The farewell to the ‘King of Spite’ might not have been more moving, massive and deserved. As evening fell in the Campos de Paz cemetery in Medellín, Antioquia, hundreds of people waited with white balloons, singing Darío Gómez’s songs of spite and hoping to be present at his last goodbye.
Nevertheless, the shouts and the songs were silenced at the moment in which Esmad agents They had to intervene due to the number of people who rushed to the cemetery gates with the intention of entering the burial, which resulted in several people affected, including a minor.
Precisely at the arrival of the hearse at the Campos de Paz, the fans, some of them, delirious by the amount of alcohol that has been distributed in the farewell of the ‘King of Spite’, They wanted to jump the security fences to enter the place where the coffin of Darío Gómez will remain.
Although fortunately the excesses lasted only 20 minutes, between this time the agents of the Esmad had to fire tear gas to disperse the crowd, while angry fans started throwing bottles and stones at the police, which caused the cemetery gates to be closed immediately.
The riots affected both the people present who came with their children and older adults, as it was a family event. In addition to the sames relatives of Darío Gómez, since many of them stayed outside the cemetery, unable to be next to the coffin of their loved one in the last goodbye, and with the difficulties to be able to enter in the middle of the enraged crowd.
Minutes later the situation began to calm down and the Gómez family continued with the protocol in which mariachis played, Soldiers from the Army’s fourth brigade and hundreds of flowers, friends, musicians and relatives accompanied the body of the ‘King of Spite’.
Despite this, before the hearse arrived, the day had remained calm, and like the party that has been unleashed since the news of the death of the great artist, with hundreds of people saying goodbye with liquor and singing their songs, in addition to releasing white balloons in honor of the ‘King of Spite’ in which Darío Gómez says.
“The king of the people, the king of spite, for me he is unique, the songs… The first ones are the ones that fascinated me the most, but I like all of them”, were the words of a follower for WEEKwho before the riots stated that he was at the event to say goodbye to the great artist, whom he would have accompanied from the beginning.
It was stipulated that only the people who make up the closest nucleus of Darío Gómez would attend the funeral. Although on the guest list is the singer Galy Galeano, who anticipated that he will perform one of the “King’s” classics in the middle of the ceremony.
And in advance the possibility has been estimated that Gómez’s followers might accompany him, howeverthe family insisted that this was an intimate moment. While the fans expressed on social networks that they will take him to the grave, which they clearly tried this Saturday and unfortunately ended in riots.