Justice by own hands…Ycua Bolaños.
Ycua Bolaños tragedy in English
I’m so frustrated to see that corruption might win again in Paraguay. Two years ago on a Sunday august 1st there was a huge fire in a huge local grocery store that had a cafeteria where people use to go to eat on weekends, the place was full of people on that tragic Sunday.
A small fire started so to avoid vandalism and robberies the owner ordered to close all doors, the grocery store was huge, and build like a bunker. But the small fire soon had converted in a huge fire and people were trying to escape, of course not emergency exits were available, and of course no one had open the door, not even to the final moments, people from outside where trying to help to open holes in the building, some could escape with life, most of the fried inside, whole families, or children, or parents, the entire neighborhood lost someone. That was a tragic day for Asuncion, about 400 people dead, and a lot of people burned taken to the hospital. The whole country was terrified about what happened, on a scale it was as huge as 911 and totally avoidable.
All country stood together and people donated money from all over the world, there were a lot of volunteer work, assisting the burned or the victims families.
Who was responsible??
Yesterday more than 2 years after the incident, the judges finally came to a sentence, 5 years in prison for the owners who ordered to shut the door closed.
It is said that the owners of this chain of grocery stores called Ycua Bolaños paid the judges off to get the minimum sentence.
People’s reaction?
Doing justice by own hands.
Yesterday hundreds of people attacked with stones the Police that was standing in line forming a barricade trying to protect another grocery store from that same chain. There were robberies,they set fire on cars and local near by places, the thing went way out of control, etc more and more people where coming to the scene to attack or to do justice by own hands. Of course as in all similar situations 3rd people that have not been victims of the fire where there to take advantage of the situation and produce even more chaos. (there are always people taken advantage of extreme situations, pretending to be a victim). A lot of people got injured on the manifestation, because police reacted to establish order, some other were taken in custody by police.
That’s doesn’t seem justice to me.
Well, I understand the angry for the short sentence and this is the first time that Paraguayans won’t shut their mouths and let politician and judges decide.
People are together in this tragedy and will fight as they have shown, and that is the only way people in power will understand that the time to step on people’s head is over, the time for a submissive country is over and the time for corruption is over.
Sometimes I think that Paraguay is a place where there are not rules where there are just exceptions.
