👉 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.
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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.