The holidays also rhyme with big departures. Many Belgians travel in the sun, but an accident abroad can be very expensive.In Thailand, a compatriot injured on a motorbike faces a bill of more than 60,000 euros.

“My leg is dead”: disoriented, lying on the asphalt, Jérémy calls his girlfriend. Everything changes in a fraction of a second.He has just been hit at high speed by a motorcycle. With a fractured pelvis and leg, he was rushed to hospital to undergo several operations.

the list of after-effects is very long… as is the 62,000 euro bill. Without payment, the Belgian is kept in hospital, with minimal care and under close surveillance. But the ordeal continues: JérémyS travel insurance, included with his credit card, does not want to intervene. “Suddenly, they stopped everything, supposedly for fraud,” sighs Julie, Jérémy’s sister, who contacted us via the orange Alert yourself button. “I would like to know where the fraud is.I think that there, we don’t know how to defraud with all the evidence there is, with the medical reports, with the photos.»

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