The parents have since been released and the family has been reunited. The shock is still there, you can tell when the father walks into the barn near the house. “It doesn’t feel like myself anymore,” he says.
Rubbish
On the floor of the shed, which is made of sheet piles, there is a lot of junk: gloves, empty soda cans, boxes for hobs, carbon filters and hoses. They are remnants of the drug lab that was built in the barn.
The parents deny any involvement. “We had rented out the barn.” And that’s right, there is a neatly signed lease and the rent was paid through the bank. The tenant is an acquaintance of the family, “An old comrade of our son. We had no reason to doubt. I do feel cheated, yes.”
crazy
They literally don’t smoke. “We didn’t smell anything crazy. And it wasn’t strange that the boy regularly came into the shed, after all he was the tenant.” According to the residents, the tenant, a 21-year-old man from Vroomshoop, would store things there to clean stables. “We couldn’t look inside, because there was no window.” The only key was given to the tenant.
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Nevertheless, the parents taken on tuesday to the detention center in Borne and interrogated. “We mainly had to wait until the DNA test was completed,” says the father of the house. “There were so many cans from which material had to be compared.” In the meantime, there was nothing to do but wait for days. “To drive you crazy.”
Suspects
The parents have now returned home, but are still officially suspects. “It will also take some time before we have lost that stamp. I don’t expect that before the end of the investigation.” They are full of questions. “Who actually cleans up that mess?”
The police say that the tenant of the shed has now also been released. The investigation continues. For example, it still needs to be investigated which drugs would be made in the lab.
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