Eight hours of opacity and confusion at the ax ceremony: “If anyone really died, do you think the music will follow?”

On the first day of the ax ceremony, Saturday, Two people died For a structure that fell next to one of the scenarios. These were Berenis Giles Rivera and Miguel Angel Rohas Ernandez, two young photographers of an independent environment. In the two hundred -year park, in Mexico City, almost none of the public studied, and the lack of information was a tonic until the end of the day. The metropolitan authorities confirmed the death of two young people until midnight YLThe mayor of Miguel Idalgo published the statement “Determining the direct suspension of activity.” Despite this, the festival continued with its programming until the concerts entered the morning, the park was closed from the brands of the suspension.

From the city hall, they guarantee that the event ended, in any case, before planning and that the organizers did not have any resistance. The delay was caused by the complexity of the logistics of “eviction of a place with so many people,” says the representative on the phone. Saturday capacity gathered about 25,000 people. To the question of this newspaper, the festival organization was aimed at a brief statement published the next morning, where they confirm the abolition of the second day of the event planned for this Sunday.

The country will reconstruct the events that occurred on Saturday: from the fall of the roof, which killed two young people who occurred in the middle of the event, until the end of the event, about 1.30 in the morning. About eight hours of opacity and confusion.

The accident occurred at about 5 o’clock in the evening next to the Ax stage, the largest in this edition. On the stage was a meme del -a former member Cafe TacvbaWhen on the side the decoration, which was supported by a kind of forklift, fell on some people from a strong wind.

Hearing begins to run. The lack of a cellular network prevents the flow of information among participants, while security officers in the whole life coincide with something: no one knows anything. “We did not receive any reports,“ I do not bring the radio, they didn’t tell me something, ”“ I am here, I don’t know about things, ”says some employees in this case, the promoter of the event, as well as members of the banking and industrial police (GDP), responsible for ensuring the two hundredth park.

The music is still in the park. Four scenarios continue to accept artists, while participants comment on the messages that they receive. Family and friends write them to ask if they were in order if they saw what happened. “It seems that it has fallen, but I don’t know where,” says one before saving his mobile phone and return his attention to the artist in front of him. Those few who have learned do not give them more attention, they think that if it were something serious, they would have informed them. The scope of the accident is numb. From the city hall they say that they arrived at the scene and began the “verification” procedure of about 19.00. There are some police and civilians at the scene of the accident. What’s happened? Were injured? Neither knows. They simply comment that it has fallen, but they do not give more information.

Edgar Rida is one of the few in the two -hundred -year park that has an idea of ​​what happened. He is also a professional photographer, but this time he became an audience to enjoy the concert. Despite this, I was with colleagues from some media, not far from the scene where the jewelry fell when the news appeared. They ran to see what happened, and saw the structure on the floor, but there were no bodies. He went with ULISES CASTAñeda, a journalist from Today’s chronicleWhich began to record and photograph before the police were excluded.

“Ulysses documented, and GDP members became very aggressive, they asked him to delete photos. I have to protect him, saying: “This is a nozzle, let him make his chamba,” but they also began to attack me, ”says Sadra the next day. Both were accompanied by the park, they took their accreditation and access. With Castanie, they insisted on eliminating the material that he took. In the end, they were able to overestimate when they talked with the festival press manager. After half an hour, news appeared.

After 22 hours, the death of young people was released: the affected ones from the collapse of the structure did not survive. The metropolitan boss, Clara Brugada, publishes a tweet confirming the tragedy. A few minutes later, the Mexican Institute of Social Support (IMSS) reports that Dr. Ruben Lenza was transferred to a general profile hospital, but “They arrived without vital signs.” Until midnight The office of the mayor Miguel Idalgo publishes a statement By announcing that after a “appropriate verification in the two -hundred -year park” they determine the “direct suspension of activity”

With the party at the maximum peak and the great names of artists who are going to imagine themselves, there is no news about this update. Shortly before 23.00, Nathanael Cano is going to give her a concert a few meters from the place where the accident occurred, and people arrived on the Esplanade of thousands of people, not knowing what happened.

One of the police officers in commenting on the safety of the park that these are false news: “These are things that are exaggerated in networks.” But what about Clara Brugada? The police doubt it and is interrupted by the boss: “If anyone really died, do you think that music will follow?”

Nothing stops inside the park, and no one reports about it. A crowd of Korea of ​​runs lying on Nathanael Kano, while another part goes to another stage, an American eagle to testify to Charlie XCX. Powerful electronic music experiences the attention of people and makes them dance while the tension grows. The social networks of the festival are filled with negative comments and ask for explanations.

At a time when the British singer finishes her showChaos grows on social networks. Personnel of legal affairs and civil defense of the Miguel Idalgo City Hall continues in the field of accident. The organizers of the ceremony They did not say anything to the participants. In his social networks there was only a story on Instagram, informing about the fall of the structure, which they wiped in a few hours.

After midnight, again, the personnel of the festival and security services do not know anything. The only ones who say is a girl responsible for collecting garbage. “I think they will cancel it,” he says. And say that he heard little about the accident. The seller of water and beer, almost at the entrance, supports it. “They don’t tell us anything, but it is obvious that this will no longer be done, two children died,” and the head of the stage points. In the end, finally, a police officer confirms this. “All I know is that he is canceled tomorrow.”

“What happened, Paul? Why do everyone send messages to me, asking me, are I in order? ” A young woman tells a security member. He is trying to reassure her, she tells her that there is no problem and that she is going home. Like her, there are many who receive messages and learn about the news for almost one morning. The river of people going to the exit resonates with comments on surprise and unbelief. Almost no one found out about the accident and less about the death of Berenis and Miguel.

Inside the party lasts almost two in the morning, with Simpson Ahuevo, DJ Gigola and DJ Bear in different scenarios, although with very few people. As soon as they finish, the authorities are placing seals of the suspension of actions at the entrance to the two -hundred -year park.

In the afternoon, on Sunday at nine in the morning, the ceremonial organization confirms that the publication of this day is canceled, led by Tyler, the Creator and a mass attack. Instead of music and parties, this place will be a witness from 17:30 on the evening organized by a family, friends and journalists to demand justice for Berenis and Miguel.

This is that the festival closes its twelfth edition, when thousands of people were more angry for how they coped with information than by canceling the event. According to the office of the office of the mayor of Miguel Idalgo, controlled by pan Maurisio Taba, the decorative structure, which caused the event, was originally there and was placed by the organizers of the last minute of the festival, without comprehending the risks. At the moment, the prosecutor’s office in Mexico City has opened a folder for investigation to distinguish responsibilities.