2023-05-23 13:56:00
Ciudad Delgado, El Salvador | With religious songs some 200 Salvadorans said goodbye this Monday at an emotional funeral to Leslie Fermán Murcia, a fan of the Alianza club, who with her life protected her daughter from the stampede inside the Cuscatlán stadium in which twelve people died.
The fateful night Leslie, 34, protected her 14-year-old daughter as much as she could with her body, and before she died, she screamed that they would help her save her.
“Leslie went (to the stadium) for fun and to enjoy time with her daughter to teach my niece the passion for sports, but we never imagined that a misfortune would happen,” Yajaira Fermán Murcia, sister of Murcia, told AFP. the deceased.
After being rescued and due to multiple traumas, Leslie’s daughter was admitted to a hospital by relief brigades. Her most severe injury was to her right foot, so at her funeral her youngest was carried in the arms by members of her family.
This Monday, a hearse moved the white coffin from the Beatriz community to a cemetery in Ciudad Delgado, on the northeastern outskirts of San Salvador.
Leslie also orphans a four-year-old boy.
The tragedy that mourns El Salvador occurred on Saturday 10 minutes after the start of the quarterfinal match of the local soccer tournament between the Alianza and FAS clubs.
Allied lifelong
Since Sunday night, the Alianza bar has placed an “altar” with flowers and candles on a wall of the Cuscatlán stadium to pay tribute to the victims, and has also attended the victims’ funerals.
Around Leslie’s coffin surrounded by flowers, the Alliance bar sang and thanked their loyalty to the club.
“Leslie was a lifelong fan of Alianza, her death has marked us a lot (…) We will continue to be Alianzas because the team has nothing to do with it,” said Yajaira.
“I think that (the tragedy) was an oversight on the part of the authorities and the fans who were in order, and I don’t know what happened to them, they despaired because the game had started,” he said.
This Monday in the same Beatriz community of Ciudad Delgado, Nestor Alas, another of the fatalities, was veiled.
The Alianza players also decided to attend the different funeral services to express “their condolences,” defender Henry Romero, 31, told AFP.
“It is a difficult moment that we have all experienced. We lived it in the stadium, unfortunately (the tragedy) happened and we must give a lot of strength and strength to the family,” Romero exclaimed when participating in Leslie’s funeral.
Looking to the future, according to Romero, “care must be taken so that these things do not happen again because in the end it is the common fan who is affected by what we have experienced.”
farewell applause
In the Ciudad Delgado cemetery, evangelical pastor Melvin Castro stood in front of the coffin where he advocated for Leslie’s family “to have strength” to cope with her loss.
Under a scorching sun and a slight breeze, those present, many wearing Alianza’s white shirt, accompanied the pastor with some songs.
At the closing of the ceremony, Castro called for “loud applause” after which Leslie was buried.
The sports authorities and the Prosecutor’s Office -separately- are investigating the possible causes of the deadly human avalanche in the stadium.
The attorney general, Rodolfo Delgado, assured on Twitter that the investigation “advances.” “Our mission is to bring justice on behalf of the victims,” he tweeted.
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