República Cromagnon nightclub fire memorial

The following pictures are of the monument made in honor of the victims of the December 30th 2004 Disco fire in República Cromagnon. Quite a charged place to be in. If you know the term: "stone tape theory" you know what i mean. It killed 194 people and injured 714 others of which many have severe burn injuries.The cause was a pyrotechnic flare (it was close to New Years) and more than half of the fire exits were so shut they couldn't be opened. The use of materials which give of a lot of smoke and toxic gases added to the disaster. The disco owner Omar Chabán turned himself in after first fleeing the police. Eventually the mayor Aníbal Ibarra had to face impeachment and was replaced by the current mayor Jorge Telerman. Want to rea dthe whole story about this drama? Read here.

"Ave Maria, gratia plena,
Dominus tecum;
benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen."