Local residents considered Montage poor in its reenactment of an episode that left 71 people dead. The town hall apologized for the “discomfort” caused.
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In La Union, the municipality where the accident with the delegation’s plane occurred Chapecoense, a decorative Christmas figure alluding to the tragedy, was removed this Friday the 24th after it provoked widespread rejection from residents who found the recreation of the sad episode that left 71 dead and shocked the world in poor taste held. As part of the decoration of Christmas In the main park of this city, in the department of Antioquia, several figures have been placed that commemorate the “peculiarity” of the place and historical events, including an airplane made of metal paper sticks that commemorated the crash on a hill on the night of November 28, 2016.
After intense criticism, the city of La Unión announced in a statement the removal of this part of the Christmas display and apologized for the “inconvenience caused.” “Considering that the installation of the airplane figure, which alludes to the event of November 28, 2016 that marked the city, has generated different reactions on social media, the city of La Unión has decided to remove the figure from the plane Remove “Main Park,” said a statement signed by Mayor Édgar Alexander Osorio. The statement continued: “The intention of the Christmas decorations was never to affect the receptivity of the community.”
The text states that for this edition of Christmas decorations in La Unión, in addition to “representing the history of the municipality” in which there are still traces of it, the organizers wanted to work on a theme that alludes to architecture, fauna and flora, tragedy, especially on what is now Cerro Chapecoense with crosses commemorating the victims of the crash of the Bolivian company LaMia plane. After dismantling the decorative aircraft, the town hall will turn on the lights this Saturday the 25th to welcome the Christmas season in the city’s main square, where a Eucharist will be celebrated next Tuesday to commemorate seven years since the plane crash , which forever marked the lives of the inhabitants of La Unión.
*With information from the EFE agency