The world will not soon forget the tragedy of the Astroworld Festival on Friday November 5th.
A crowd movement left 8 dead and 12 injured at the Astroworld music festival in Texas during a concert by rapper Travis Scott.
The police opened an investigation and numerous testimonies were heard.
Among them, that of Kristian Paredes, a young man of 23 seriously injured during the concert, and who was the first to file a complaint against the rapper, whom he accuses of
"inciting chaos and mayhem"
to each of them. his appearances.
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Another testimony on social networks, that of Seanna Faith, who came to the concert with a friend.
At 22, she was one of the first people to sound the alarm during the concert and take the stage to stop it.
The day after the events she returned, in an Instagram post, to the nightmare she experienced that evening.
From the first 30 seconds of the concert, the atmosphere changed dramatically
“people started pushing each other.
There were so many people.
Breathing quickly became complicated, only a few people were able to.
The others were crushed or suffocated in this thick and hot air
, ”she says on her Instagram page.
If she could catch her breath, her friend quickly ran out of air, “
she told me we had to get out.
We tried.
There was nowhere to go.
We were pushed harder and harder.
"
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In the space of a few minutes, panic swept over everyone and chaos set in: “
It
got
more and more violent. Impossible to breathe, because our lungs were compressed between the bodies of those around us. Many people started to cry for help, some started to collapse.
As the screams intensified, "
the music continued.
It is when she ends up losing sight of her friend that she realizes the magnitude of the situation. “It was then that
I realized that there is a way to die that not many people know about. Being trampled to death. I saw terror in every eye I met, even the ones that told me to breathe and stay calm.
"
It was then that she decided to go on stage, in order to raise the alarm. “
I saw the cameraman, his eyes riveted on the stage, raised on a platform. A platform that overlooked the crowd. I climbed the ladder and pointed to the hole, telling him people were dying. He told me to get off the platform and continued filming. (...) He got angry.
She screamed again, so much so that the cameraman called for help.
“The other man grabbed my arm and told me he would push me hard if I didn't come down. I was incredulous.
Nobody wanted to listen to her, and some of the crowd started booing her, "
They pointed their fury at me. II screamed in vain that people were dying, no one was listening to me
Finally, two doctors arrived and began to evacuate people over the barriers.