INTERVIEW. Leen Desmyter (49), wife of Flemish minister Wouter Beke: “Did I shed tears? Yes, of course ”| Inland

Since the outbreak of the pandemic a year ago, politicians, experts and medical personnel have suddenly found themselves on war grounds. To exorcise a phenomenon that has still not been exorcised. It became a war of attrition of which they could never have imagined how hard it would be. But who assisted them? Who could they count on all along? And how did their neighbors deal with what was going on? Our journalist Annick Grobben talked to the silent forces behind the front line. Today: Leen Desmyter, wife of Wouter Beke.

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