Sanda Dia was a Belgian student who died in the Antwerp University Hospital in 2018 as a result of a Reuzegom fraternity hazing ritual in Vorselaar when he was aged 20.

The medical doctor and forensic pathologist expert Werner Jacobs told in the Hasselt Court that Dia had several injuries caused by violent acts.

[6] On 5 December 2018,[4] in a woodland cabin in Vorselaar, as part of a hazing ritual, Dia was obliged to drink copious amounts of alcohol before standing half-naked, outside in the cold, in a pool of freezing water and consuming a live goldfish before being forced to throw it back up by drinking dangerous, lethal amounts of fish oil.

[4] A nurse said she had the impression that the young men did not realise how serious his condition was (despite the fact that one of the Reuzegom members present at the hazing was a student in medicine – he however did not assist in helping Dia at any stage).

[4] After the hazing, fraternity members, assisted by parents and ex-members, coordinated the deleting of evidence[4] like text messages and video recordings from their phones and cleaned up the cabin and its surroundings, in an attempt to cover up what had happened.

[13][4] Each of the students was acquitted of other charges, including culpable neglect and administering a harmful substance causing death or illness.

[16] Protests against the sentencing for those that caused the death of Dia, and class-based justice occurred in Leuven, Antwerp, Brussels, Bruges and Ghent.

[18] Public commentary noted that some of the fraternity were the sons of judges and politicians and that their high social class influenced their sentence to be too lenient.