Julio Rodriguez
02/01/2021 20:10
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/01/2021 20:10
An entire town distraught, hurt, tearful and emotional said goodbye to A
bigail Jiménez
, the 12-year-old girl who fought for 7 years with bone cancer and was buried in the municipal cemetery of Las Termas.
The girl, who died on Sunday before 8:00 p.m., was fired by more than
2,000 people
who passed by her house on Coronel Bogado street, in the San Martín neighborhood of
Las Termas de Río Hondo
during the early hours of Sunday morning, Monday morning and afternoon.
The girl became sadly famous when, in mid-November, she came from an oncological control in Tucumán, along with her parents, and a police checkpoint detained them in Yutu Yacu, on the border between Santiago and Tucumán.
He was bad enough, with a leg badly affected by bone cancer that he had been fighting for 7 years and wanted to get home.
Desperate, her father took her out of the car in his arms and walked across the police checkpoint, along National Route 9.
Hundreds of neighbors accompanied Abigail Jiménez's farewell.
Photo: Santiago del Estero Agency
The
video went viral
very quickly and the case of Abigail was known, affected by Ewing's sarcoma, a strange bone cancer.
With the help of the Municipality of Las Termas, he
received treatment in a hospital in Tucumán.
The excessive police reaction earned him the repudiation of broad sectors of society.
This forced Governor Gerardo Zamora to come out to
apologize for the police action
.
Even the Santiago government paid for the trip and an interconsultation with the Austral Hospital, to have Abigail checked.
But there wasn't much to do anymore.
Officer Williams Sosa, who was involved in the operation, was removed from his post.
A large number of political leaders, including former President Mauricio Macri, expressed their solidarity with Abigail and even made an image of her father carrying her in his arms viral.
The parade of people through his house in the San Martín neighborhood, during Sunday night and early Monday morning, was almost incessant.
"She was a fighter and an example," repeated some neighbors and friends.
Outside the humble house a tent with chairs had been set up so that those who wanted to go in to see it for the last time could wait, sheltered from the annoying Santiago sun.
Hundreds of neighbors accompanied Abigail Jiménez's farewell.
Photo: Santiago del Estero Agency
Long lines of neighbors, friends and family from Las Termas passed by.
Everything was perfectly organized to, at least minimally, comply with the protocols required by the pandemic: chairs with distance, tents and chemical toilets set up in the street.
And a generator set was placed.
Solidarity was present at all times: when the heat hit the siesta, the neighbors took out chairs, sheltered the visitors and
invited water to refresh them
.
Not even the terrible humidity stopped the flood of people.
At 5:30 p.m., the funeral service personnel entered to carry out the closing ceremony of the coffin.
And there the most heartbreaking scenes were seen: Carmen, the mother, and Diego, the father, resisted not seeing her anymore.
Then the disconsolate cries, the cries of pain and the attempt of comfort of the relatives survived.
Outside, about 500 people were waiting for the coffin to come out, which was
loaded onto the fire truck
for the last lap around Las Termas.
The neighbors, on the side of the sidewalk, applauded his step.
Hundreds of young people and children, shocked, accompanied.
Here there was no longer respect for protocol.
At 7:00 p.m. the funeral procession, with hundreds of motorcycles, cars and trucks, arrived at the municipal cemetery of Las Termas.
"My love, you leave us a great pain. So much so that you fought it, why did you leave?" Her parents shouted.
The girl had been having complications since late November.
His father told
Clarín
that they expected the miracle and that during December and January he had had a slight improvement.
On Sunday morning, Abigail asked her parents to take her out for a walk in Las Termas;
They went to the Costanera and the dam.
"Then she told us she wanted to go home. And after a while she got cut off. God already wanted to take her," said her father, crying inconsolably.
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