(Local) Two years after their daughter Maïlys died in the April 2017 terror attack on Drottninggatan, Stockholm’s main shopping street, the Dereymaeker family continue to grieve.
“We wake up in the morning thinking of our daughter and when we got to bed, we’re still thinking of her,” Erik Dereymaeker told Sweden’s TT newswire in his first interview with the Swedish media since losing his daughter.
“It’s still just a question of surviving. That hasn’t changed.”
Maïlys, a 31-year-old psychologist, was visiting friends in Stockholm in April 2017, when she was caught beneath the wheels of the truck hi-jacked by terrorist Rakhmat Akilov, leaving her toddler son without a mother.
Two years on, Dereymaeker and his wife Cinta Dereymaeker-Fauville say they feel that Sweden and Stockholm had not done enough for the relatives of victims.
