they were giving out water as prizes sips of water were prizes that suggests to me that they know the pledges are incredibly dehydrated on top of these tasks of vile mutilations of live animals and
Torturous conditions for the three pledges the senior members were also kicking them in the back harassing them and of course urinating on them later a deleted video uncovered by forensic text during the investigation would show that one of the members had actually defecated on one of the pledges
It is unclear who it was it is unclear if they defecated into the pit or they actually physically defecated on the pledge but either way what this went on the entire day till the sun set and the next phase of tasks would proceed the pledges had not consumed anything
But alcohol and mutilated pets reportedly one of the pledges not the sober Brothers the pledges tried to give Sanda a soda so he could ideally get his blood sugar up and hopefully must drop some energy a senior fraternity member stopped him and said that’s against the rules the next phase included serving each
Pledge their first meal one sausage each however each sausage was coated in toothpaste and they were forced to eat this and endure 10 more buckets of ice water thrown at them in the pits as well as a firework that had been thrown into the pit where the pledges were sitting in
The urine feces covered water it was around this time the other two pledges again not the brothers pledges the ones that were also being tortured stepped in to check on unsanda he was barely conscious they pulled his body out of the pit next to the campfire and
Sonda was cold to the touch I mean any warmth was completely devoid as his skin was all pale the two pledges and a few senior members laid him on the ground and they changed him so that he was in a pair of dry clothes they were the first to intervene
At Santa’s rough state the other pledges put him on a plastic trash bag kind of like a tarp and moved him to one of the cars where they turned on the heater but they only kept him in there for so long they moved him back next to the
Campfire possibly because it was easier to get warmer faster next to a fire what were the other fraternity Brothers doing like the 18 Brothers the sober ones they would actually take pictures of sonda while he was unconscious a recovered photo later would show Santa lying in the weeds completely passed out
And in a fetal position meanwhile the senior Brothers took it upon themselves to begin the next task in the hazing they’re not done the pledges were allegedly forced to bite off the heads of live mice and swallow them so while the senior members are preparing for this next round of
Hazing tasks a couple more of the brothers began to notice how bad of a state Santa was in so they finished the little live mice thing and sonda was still ice cold his face was pale and now he was like completely unresponsive there was no way he was even responding to anything
They’re saying they may sound to do the mice yeah this was when 20 year old sandadiya began to make very horrible noises he was groaning in pain like it was slow it was torturous whatever he was feeling on the inside so what happens when you take a lot of
Sodium it’s not just your tummy hurts or you’re in desperate need of water your brain starts to swell and the pressure in your skull feels like it’s gonna explode and that’s actually what kills you when you overdose on sodium it’s not because your stomach is like ooh ouchy so much
Sodium your brain pressure literally your brain’s gonna shut down imagine if someone is taking like a helium tank and just inserting it into your ears and turning it up imagine the pressure that would cause your organs the rest of your organs are starting to shut down your brain is starting to shut down
He was clearly in a lot of pain and at 8 57 pm on the 5th of December one of the senior fraternity members finally called Emergency Services dispatch confirmed yeah you should probably take him to the hospital if he’s unresponsive Stuff okay our friends just kind of laying here gurgling and he’s not making any noises which makes it seem like they took action right but it’s important to note that it was two hours in between Santa being unresponsive that they finally took him to the emergency room
Reportedly he was also bleeding from his mouth and nose probably due to the pressure They Carried him to the car to transport him and reportedly they threw his unconscious body into the trunk the trunk not the passenger seat where the heaters could help warm him up
They didn’t put him in the back seat or laid him across their laps nowhere where he could get warm nowhere where they could keep an eye on him to make sure that he’s not choking or stops breathing I mean isn’t that what good friends do like isn’t that what good people do
Let alone a friend let alone someone you know I imagine if I saw a stranger in that state I would not put them in the trunk who puts anyone in the trunk except serial killers like who yeah yeah it’s so and this is this part really gets to
Me because later in the trial they these monsters keep crying and saying we’re so sad our friend died you put your friend in the trunk if that’s the type of person you consider a friend like who are you you’re a horrible person I don’t even know what to say
On the drive to the hospital the boys in the car with sonda in the trunk had reportedly been talking about the final stages of The Hazing and how they would continue once he got out of the hospital at 9 15 PM the group finally arrived sandadia was pulled out of the trunk and
Handed off to emergency medical staff at the doors of the ER he would never make it out alive because medical staff didn’t know exactly what happened and can’t read minds and they can only function and work to treat symptoms in situations that you informed them of the group just
Dropped him off and didn’t let them know about anything didn’t let them know about The Hazing the alcohol the lack of water the raw meat in his stomach not the cups and cups of fish sauce nothing sandadiya didn’t even stand a chance without the extra information from the
Fat members doctors had no idea about the things that he had consumed had the fraternity members told them maybe sonda would have a chance maybe they would realize it was sodium the only things in Santa’s bloodstream were hard liquor and salt that was it like literally that’s it
There was literally nothing else in his system within 45 minutes sonda was transferred to the University Hospital of Antwerp where it was a bigger better equipped hospital this was when the doctors finally discovered the extremely high salt content in his bloodstream they also discovered that sonda had suffered
A cardiac arrest that sent him into a coma but this was also when Sanda Dia the 20 year old University student went into multiple organ failure his organs were shutting down one by one his parents were alerted of the condition and as the family rushed to be by their son’s side the fraternity
Brothers rushed out they rushed out and they got to cleaning they won’t clean up after a party but apparently they’ll clean up a crime scene senior members ordered the other members to clean up the whole cabin in the surrounding area this included getting rid of all and every piece of evidence
They filled up the water holes with dirt to cover them up they also went back to their frat houses to clean up the rooms of Nutella ketchup that they turned on the water supply that they had cut when the police went back to the campsite they would find absolutely nothing it
Was as if nothing ever happened they also deleted all pictures videos and messages that they had on their phones that could be incriminating and thankfully these were recovered by investigators later on and side note while Sanda was being driven to the hospital other fraternity members tried to get the remaining two
Pledges to finish their hazing so the last stage of the initiation was for the pledges to lie naked in the forest for a few more hours however at 10 39 PM the other two pledges were also hospitalized there are very few details on what happened to them but we do know that one
Spent about a day in there and while the other one was held for about two days in the hospital they too were victims and then Sandra’s body could no longer hold up he passed away in his last moments he was tortured abused and forced to mutilate animals
And he just endured so much pain his parents wouldn’t get to hear him say I love you one last time they wouldn’t get to see him smile one last time instead the fraternity members had waited so horrifically long to take him to the ER that he was already
Unresponsive and in a coma by the time that they arrived at 20 years old The Bachelor and Masters first generation University student sandedia passed away a Coroner’s report would confirm that toxic salt levels caused by the excessive consumption of fish sauce was the leading cause of his death
The hospital notified the police and an investigation was quickly started the medical staff informed the parents and the police of the group who had brought Santa into the ER and according to the police report the Netherlands police arrived at the Log Cabin that morning December 6 2018 there were no ditches no
Pits found nothing the cleanup was good and while sonda was fighting for his life in the hospital the police would later find records of WhatsApp messages that painted a very clear picture of all the cleanup people were in the group chat of the fraternity saying things like delete
Everything clean up the dorms turn the water back on should we delete WhatsApp totally I mean this had to happen at some point we really just are wild monkeys with that hazing ceremony aren’t we how can salt overdose be so brutal that’s salt did the parents find out what happened
So they seem to know that sound as condition is grim and the chances of him making it alive are low but even then the way that they’re chatting about it seems rather casual just like yeah they said it’s salt overdose how can salt be that dangerous
Man we really are just too crazy with this hazing aren’t we it had to happen at some point thankfully forensic science had just absolutely skyrocketed regarding technology and of course the police were able to seize the boy’s phones throughout the investigation and pull from these deleted photos and videos
Proof of the events that had occurred that night and I’m going to list the evidence piece by piece and it’s rough investigators were able to discover photos with timestamps that proved that sonda had been laying on the ground in a fetal position for almost two hours before being taken to the emergency room
It is unknown if sonda would have survived had he received treatment Within These two hours but it feels like the group took away any chance of his survival seven hours earlier one of them commented that Santa was ready for the trash bin which usually means they are
Not okay they are Beyond not okay investigators also found from their interrogations that it was tradition that at the end of The Hazing ceremony all pledges are required to prove their loyalty to the club by sniffing a line of white powder they all saw it was going to be flower
But something tells me it was going to be cocaine other texts from the WhatsApp that were publicized included oh no I’m really going to pay for this aren’t I this came from the president and the pledge Master of the fraternity another message expressed concern that the parents of the other two pledges would
Start a legal case against them other evidence revealed that sonda fell hard a few times head on when he was forced to walk clear indication that he suffered from some sort of head trauma in addition to the two days of torture the police also found a disgusting video
On one of the brothers phones dated a month a month after sonda died a month after because they weren’t arrested so a month after sonda died the a few of the brothers the fraternity Brothers approached a black man without a home on the street one of the boys holds out
Change as the man nods acknowledging like thanking them for placing the change on his jacket that was folded on on the ground three places and then an arm reaches out into the frame to try and grab The Man Without a home’s hat off his head they’re just terrorizing a man without a
Home on the street and he kind of dodges because what are you doing right and while these events are taking place the boys sang the lyrics cut their hands the Congo is ours this is in reference to the fact that a former king of Belgium sought out
Territory in Africa they took control of land on the banks of the river Congo which is present-day the Democratic Republic of Congo it’s estimated that the Belgian king killed 10 to 15 million Africans he forced the residents to work for free and when they didn’t meet their
Daily quotas he cut off their hands a month after sonda died this is what they’re doing to a black man on the street this is what they’re doing to a black man in general this is they filmed it because they thought it was I don’t know funny
They were proud of themselves does that show intend though you think that’s they can use that or no it wasn’t able to be used fully but to netizens I mean it’s clear intent you know I did see some people that argued is race really a part of this is race
Not a part of it it was a part of it are you kidding me right now so much evidence is coming out however it should be noted that the investigation would take a long time the group they were less than Cooperative so the police had to constantly meet their resistance with
Warrants court orders the group had connections and if they didn’t they had Daddy’s Money in fact after news spread of sanda’s death a secret meeting was held at the home of a father to one of the 18 men who happened to be a well-established well-connected attorney
A new kind of pact was created a new secret society of sorts if you will between the Haves and the have-nots we can never really know the conversations held in that emergency meeting but we can speculate and I imagine that they made some sort of pact
They were sworn to secrecy and they were told if we do this we can get away with it I think that this story I’m about to share gives you a clear picture on what kind of parents we’re dealing with some say out of remorse some say out of
Fear some say out of sheer stupidity in a strange pivot there was a conversation amongst the fraternity members to send a Lotter a letter to sanda’s parents reportedly the fraternity members and some of the parents they wanted to at least attempt to do one right thing by apologizing and telling sonda’s parents
That they were also experiencing their worst nightmare which like what kind of apology is that but the lawyer slash father that seemed to be leading this whole discussion crushed the idea said that if they legally incriminate themselves they would absolutely do no such thing and the rest of the parents instead of
Thinking no this is an opportunity to really teach my kid a lesson in life to make them learn and I mean I don’t think they can ever come back from this but to try and be a good person from now on or handle this like a good person
Would instead of doing that they were like oh yeah you’re right we don’t want to legally incriminate ourselves never mind forget apologizing to anyone’s parents the rest of the parents and group quickly agree to prohibit any of them from communicating with the police sonda’s parents and practically the outside world they also disappeared
Online they disappeared from Facebook Instagram and even LinkedIn from here on out they would only be speaking through their attorneys you would think that none of that would matter though because at this point a 20 year old bright college student died and his autopsy exposed two days of torture
That he had an abuse that he had experienced you would think that the police and the government and the netizens they wouldn’t care about some hush-hush meeting amongst 18 Rich families the evidence was right there and you would think that they would investigate the allegations of racism after finding out about previous racial
Incidents and even after that racial incident and just the sheer fact that Santa was one of the two black students in the whole 77 long history of the fraternity and he died you would think that people would care right five years passed and somehow the 18 men
Who stood by and subjected him to the torture to almost War crime level torture they continued to evade Justice and it’s not like the Press didn’t know about the story news spread about the black pledge that had died at the hands of 18 white men but the news articles never mentioned
Race they chucked his death up to a horrible accident that occurred during hazing I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the families had a role in the framing of The Narrative of this case allegedly however the school did state that they will be holding an internal disciplinary
Hearing for the members of the incident at first they stated that all members all 18 men would be suspended from the University they did not do that instead they replaced the suspension with get this 30 hours of community service each and an essay on the history of hazing
Crazy this is like how you punish a kid that’s skipping class yeah stole a cookie from the cookie jar I’d rather them not do anything at all like this is a slap in the face like the fact that they’re doing this and being like this is enough for someone’s life
This is enough to teach them a lesson about killing someone they get to slap in the face the University was essentially hey don’t do that in order to teach you not to be racist and kill people why don’t you write an essay the boys were allowed back to school
They were allowed to continue their education they were allowed to work towards graduating something that they had stolen from sonda something Sanda had worked so hard for essentially it seemed like the school was standing by the group which is ironic because the university self-advertises themselves as quote the home to a tradition of
Academic excellence and ethical Integrity that serves as the backbone of everything we do side note did I I don’t think I mentioned this the school actually knew about the racial incident that happened two months prior to Santa’s death in the party room where they were calling sonda
The hard n-word they knew about that a few administrators were told by the employee that worked there that was also a fellow student and they didn’t do anything about it thankfully other teachers heard of the news and they decided to do something 20 University professors wrote an open letter demanding stronger punishments
For the group the school said that they would open another investigation into the case but the results were Grim they took like three years to investigate it most of the members had already graduated at this point after three years only seven of them were still in school and they were finally expelled
But maybe that just goes to show how much power these families held most of the parents were established lawyers one of the group’s dad was a very high up judge and many people firmly believe that the 18 members got such light punishments because they all came from very wealthy
And influential families and the case wouldn’t even be seen by the court system until the end of 2020. they even had to go to a neighboring Province for this case because the families had so much influence in that province they’d be like okay there’s no way we’re gonna get a fair trial we
Gotta go we gotta go to a different town the criminal investigation of sandadia’s death concluded in July 2020 with a recommendation that the members would be charged with negligent homicide humiliation and premeditated administration of dangerous substances the judges have evidence of calculated cause in many instances of racism and
Inhumane treatment towards Sanda the 18 members were now scheduled to appear in court to finally start the trial September 4th of 2020 however at the last minute two defense attorneys filed a request for additional investigations they’re like you need to investigate our clients more which is weird right why would they do
That especially in this case it doesn’t make sense it is speculated they did this on purpose as a delay tactic it is important to note the political climate in 2020 the murder of George Floyd sparked one of the greatest and widest spread civil rights movements the world had seen it’s likely the defense
Attorneys wanted to push the trial off until the climate quote quieted down a bit the case did not get attention in 2020 because the trial didn’t happen and it really wouldn’t get that much International attention until 2023 like a month ago after YouTuber acids video now in 2020 people in Belgium really did
Care though it just wasn’t um not that they care more now but I think it just wasn’t spread the story wasn’t spread um a lot of people protested hashtag Justice for sonda was circulating in Belgium on social media and a lot of belgians were worried that these people
Were so well connected and because nothing is happening to them and because the court stated that they are Anonymous throughout the entire trial their names have not been released they can all occupy positions of power in society and in the legal system just like their mothers and fathers
Sanda’s uncle said this was not an accident they thought he’s just some black guy we’re powerful and nothing can happen to us what would have happened if Santa were white eventually the protest died down and everyone held their breaths hoping that Justice would be served the trial would finally commence in 2022
Four years after sonda’s death and people were watching they watched as all 18 men arrived at the courthouse alongside their lawyers they had their hoods up hats shielding their faces every one of them had face masks on the prosecutors pointed out that all 18 defendants were present during the
Goldfish and fish sauce task they stated it is therefore strange to note that none of the defendants questioned the excessive administration of the fish sauce to the pledges who would have been weakened to numb due to the baptismal activities that have been done up to that point in the cold the large bottle
Of four and a half liters of fish sauce had been noticed by every defendant present today none of those present took any action to stop the excessive administration of the fish sauce however there are a lot of infuriating moments in the trial we got to quickly talk about one of the defense attorneys
Stood up and they responded because you know the question was why did sandadia one of the only black people in the entire fraternity why was he killed during hazing and the defense attorney responded it has nothing to do with color and everything to do with physique weight and height basically blaming sanda’s
Death on his own body weight and height another lawyer added my client also wants to be clear Santa Diaz skin color played no role in this file sonda was one of them one of their good friends they did not see his color one of his good friends
Do you do that to one of your good friends do you throw them into the trunks do you torture them for two days straight if not months do you like throw racial slurs at them like one of your good friends right another defense attorney stated there
Was no intention to harm sonda and my client was unaware that the amount of fish sauce the pledges would ingest could be dangerous the purpose of hazing was not to humiliate but to build a bond of friendship by going through a hazing ritual my client now realizes that these rituals are outdated
Side note um I don’t know if people care about this but did you guys know hazing started because of women and gay people what do you mean oh yeah so back then when universities started having fraternities around they were more focused on academics and not saying that
They’re not now but most of them were like academic secret societies of men in universities and it would be all the majors kind of congregating together so business majors would join like a business fraternity and they would all just bond with each other and then in the 20s 1920s women were allowed in
College and people started more men started flocking to fraternities because they hated femininity taking over their campus that’s how they saw it all these women on campus were vile this was no longer a manly institution so they started going to these sacred exclusive men only clubs AKA fraternities right
And they would Escape women that way but then then homophobia came around and people were like wait a group of men young men living together non-stop hanging out with each other sharing Secrets together color coordinating their outfits having secret handshakes that sounds a bit gay to me
So they became obsessed with this hyper masculinity idea and so they started doing hazing almost to show hey we’re so masculine we do these crazy dangerous things to be even part of this group so we’re not gay we’re like the manliest of the men yeah that’s what anthropologists have
Believed so I mean hear me out it’s kind of crazy when you think about it like they were so terrified of women and then gay people so just food for thought and then I think now it’s just been grandfathered in it’s just become a tradition that none of these I’m not
Saying now it’s about homophobia or about misogyny but that’s kind of how it seems to have started it started around the same time so a lot of anthropologists believe it’s because of that now but all that aside back to the trial sanda’s mother also spoke out and she
Said for the past half a decade the five years she feels like it’s on her she wonders why he would take part in a fraternity she feels like maybe she pushed him towards it unknowingly or maybe she was too strict or not strict enough or she just constantly guessed
Every little thing that she said to him everything that would have made him feel like he needed to do this the defense attorneys had little sympathy for her they kept arguing that none of the defendants could have known how dangerous fish sauce was they said because it’s readily available
In a store that they can’t be judged for it if you can buy it in a store how are you supposed to know it’s dangerous that’s literally like kind of a logic is that yeah they also pointed out the defendants themselves underwent The Hazing ceremony years before and they
Came out with no health problems which fine but did they mention how much Sanda was forced to drink the other two pledges weren’t even forced to drink as much and then when those arguments grew old the defendants cried about how sad they were that this happened to their good
Friend imagine sonda’s friends and family hearing these guys get up there and cry about how sad they were at the loss of their friend Sandra’s dad responded I heard that my son was your friend everyone knows that’s a lie I’ll tell you why friends don’t let you down
Five years after sonda’s death the court declared all 18 defendants guilty on May 26 2023 all 18 students were each found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and degrading treatment but Justice was not served their punishments came down to 200 hours community service some people got 225 250 or 300 hours of community service tattoo
Oh and they had to pay a fine total fifteen thousand Euros to the family yeah yeah and not that money makes things better but money is something that can try and help that can try and provide therapy for Sunday’s family that can try and do something that can even just
Inflict pain on some of these influential families but fifteen thousand Euros and uh community service it’s also not going to stay on their criminal records They also can stay Anonymous that’s why the YouTuber asset is actually facing jail time right now for exposing their names no way yes
Because legally they’re allowed to stay Anonymous and I just I just want to make it clear the DIA family was not fighting for money in fact the DIA family even came out and said they’re not trying to be spiteful they don’t even want all 18 of them thrown in prison in their lives
Ruined they just want the truth they want to know exactly what happened and why Sanda was the one to die that’s what they wanted but instead they got 200 hours of community service no answers and fifteen thousand Euros and again I’m upset that the court didn’t order more damages to
Be paid it’s not because the DF family wanted more money but like these white rich elitist men were also allowed to remain anonymous without a tainted record and 15 000 Euros it’s yeah yeah they basically got away yeah completely it I don’t the students families have
Also fought to make sure that there’s no criminal record I mean I don’t even know what to say one of the defense attorneys John Mays praised the judge’s decision as being balanced and well reasoned Sandra’s father would later tell a magazine that he believed discrimination was indeed involved he said rusgum is an
Elite Social Club a student club and found out was someone who didn’t fit their mold his dad didn’t have a big yard or a fancy driveway or even a house of his own and Santa just wasn’t good enough for them he called the ruling a slap in the face
He said Sanda did not get the respect he deserves the case started a conversation about racism class Injustice elitism and needless to say there have been National and international public outcries about this case now the Injustice I mean the social injustice the racism the elitism it’s vile there were silent protests and
Demonstrations across Belgium that made its way to the Netherlands protesters stated in Belgium if you take the bus without a ticket you get a higher fine than that another protester stated a man from Antwerp was sentenced to seven months in prison for stealing a pair of sneakers
Two bottles of whiskey and a bottle of cognac worth 125 euros there was another person sentenced to 12 months in prison for stealing offerings from churches a 70 year old woman was sentenced to one month in prison for stealing apples another protester stated Justice is just
Not for everyone in Belgium is it and you’re saying the YouTuber is facing jail time yeah jail he’s facing jail time exactly everyone has in their minds is how would the courts have reacted if the situation had been reversed if a white upper class student had tragically lost their lives
During a hazing ritual inflicted by individuals with a migrant minority background would they have received such a lenient conviction or would they have been painted as these vile animals that ripped this kid apart because that’s what they did and last month after the public outcry the supreme court of justice in Belgium
Is now considering launching an investigation into whether class Justice played a part in this which means that just maybe social media and the demonstrations are going to make an impact yeah and uh meanwhile YouTuber asset is facing two years in jail for even talking about this incident and naming
Some of these perpetrators people find it ridiculous that if he is punished it’ll likely be higher than what the fraternity Brothers received side note freaking crazy like how do you call that Justice like yeah after acid name dropped some of the perpetrators the defense attorney came out to State
People who were not present in the courtroom who have not followed the process who have not been there for days who have not tasted the emotion or have not seen the statement they want to play judge afterwards they want to shout that it was an unjust verdict But Here we are
Now we’re going to play judge ourselves and let people know their name so that they will be followed all their lives come on if you don’t already feel so disgusted a picture also resurfaced during all of this former fraternity brothers were dressed in the KKK outfits in 2007.
And finally with all the backlashism has disbanded but I’m not sure that that’s quite fixing the problem many netizens feel saddened at the Grim reality of racism around the world many believe if Sanda wasn’t a black student he wouldn’t have even thought to join the fraternity
Maybe he wouldn’t felt like he needed to and not only that in the fraternity 70-year history sondo was the second pledge of black or African descent and that isn’t speculated that perhaps for the fraternity quote one was enough for them because they would never have a second official fraternity brother of color
Instead Sanda was tortured to death for two days while the 18 fraternity Brothers subjected him to abuse do you remember Ferry Sunday’s best friend since kindergarten after this he reminisced about his life filled with just memories of Sana they were attached at the hip since they were
Young and he said sonda was my best friend he was my soul mate and I hope that fairy makes it to Japan and I hope that Santa can experience it with him in spirit just like the two promised each other when they were little boys and that is it for today’s episode
Let me know your thoughts I mean this was such a heavy heavy case and I know a lot of people are talking about it online so please let’s talk about this case I think this is something that can really shape Justice going forward in Belgium and just in University campuses around the world
And please stay safe and I will see you guys on Sunday for the Minnesota bye
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