⚫ CROMAÑÓN 20 AÑOS: NEGLIGENCIA, CORRUPCIÓN Y MUERTE

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👉 Reflexiones y testimonios de sobrevivientes de la tragedia de República Cromañón, una noche que dejó una herida abierta en Argentina. El relato conmovedor incluye recuerdos de sobrevivientes y familiares, quienes aún buscan justicia y mantienen viva la memoria de los fallecidos. La tragedia marcó un antes y un después en el país, convirtiéndose en un símbolo del reclamo por seguridad y responsabilidad.  👉 Seguí en #ElNoticieroDeA24

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00:0020 years of the tragedy of the Republic of Cro-Magnon,

00:04the night in which Argentina did not sleep the wounds that remained and remain open

00:10for eternity and the memory of so many boys and girls who stayed there.

00:30We are the people, we are the people, we are the people.

00:34We are the people, we are the people, we are the people.

00:39We are the people, we are the people, we are the people.

00:44I was left with the siren, especially the firemen.

00:48I hear them and my legs loosen.

00:50At least a hundred people were shot.

00:52Where were you going to get me, me, me?

00:54The people were screaming.

00:55Open the doors, help, I'm drowning.

00:58They were screaming.

00:59The PEOs were killed by corruption.

01:01That's it.

01:02Neither the Bengala nor the Rock and Roll were killed by corruption.

01:05If tomorrow, God willing, another Cro-Magnon does not happen,

01:09exactly the same thing happens.

01:11A large part of me was left, I left, but a large part of me was left in here.

01:15I can tell you that this is desolating.

01:17I am in the Ramos Valley, in the PEO, in the Fernandez Institute,

01:20in the Quemado, in the Iglesia Blanca, where a Bengala resides.

01:23I am in the Argerich Hospital and this really seems like an immense wake.

01:30194 dead and more than 1,400 injured.

01:34That December 30, 2004, in this building in the 11 neighborhood,

01:39Republica Cro-Magnon was operating.

01:41A place that had a room for 1,030 people.

01:44However, the capacity exceeded that number by three times.

01:48My father's name was Gerardo Rossi.

01:50He worked for Casigre, he was one of his five trusted people.

01:57He was there to take care of the gang.

01:59He was a hero that night.

02:02He did what no one else did.

02:04He came in nine times to get people out.

02:06He gave his life for the lives of others.

02:08You came in here. Who did you come with?

02:10I came with José Cantale.

02:12He was my partner and he died that night.

02:16I still have the memories.

02:19Since I came in with Diego, who was my partner.

02:22You were the last two to buy a ticket.

02:24If you didn't tell everyone, you were the last two to buy a ticket.

02:28My father's birthday was on December 30.

02:30I was turning 36 that night.

02:32I came to bring him a gift.

02:35I brought my ticket and I drove my mother crazy with the calls to stay.

02:40Until she told me she was fine and that I should stay.

02:42Look, on the ground floor, on the ground floor, the recital started.

02:46And in a minute and a half, the fire started.

02:48I could already see the candle touching the ceiling,

02:52but the balls were bouncing and they fell on the audience.

02:55They are incandescent balls.

02:57Incandescent, of course.

02:58With the Americanoticias team, we were standing in this corner of Bartolomé Mitre and Ecuador.

03:03It was impossible to get close to that place.

03:06We saw here a large number of people lying on the ground,

03:12who later we learned were dead.

03:14In general, they were all patients who died of suffocation.

03:17We have stopped the therapy, the coronary unit and all the hospital ventilators.

03:22I was one of the first to leave.

03:25I went to Rivadavia, I came back.

03:27When I came back, this was already chaos.

03:30I got involved again because I couldn't find him.

03:37I heard my father's screams, he was calling me, he was looking for me.

03:41I listened to him, I listened to Natalia.

03:45I couldn't answer him.

03:47I went out until I was able to go down the stairs, because I was on the ground floor.

03:52When my body couldn't take it anymore, two people took me out.

03:58I grabbed my legs and said, that's it.

04:03I remembered my mother, my grandparents.

04:05When I opened my eyes, they were already in the hotel next door.

04:09I don't know who took me out.

04:10I started to loosen my legs and I thought I was going to die.

04:14My mother found me in the corner.

04:16She asked me about my father.

04:18I said, I don't know, I don't know.

04:20She found him there.

04:24My mother said, let's go Gerardo.

04:26He said no.

04:27How was he going to leave?

04:28There were a lot of people inside.

04:29He wasn't going to leave until he got the last one out.

04:32He was inside.

04:33And that's how it was.

04:34Sometimes my chest and head hurt, I couldn't take it anymore.

04:37But I had to look for my friend.

04:38I went and he was there, shouting my last name.

04:41We hugged each other and we fell.

04:43We gave up, but we were alive.

04:51We had to go through hospitals.

04:56At first through hospital guards, then through morgue guards.

05:00I started to walk and I found Pedro.

05:03Like a baby, lying on the floor.

05:05He was in the hospital.

05:08He had an infection in his lungs.

05:10He even burned his esophagus.

05:12And he fought for his life until June 15, 2005, when he died.

05:18Among the 300 graves that the judicial cause has,

05:224 out of 10 of the deceased died that night

05:25after having left and returned to rescue other young people.

05:30This was the hotel.

05:32That's where the shoes are, right?

05:35That's where the women go in.

05:37All the names and drawings.

05:39And that's where the men go in, right?

05:41Look, I was locked in the main door.

05:44Locked there for a long time.

05:46And I'm sorry to say this, but I was standing above people who were still alive

05:52and I couldn't give them a hand.

05:54That night, my dad was one of those who was very angry

05:58because he couldn't open the door, which was the one with the padlock.

06:02My dad opened it while climbing.

06:04Your dad opened the famous door?

06:06My dad opened the door while climbing.

06:08I had a lot of time with the guilt, working on the guilt,

06:11because that night I left and I couldn't stay to help

06:15as many children stayed throughout the night.

06:18There are many people who can't leave Cromañón yet.

06:22This is very difficult.

06:24The survivors get sick.

06:26The survivors die.

06:28The parents get sick.

06:30The parents die.

06:32The survivors commit suicide.

06:34When you see the 20 years that have passed

06:37and the result, the balance is absolutely negative.

06:41Because nothing has changed.

06:43But it's not that there's more security. No, no.

06:45I'm very proud of my dad.

06:47It's what he chose.

06:49He chose to give his life for the lives of others.

06:52He felt guilty for not being able to save more lives.

06:59CROMAÑÓN IS NOT A CITY

07:02CROMAÑÓN IS NOT A CITY

07:04CROMAÑÓN IS NOT A CITY

07:06CROMAÑÓN IS NOT A CITY

07:08CROMAÑÓN IS NOT A CITY

07:11It was understood that corruption could also kill,

07:14where many mistakes have been made

07:17regarding the vision that was reflected in the media

07:21of the victims themselves.

07:23It was very difficult to understand

07:26that there was a chain of responsibilities

07:29that clearly had to do with political decisions.

07:3320 years of Cromañón.

07:35Our hug to all the victims and the families of the victims.

07:39Gabriel Prosper, live.

07:41Gabriel, where are you?

07:46With this image that continues to cause chills,

07:52that really amazes us when we see these faces,

07:56these kids, these girls in their majority.

08:00Look at the ages.

08:0217, 21, 20 years old, 18.

08:08The vast majority had not yet begun to live.

08:12And he came here that night, like today,

08:15maybe at this time, all of them getting ready

08:18to enjoy the recital of their favorite band.

08:22They were arriving little by little to this street,

08:25Bartolomé Mitre Street, a few meters from station 11.

08:30And they were going to meet, unfortunately,

08:32a few hours later, with a hell.

08:35A hell that today has become more than a sanctuary.

08:39It was a space of memory, of claim of justice,

08:44of persisting in that request,

08:47so that we do not forget those who,

08:52damaged by what we saw in the images that night,

08:56sincerely marked us a before and after,

09:00this situation of Cromañón.

09:02Relatives who are here,

09:04gathered, saying their words of memory,

09:09truth and justice.

09:11And the people, Transcebuntes,

09:13who during this whole day,

09:15since very early,

09:17come here to remember in silence,

09:20with respect, with deep pain,

09:24many, because surely many of them

09:27had to do with that night.

09:30And this expression has been arranged here

09:33to exercise memory.

09:35Photos, names, with the boys and girls

09:39who lost their lives here.

09:41194 victims,

09:43who, as this poster says very well,

09:47that we have here,

09:49are still present.

09:51Now and always,

09:53in the memory of all those who,

09:56I reiterate,

09:58we will never forget that night,

10:00because they are those events

10:02that put us in front of a painful reality.

10:05Those facts that make us remember,

10:08effectively and taxatively,

10:10where we were.

10:12This place, Facundo,

10:14today and from a presidential decree

10:17of last year,

10:19is a historical heritage of Argentina.

10:24This street.

10:26But also, the relatives,

10:28a long time ago,

10:30came claiming that Cromañón,

10:32where we are going now,

10:34becomes a space of memory.

10:38For that to happen,

10:40the national state

10:42has to expropriate,

10:44precisely,

10:46the shed of Cromañón.

10:48That still cannot be done,

10:50for bureaucratic reasons,

10:51for legal reasons,

10:52it is still in private hands.

10:54The Congress of the Nation,

10:56in its lower chamber,

10:57this year extended

10:59the time for the national state

11:01to expropriate this place

11:03and turn it into a space of memory.

11:05This is what the relatives

11:07are fighting for.

11:09And look at what I was telling you,

11:11how with respect,

11:13in silence,

11:15the people sitting here

11:17with their cell phones in their hands,

11:19still see this place

11:21full of horror,

11:23and the shoes hanging.

11:27The symbol,

11:29the unmistakable icon

11:31of what happened that night.

11:33We stay,

11:35Gaby, with this image,

11:37and thinking about

11:39everything that happened

11:41in those 20 years

11:43that we are going through,

11:45and what José Iglesias,

11:47one of the parents who has fought so much,

11:49said, what could happen today,

11:51God forbid,

11:53if something similar to what happened that night

11:55inside the Republic of Cromañón.

11:57What could happen?

11:59That question is open, of course.

12:01The eternal memory,

12:03the open wounds

12:05of the night in which Argentina

12:07never slept again.

12:0920 years of Cromañón. See you later.

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