On the followingnoon of this Tuesday, various incidents were recorded at the entrance to the first show scheduled by Daddy Yankee at the National Stadium, where the attendees knocked down bars, climbed walls, forced access and attacked the personnel who carried out access control.
As reported by the production company Bizarro, organizer of the event, the doors to the sports venue opened around 4:00 p.m. to allow access to reggaeton fans, but as the minutes passed, both people with tickets and others without it, they rushed the control tasks.
The production company reported at 7:00 p.m. that it had to interrupt the entry of attendees due to disorders at the National Stadium, specifically at the entrances to Avenida Grecia. According to Bizarro’s message through his Twitter account, “we have been forced to intermittently close the accesses to Avenida Grecia, due to people who, acting illegally, have attacked personnel from our security, ticket validation and production teams.”
For such access, those who have tickets for General Court (Catwalk), Middle Pacific (Limbo), High Pacific (She lifted me), Low Pacific (Rompe), Side Pacific (Pose), Gallery (King Daddy), would enter. Pit Legendaddy right and wheelchair accessible.
After that and already with the national opening act Polimá WestCoast, which was scheduled to go on stage at 8:00 p.m., various records of social networks reported the lack of control that existed both outside the ñuñoino enclosure and inside. To the forced income communicated by the producer, people joined who climbed and walked along the walls of the National Stadium to avoid the controls, managing to sneak in among the attendees.
Also, a crowd of people knocked down an access gate through Pedro de Valdivia. Through this artery would enter those who have tickets for the locations Pit Legendaddy left, Andes (Gasoline) and Cancha VIP (Calmly).
Already inside, there was also disorder in the location of the attendees, those who claimed that the space for paid locations was not respected and that everyone sought to reach the sectors closest to the stage. Records show the collapse of some bars that divided the general court sector with the VIP field.
The firm in charge of the three concerts affirmed that -following the start of the incidents- police personnel from Carabineros were in charge of controlling public order in the entrance of fans to the sports venue.
From the police institution, meanwhile, they preliminarily communicated at regarding 8:00 p.m. that the situation was generated by groups of people who tried to enter the sports venue without having their tickets. To control the situation, the Public Order Control (COP) personnel arrived at the place.
Previously it was reported that the event would have a security reinforcement with 400 guards, plus another 200 support, in addition to a complement of 250 police officers. “We were with the authorities, the presidential delegate, the mayor of Ñuñoa, the head of the Metropolitan Police, and they are ready to collaborate in joint work, because Coldplay served to learn that there are things that can be done differently, because the other way does not work “detailed Daniel Merino, producer of the event, during last Saturday.
The presidential delegate, Constanza Martínez, had assured on Monday that the necessary coordination had been carried out to protect the nearly 66,000 attendees at the event.
The authority maintained on the occasion that “We have already verified compliance with security measures and protocols at the National Stadium so that this 27, 28 and 29 we can enjoy calmly and without emergency calls”, alluding to the title of one of the artist’s songs.
“As a delegation, we have deployed a series of coordination and security measures so that today the more than 66,000 people can safely enjoy and thus support the reactivation of the shows,” Martínez also stated this Tuesday morning.
The Undersecretary for Crime Prevention, Eduardo Vergara, affirmed that the producer of the event failed to comply with basic security standards.
“In a massive event, the first, second, third, fourth and fifth priority is the safety of people. In addition, we are talking regarding an event that is paid for, where there is a person in charge who is the organizer of the event, who has to comply with the basic security standards,” said Undersecretary Vergara in conversation with T13.
Vergara was of the opinion that “We have to evaluate if whoever organized the event complied with what they had to comply with, the number of guards. Clearly, the images we have seen speak of the inability of whoever was organizing this event to guarantee that people can attend in peace and tranquility.”
“When they break accesses and there is an entry of people who are not controlled and who we do not know who they are or what they are carrying, it means that the safety of all attendees is in question”Vergara said.
In turn, from Carabineros they took stock of the situation at Daddy Yankee’s first concert, where they confirmed an uncontrolled income and fines for the two companies on which security during the event depended.
“As a result of the agglomeration of people that occurred around 7:30 p.m., Carabineros when people tried to force themselves to enter the premises without their due authorization or validation, had to make use of its security and dissuasive elements to be able to regain control of public order”detailed Colonel Rodrigo Ganga, service chief of the first day of the recital at the National Stadium.
For this reason, the officer explained, the people who were waiting to enter through Grecia Avenue, moved to Pedro de Valdivia, “which as a result of an attack on a validator of the placethese made force and managed to enter approximately 4 thousand people to the venue”.