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    Una donna francofona chiama i servizi di emergenza per aiutare un uomo ferito nella foresta di Sonian, ma le è permesso parlare solo olandese


    Una donna francofona chiama i servizi di emergenza per aiutare un uomo ferito nella foresta di Sonian, ma le è permesso parlare solo olandese

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    1. Isotheis on

      Bruh, even when I’m calling in Mons they give me a language option. What happened to the language laws?

    2. QuantumPlankAbbestia on

      A few years ago a Portuguese speaker, a tourist, had lodged a complaint because 112 wouldn’t answer him in English and repeatedly hung up on him asking that he speak Dutch.

      He had written about this on here but I don’t know if the complaint got anywhere.

      As someone who was a first responder, not on ambulances but still, I can’t imagine deciding to work or volunteer in such services and being so rigid. The aim is to help. Or isn’t it?

    3. Mofaluna on

      > “Een Vlaamse 112-alarmcentrale heeft het Nederlands als administratieve taal. Het is dus normaal dat de operator de beller in het Nederlands te woord staat”, zegt Dermaux.

      So now tourists and expats are not allowed to call the emergency services anymore in dunghill flanders?

    4. Ezekiel-18 on

      That’s why N-VA/VB (same thing) voters and members shouldn’t be allowed to work for emergency services.

    5. Emhashish on

      Someone tell me right now where to send angry emails and calls to, unacceptable!

    7. zexxo on

      I’m all for protecting our language, but this is criminal behaviour.

    9. booia on

      The operator chooses to speak Dutch. It’s pure civil service mentality.

    11. Borderedge on

      I have had a similar thing happen in Germany. I had to call the firemen on 112 in German as another person, a fellow campus student, called in English and they hung up on him.

      Unfortunately it doesn’t happen only here but it’s absolutely infuriating when it does – I really hope they trace the call and kick this person out for good.

    12. EnvironmentalEbb628 on

      The person picking up the emergency call is morally responsible to try and help, they should be held accountable for stupid stunts like this one. Can you imagine how this woman must have felt? The stress of finding an injured person who had lost consciousness only to have some bastard on the line who is apparently okay with risking a person’s life to “make a point”! I’ve seen better service at Mac Donald’s!

    13. Tman11S on

      Is this another great NVA invention to cull the non Dutch speaking population? Speak French and you’ll just have to die?

    14. WalloonNerd on

      They normally transfer people to another 112 station, Liège can for example transfer to someone in Hasselt if they have nobody on site who speaks Dutch. That person in the other center will help with the translations. Namur tends to call Brussels when in need, etc. The person who has handled this call is really committing criminal negligence.

    15. GentGorilla on

      Guess what the result would be with the languages reversed.

    16. StoirmePetrel on

      I feel bad for that poor Flemish person persecuted by that awful woman calling emergency in her own language to try to help someone else. I hope they can recover from this.

    17. shadowsreturn on

      I worked for telenet helpdesk for a month. Telenet only available in Flanders so noone asked if we spoke French.. But after a month, i knew most technical terms in French just because i had to help some French speakers.
      So it’s not a matter of ability, it’s not wanting to help. Or maybe some rule saying to let them die if they don’t speak Dutch. Some helpdesk.

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