While she was initially supposed to join them in Rotterdam later in the evening, the 49-year-old mother immediately had her car to rush to the Dutch city. “I was able to see him for a moment. He was lying under a tent, rescuers and police were coming and going. They had completely covered Jack, only his head was visible. I saw a smile on his face. It is what comforts me today, somewhere.”
A fireworks enthusiast
Jack, the youngest of 7 children, was passionate about fireworks. According to Renate’s comments in the Flemish daily, he was used to handling this type of machine and it doesn’t matter what people say on social networks. “Jack was very careful when it came to fireworks. And that’s not all: he knew everything about fireworks. He knew all the types of fireworks, knew how often a certain type of firework would explode and how long the fuses would burn Yet we regularly told him to be careful.”
However, the bereaved mother has since raised questions about the rules which have become stricter in recent years. “The government considers normal, friendly fireworks illegal and bans them, which means that these things are bought at the ‘foreign every year and are getting heavier and heavier and what annoys me even more is that these adults are selling these products to children And these children are in turn selling them to other children, including Jack. .And Jack got the bad luck, we suppose, to find in this cargo of shells a mortar bomb by mistake.”
A happy child
To conclude this moving testimony, the interviewer of the Flemish daily recalled the good memories of her child whom she describes as a real clown. “What will I miss most about him? The way he made me laugh with his funny faces and his jokes,” Renate concludes. “He invariably started every sentence he said to me with “mom.” , he was sure mom was listening to it too Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, that’s how it sounded to Jack all day long. I still can’t believe it. that smile on his face is just another one of his jokes and that at any moment he’s going to stand up and say, ‘Come on mom, let’s go home,’” she finishes.
