One year later, the uncomfortable question
Claudia Sheinbaum says she will ask prosecutor Bertha Alcalde how the judicial process for the death of two photojournalists at the AX Ceremonia festival is going. He said it in his morning conference. It sounds like a promise, but it smells like protocol.
“I understand that you are in the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City, right? We are going to ask the prosecutor how that process is going”
The phrase has that ‘I’m going to see what happens’ tone that we know so well. Meanwhile, the families of Berenice Giles and Miguel Ángel Rojas continue to wait for justice. It has been exactly one year since a structure collapsed in Bicentennial Park.
What did happen and what did not
Administratively, there was movement: they took away the park concession from the organizers. The federal government recovered it and now the Ministry of Culture administers it. Sheinbaum mentioned that they found “a scheme similar to the National Auditorium” to manage the space.
But that’s the least of it. The important thing is the criminal. And there, the waters are murky.
The capital’s Prosecutor’s Office said yesterday that it seeks to charge companies for the deaths. The prosecutor Alcalde stated that “for months” they requested an initial hearing to charge individuals and legal entities.
For months? The accident was on April 5 of last year. The organizers did not notify anyone and the shows continued as if nothing had happened. Mayor Miguel Hidalgo had to order the suspension.
Now, twelve months later, the president is going to ask. Memory is fragile, but court records should not be. The journalistic community continues to wait for answers that go beyond a question at a press conference.
