Hero of Utrecht tram shooting given posthumous award for bravery

Rinke Terpstra, one of four people killed in a terrorist attack on a tram in Utrecht in 2019, is to be awarded the country’s highest civil award for bravery posthumously. The Erepenning voor Menslievend Hulpbetoon (“honorary medal for charitable help to others”) will be handed to Terpstra’s children by Utrecht mayor Sharon Dijkstra on Friday. “We think it’s a beautiful gesture and and very deserved,” Tepstra’s brother Bauke told the Volkskrant. “My brother always put others before himself,” he said….

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