Sanda Dia: Belgium reckons with verdict over black student's hazing death
Sanda Dia died after being made to consume excessive amounts of fish oil and alcohol in 2018.
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Sanda Dia died after being made to consume excessive amounts of fish oil and alcohol in 2018.
The participants in the 2018 hazing death of student Sanda Dia have been sentenced to community service and must pay a fine, an Antwerp court has ruled. All the defendants were found guilty of assault and battery resulting in death without intent, RTBF reports.
A Belgian court on Friday sentenced 18 members of a college fraternity to community service over the death of a black student during a two-day hazing ritual in 2018.
Sanda Dia, a 20-year-old Black student at the Catholic University of Leuven, died in 2018 after members of an elite fraternity forced him to drink fish oil, swallow goldfish and stand in an ice-filled trench.
Eighteen people implicated in death of Sanda Dia after brutal initiation that included standing in an icy well