Belgian student finds €9 million gold stash while digging a sewer

Photo credit: Facebook/Dendermonde Local Police For a student with a summer job working on a Belgian building site, “money down the drain” has taken on a whole new meaning. Excavating the trenches for a sewage system, 18-year-old Kobe stumbled across a hidden trove of gold worth an estimated €9 million (£8 million). According to a report by The Guardian, the discovery was made on the site of a former brewery in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, about 19 miles north-west of Brussels. What began as a routine Tuesday morning quickly turned into one of the most remarkable treasure finds in recent Belgian history.A shocking discovery“We suddenly saw something lying there,” Kobe told the Belgian news network VTM. “At first I thought it was €1 coins. So we started digging them up. Then we saw a gold bar. It turned out to be a bit more than we thought.”Kobe and his colleagues were working on the site of a former brewery on Van Langenhovestraat when they made the discovery. The hoard, which includes gold coins, nuggets and numbered bullion bars, was stashed in a bag in a bricked-in cellar wall beneath the grand villa originally built for the brewery’s owner, Theophilus Van Assche, in the late 19th c...