On the finish of final 12 months, Conner Rousseau publicly apologized for “incorrect statements about quite a lot of individuals from the Roma group”. The then occasion chairman of Vooruit distanced himself from politics, however is again at the moment. In ‘Gert’s desk’, present occasion chairman Melissa Depraetere admits that these statements on the time have been racist. “However there’s a distinction with being a racist.”
“Do you then equate Tom Van Grieken, who you imagine is robotically a racist, with Conner Rousseau?”, asks lawyer Walter Damen. Depraetere solutions negatively: “What he did is incorrect, however it’s utterly completely different from what Vlaams Belang does. They discuss depopulation and so forth at each convention.”
She agrees with the truth that as a celebration they may have responded otherwise to Rousseau’s statements. “On reflection, we must always have decided a lot sooner, that is true. However you even have a private reference to the one that you already know will not be a racist.”
