The security guard at the entrance to what was once the Heysel Stadium refuses to let me through to the spot which commemorates the death of 39 football fans.
It’s after finding an open gate elsewhere I reach the memorial stone which is a disgrace and an insult to their memory.
Blink and you’d miss the small, insignificant granite plaque affixed to one of the stadium’s vast, red-brick exterior walls, where the names of those who were crushed to death here in the Heysel Disaster, 40 years ago on Thursday, are being weathered away.
Roberto Lorentini, a young doctor, died trying to save a child’s life.