Hazed to Death by an Elite Social Club: The Tragic Story of Sanda Dia

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Thank you so much for clicking this video & taking the time to hear Sanda's story. Reading your comments has been lovely, I can feel how much this case means to so many of you. Though due to legal reasons, any comments mentioning the perpetrator's real names in this case will have to be deleted. We hope this video can continue to shed light on Sanda's story & the injustices he faced.❤

Literally fucking disgusting !!

Now flip it 1 white guy and 18 black ones.what do u think would have been the outcome.

Google is amazing. Dr. Philippe De Geest

His sodium was probably so elevated due to how dehydrated he was from not having water and the amount of alcohol he drank

Poor baby RIP

This is my BIGGEST fear in life. That I raise my children to the very best of my ability, pouring everything into raising them right, only to have someone snuff out their lives much too soon. Rest in peace Sanda, will hopefully meet you in heaven one day ❤❤

Horrible of all those people doing black face like that. So so so ignorant they are.

i've never heard of this horrifying case before, but thank you so much for shedding light on it, eleanor. <3 it brings me such pain to think about the amount of injustice surrounding this case..

I'm Belgian but moved to the UK 6 years ago and this case is one of the reasons why

Thank you so much for making a video about this case and for seeking justice for Sanda Dia. Sending love from Belgium!

Ok but why would someone want to be a part of this fraternity? Gross 🤮

Willing to bet the judge and court were racist also

Im just curious on how people found out about what happened that night

Honestly. To read the story as a story of racism does such a disservice to the real problem. You are just not entirely hitting the mark. This has nothing to do with racism. This has to do with elitism and the power of wealthy people. The fact they are akk white is just because(newsflash) in Belgium, THE MAJORITY IS WHITE. Non white immigrants are a very very small minority, and they are also recently new inhabitants of the country. There have been similar cases in the past al throug belgium and the netherlands where the victims were white. You just said yourself that all other initiates also had to go to the hospital, and they weren't
'Black'. Elitarism is to blame.

As a person who has been in a fraternity I just want to say that the punishments this guy went through are beyond normal hazings. This is torture pure and simple. This is interrogation style torture. Like waterboarding. Sure in my fraternity we had to do some chores or drink some stuff. But as far as i know in the netherlands the big fraternities have banned alcohol alltogether as part of the hazing method and always have a bottle of water near them. You don't mess with food or water. Its actually the smaller less prominent fraternities which do this kind of shit, because they feel like they need to show others that they are for real. I kniw of a case in the netherlands where one guy who was black in Groningen had to go around on hands and jnees with a chain around his neck, held by another member, but this guy turned around, sued them, and got them both expelled from the fraternity, and all the people I have spoken to agreed with the decision, as this was even for fraternity standards considered one bridge too far. You shoykd never pick on the individual person, alsways on the group. The only thing food or drink related I had to do(and I was in one of the prestigious ones) was drinking very spicy tomato juice together with my fellow initiates in a short span of time, or we had to eat a plate of sausages in one minute and dump what remained, once the minute past, on our heads. or we had to finish a beer keg with small groul if people, but tgis was already after you were a member. You did it because you liked it, not because it was forced, and ppl were never pushed to the edge physically. Drinking alcohol is one of the dumbest initiation tools ever. You are taking advantage of the people wanting to be members. Its sick, but it is done by smaller fraternitues much more often. You only don't hear about it because they are not so prestiguous or old. In some sense, hazing is an art. You have to really know how to pusb someone without breaking him. I feel much more secure being hazed by a big fraternity with allot of media attention on them, then sime small almost 'friendgroup' of people who dont know what the fck they are doing. Even if hiw they behave is less fraternity like, the forced drinking is a dangerous instrument. While I was drunk once in a smaller shitty fraternity i was so drunk and tired i fell of my chair hitting my head in a concrete floor. These fckers dudnt even knwo how to react or didnt even apilogize. The bigger the fraternity, the more regulated things are, trust me. Its the smalls ones you have to rrally watch out for, uts there you really get 'lord of the fly' scenarios

What do you mean by saying he was 'black'? The way I understand how english and americans use the word black is as someone who is fully subsaharan african. You are using it as being someone with a dark skincolor, right? Because, strictly speaking. He was as white as he was black. He was neither. His mom was "white" and his dad was "black". Why do you give more attention to his "black part" than to his "white part"? Like the way you are telling it you are making it racist. He has a dark skin sure. But that alone doesnt make you odd or not quamifuable. At least in the Netherlands. You have allot of people in fraternities who wouldnt be considered "white". The rule is not that you have to be "white" to succeed. The rule is that you have to be truly culturally integrated, be intelligent, speak fluent dutch, and have a elite mindset. By elite i mean, you have to be a idiosynccratic person; an interesting person.Your skincolor is seen as just another asset of you, just like having a big nose, or being from a certain region in the netherlands, or being gay, or being sentimental are. You just have to deal with them. Everybody is judged on the way they look. Being of color is not the be all end all. Its just skincolor.

They murdered that boy and walked free. I’m sick 💔

So sad and unfair 😢

This makes me sick and completely fucking furious

Thanks Ellie😊

This is messed up. All of them deserve a lengthy prison sentence.

hard watch 😢😢

I think this is the most frustrating case you’ve ever covered, thanks for bringing it to light. Hopefully Sanda and his family (and the other two victims of the hazing) get the justice they deserve in future! Nothing like this should happen again 😢 these societies are disgusting. Money and race shouldn’t ever determine a get out of jail free card. Go Acid, but his punishment is a joke! Some higher powers in Belgium really need to review this case…

One day they will stand before God's judgement.

Hi! Since I don't know many of the cases you've covered - I always liked watching your videos - but I could never really grasp the quality of your videos without doing extensive research myself. Watching this video, as a Belgian KU Leuven student, I'm amazed by how fully and acurately you've covered this case (to my knowledge). Thank you for bringing awareness of injustices like Sanda's story to a bigger public!

The defending arguments are bs, those were basically grown men. One of them is getting trained to be a doctor, the others probably going on to work with the justice system and thats how they treat someone they were supposed to protect? Its disgusting how racism is still such a huge issue and is still taking innocent lives. And the parents are just as disgusting for defending their murderous children. They should all go to prison for the rest of their lives cause if it was the other way around the colored offenders would get hunted down. This is one of the hardest things ive listened to as a black woman. These animals need to be stopped

You’re amazing for bringing up the history between Congo and Belgium !

Its is a student club and he was babtist at the club it is tradition for evry student club you have to be babtist to be part of the club oke so next time get you info strait btw we are rasits i think that the USA en the UK have there fair share in rasim so dont pretend that we are the rasists and everything you say about us making imagrands imposible to live hire we do more for imagrands than other countreys and shut up about our tarditions zwarte piet is not a black man he is a with man who works as a chimny swiper he is the friend off sinterklaas and helps him bringing joy to the kids and the highest universety in Belgium is UAntwerp

this is so horribly sad and awful

This is why I don’t mess with rich people.

just for anyone wondering!! too much salt in the blood, or hypernatremia, is a result of dehydration. consuming alcohol dehydrates the body (dehydration causes most of the symptoms of a hangover) and then with Sanda not being given any water, the effects were only compounded. as for fish oil, its generally not considered dangerous (just gross). in high doses it can cause blood sugar to spike, but really that's only a big concern if someone is diabetic, and can act as a blood thinner, which can cause increased risk of bleeding, but i don't know how quickly something like that would set in. the main thing is that fish oil can be very high in vitamin A, and it is possible to get Vitamin A toxicity, which actually has a lot of the same symptoms as being blackout drunk :(

This world is repulsive

I find it weird how there’s some racism in Belgium towards blacks yet The Belgium National Football Team literally full
of Black Players like: Onana, Lukaku, Axel Witsel, Tielemens and Jeremy Doku..that’s almost an entire squad.

The fact they basically got the same punishment I got for bringing a VAPE to high school is disturbing asf.

As a mom this breaks my heart

Am so sorry I won’t stop fighting for my son this makes me so mad 😡 this case made me so mad I can’t believe he still hasn’t got justice ❤️‍🩹 rip

Girl its all the rich people doing the most fucked up things in the world and they always get away with it. Its crazy to me people arent rioting over this

thank you so much for covering Sanda’s case! it’s disappointing that they basically got away with it :(

Hazing is stupid and should be totally banned and outlawed. 😢

I’m in college and our university has a no hazzing of any kind policy !

Too much power and not enough morality… great quote that describes fraternities!!!

Not only do I want to know and hear about this amazing boy I want to know all of the names and identities of every single one of the 18 boys , let’s let them know what they did won’t be forgotten and a price needs to be paid. Rest in absolute peace beautiful boy ❤ fly high ❤

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Wow, this might be one of the most disgusting miscarriages of justices I've listen to. Absolutely vile 😡😡😡

Hazing is completely prohibited at my uni and any club who attempts it will find themself in serious trouble

Not gonna lie, but when You told at the beggining about putting this poor boy in ice cold water for hours itself reminded me about the "experiment" on humans that nazis did in Auswitz camp. And later when You told about them wearing kkk gowns and "friend Adolf" i felt sick to my stomach 🤢🤮