‘NEVER FAIR’

OOSTNIEUWKERKE, Belgium — Mourners packed a local church or wept in the rain in a quaint town square at the Saturday funeral for a Belgian victim of lower Manhattan’s truckdriving terrorist.

The 3,000 residents of Oostnieuwkerke gathered sadly for the farewell to beloved hometown fixture Ann-Laure Decadt, 31, who left for a New York vacation barely two weeks earlier.

“This is Belgians weeping for Belgians and weeping for the world, for New York,” Wim Opbrouck, a well-known Flemish actor and singer, told the Daily News.

Decadt (photo), a popular figure in the town two hours west of Brussels, died thousands of miles from home when ISIS-inspired killer Sayfullo Saipov killed eight in a Halloween truck attack.

“She was enthusiastic,” friend Evelyn Kindt told The News during a Friday wake. “She was a really warm person ... It’s just not fair.

“It’s never fair to anyone who loses someone.”

Widowed husband Alexander Naessens struggled with emotion as he spoke about his wife and their two sons — one 3-month-old.

Decadt had made him the “happiest man in the world” — but was now a victim of how “modern wars” are waged, he said. 3, the other a

Naessens noted the funeral fell on Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I. Nearly 100 years after the so-called “war to end all wars,” he noted, the world remains plagued by violence.

Decadt’s mother and two sisters, who escaped the terrorist attack unharmed, huddled quietly with relatives.

The family put out a message of peace and hope that those affected by the killing in New York would not respond with hatred.

The death of Decadt was a reminder to the country of the terrorist threat at home — the worst last year’s Brussels airport and subway attack that left 32 dead.

Debora Huyghe, whose 21-year-old son Bart Migom was among the victims, traveled to Oostnieuwkerke from her nearby home in a show of solidarity with Decadt's family. Each terrorist attack, said, brings back her pain. she

“For me and my family and for all the other families, it’s grieving again and reliving everything again,” she said.