Ax ceremony: rage and disappointment about the death of Ber and Miguel: “They became victims of negligence, but we should not be martyrs and revise them”

Ber and Miguel Angel met in Fes Aragon, In NezahualcóyotlOne of the UNAM abilities designed to bring the university closer to the periphery. They were in a career for communication and journalism, but it was a couple of years older. She told her about Mr. IndieA small, independent magazine created by several colleagues. This was not a means as such, not traditional, at least. Rather, it was a web site of a group of students who agreed to have a platform to upload their photos, get some visibility and accumulate a portfolio in order to be able to teach at an interview. This was not accused, it was not a job for use, but it was a way to start shooting in a hostile world of journalism and, by the way, get accreditation to cover concerts of your favorite group, you liked it, Festivals such as an ax ceremonyField

That is why, perhaps, it is difficult to understand public opinion what two young photographers have done, who have not yet completed the race, working on the weekend, without collecting, without quoting, without insurance, in musical macropesty, where the organizers weighed even to give them a bottle of water in exchange for free coating. The answer does not have a large riddle: by passion, out of necessity and vice versa. They had two, Berenis Giles River, 28 years old, and Miguel Angel Rohas Ernandez, 26 years old, when last Saturday the ugly wind, which shocked the metal structure, part Atheczo The ceremony, which was delivered by the crane towards the stage. Heavy decoration canceled them. They tried to revive them on stage, but nothing could be doneThe field of the hospital arrived dead.

Since then, a war war has been unleashed, in which the political leaders of the moraine and Pan accuse each other, No one takes on the duties and festival of CallaIntuitive, what will happen. Like ammunition of this battle, the death of Ber and Miguel. His march was sudden and left the feeling of anger between his friends and his family, the feeling of something, which was interrupted early, two unfinished stories. Both modest origin, the working class, tried to break through, as best they knew in a very unreliable profession, especially for independent media.

Some text words with the help of which his friends describe Ber: he was very spontaneous, his laughter was very special when he laughed, he infected you, friendly, very touched, very bright, spoke in Spanish and French Spanish, he always wanted to know about everything, he was always curious if you were always there, very loyal, very real, he always knew about his friends, he always knew about his friends. All. Incredibly, he asked for something mutually, he put his friends and family in front of her, she was very hospitable.

In one of the tribute to two young people, a friend close to Miguel Angel grabbed a microphone, and, as he could accept his voice, he said goodbye: “I will never tell him good morning, I can never tell him the problem again, I can never share my projects again, my ideas. They grabbed him by a thousand PEESOS. All.

Ber suffered Mr. Indie From the first days of the project. There he met Veronika Ramos (26 years old), a photographer two years younger than she, who joined the magazine in 2017. freelance And seeing how to move. Ber and Vero loved the same groups, so they coincided at concerts. They became friends when two people usually became friends: “We press. We begin to talk about more personal things, about our problems, our families, our guys, school. “

Miguel Angel was passionate about music. In their social networks, it is rarely possible to find something, which has nothing to do with it. He also liked the comics, it was a cane, and he walked along Mexico City with a camera in tow, looking for sunsets and angles for photographing. He grew up in IztapalapeThe son of an aluminum worker, and his neighbors remember how he got up early to grab the combination with a camera on his shoulder, along the way to Fes. “Maybe he was not the best student, but he was the one who spared him, he was a good boy, I know that my son is happy, although our soul left us,” his father said in UniversalBefore the family asked for “sympathy of the journalistic guild to allow us to travel in complete confidentiality.”

Ber was a very fan Vampire weekend And ParamarThe field when Ramos had one of those sad days, he sang it SufferingHe was a vegan with a field, lived with several dogs and saved animals from the streets to give them for adoption, recalls Brian Reyes (28 years old), his friend and employee in Mr. IndieReyes met her for sure, at the ceremony three years ago. This was his first festival as a photographer, he was lost, and Ber threw the cable. From there they became friends. “As soon as we saw each other at concerts and entered Pit It was a different world for us. We left Pit And we listened to the music outside while we talked. The approach of Ber was what I really liked when I met her. “

Miguel Angel, in addition to life in photography, sought to travel. He only had a year left to finish his journalistic career. After that, I wanted to roll, capture sunsets and corners in other cities. Like Ber, he saved street animals. His father remembered in an interview with Universal As he did in childhood: “He was a very passionate boy in everything, I remember some of his harm with his sister, who put dogs on the street hidden to take care of them, he had four dogs and all his money that he earned, he went to them.” Reyes met him a few months ago: “He was a very pleasant, quiet, kind person, always at the disposal of all his friends.”

Reyes recalls that Ber graduated from his diploma this year and planned to study his career in photography in Paris. “Paris was a dream for her.” Meanwhile, she survived in a company that sold shares that Amazon left. I wrote CopyHe edited the video. From there he paid a rent. The ceremony went, first of all, to see Charlie XCXThe field “Charlie was one of the first artists who uttered what happened, and on Sunday we

The accident occurred at 17.00. The organizers of the festival blocked the information. When the news began to go through the press, they cut out a private Internet network of events so that the participants could not see it. Nine hours after the death of the two photographers, the last lag of the public was still dancing a few meters from the place where they were crushed. The ceremony has not canceled a single Saturday day concert. Sunday He was forced to close him with the authorities of the city hall Miguel IdalgoWhere is the two -hundred -year -old park, the place where the festival was held. Since then, the organizers, the strategy has been silent. Only two messages, one of the cooperative accounts, and the other on Tuesday – Diego Jimenes, the director in which they limit themselves to “regret” the tragedy and guarantee that they cooperate with the authorities.

The death of Ber and Miguel Angel opened a conversation about the unreliability of musical journalists and handling Large organizational companies Like Ocees and Grupo Eco. According to Ramos, he also got acquainted with the press sector who bombed people who knew the victims to get “tears”. Families requested the proximity and respect for the avalanche. Ramos comes to the conclusion: “Ber and Miguel were people and became victims of negligence on the part of the festival, but we should not mart and reconsider them in the networks. I’m already tired that all people are created with the right to comment, that everyone has their own version of facts, and also judge. They have something like that in a change. “