Staden, A 60-year-old landbouwerszoon from Westrozebeke by the court in Ieper sentenced to a partly conditional fine of 1.600 euro. Almost two years ago, ontmijningsdienst Dovo after a complaint to his collection of 1,200 shells in the batter. “I had already collected since my fourteenth shells. Now I lost everything”, mourns Joseph V. still.
A complaint from a collector of war material did Joseph V. the das to. “On a morning, with the police together with Dovo for the door”, looks V. back. “They took all my shells from my loft at the rear and would all pile up them on the driveway. Each projectile was noted and measured. They had a whole day’s work.” Far had the ontmijningsdienst not move, because the house of V. is located a stone’s throw of the depot of Dovo in Poelkapelle. Around the corner reveals the road sign ‘Ontmijningsstraat’ that the war and its ammunition are inextricably linked with the region is connected.
