Before removing barriers

in #photography7 years ago

Not everyone in this scary picture of the dead, for example, the man at the far right of the picture, who wears jeans and gives us his back, was saved but spent 20 years in rehabilitation treatment, until he lived almost normal, the bald man who shows only his arm On the left, was one of the 96 dead that day, April 15, 1989, when the crowd of Liverpool and Nottingham in the narrow corridors overcrowded them and then crushed them in the iron wires that separated the time between the stands and the stadium for fear of storming the famous English Houlings For stadiums.
After the tragedy, known as the "Hillsborough tragedy", the barriers between stadiums and stadiums were removed, but more than 800 people were killed and injured on this tragic day. Among the dead were 37 teenagers whose weak bodies did not bear this terrible overcrowding, The dead died on the playground, part in ambulances, part in hospitals, considered the worst disaster in the history of English sports.
At first, the accusations were directed at the public. The president of the European Union described Liverpool supporters as monsters. Initially, the incident was thought to have been caused by public riots, but over time, after the appointment of the Taylor Commission to investigate the disaster, The size of the runway, the opening and closing of doors and corridors at inappropriate times, the lack of rolling doors, the poor quality of the barriers between the stands and the complete failure of the police, which accused the public of being drunk.
The "Taylor report" accused senior police officers of being "false witnesses" for the gross failure that occurred, saying the runway, which witnessed the disaster, could not have left more than 1,700 spectators, while more than 3,000 spectators had been admitted.
After revealing the truth gradually resigned the President of the European Union, which accused the public responsibility, and after 27 years of tragedy apologized English newspapers that accused the public of the riot, and in 2012 recognized the British police lack of protection of the fans. In December of the same year, Prime Minister David Cameron apologized to the families of the victims and considered that the fans were victims of slander of the media and police.
But the two clubs, Liverpool and Nottingham, returned to the match in mourning after three weeks on May 7, 1989, Liverpool won 1/3 and then won the final on Everton.

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