2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
In the early hours of June 12, 2016, a man named Omar Mateen entered the Pulse Club, located in Orlando, Florida, and began shooting. Hundreds of people from the LGBT community, mostly Latinos who were in the place, left the fun behind and their joy was transformed into terror and despair as some fell as a result of the shooting.
The bottom line was 49 people killed and several dozen injured in a massacre orchestrated by Mateen, who said he was acting on behalf of the Islamic State. The attack went from being an action against a specific group to becoming a moment of global solidarity in the face of such barbarism.
A year away, those close to the victims met in a private act to pay tribute in honor of those who lost their lives that night. In addition to reading the names of the deceased, the song “Over the rainbow” was sung, a kind of anthem of the LGTB community.
"I am here not so much because of what I lost, but because of the people who are here, that many of them have not overcome it and that they need us," Venezuelan Jhamil Zaid Hinds, who lost several friends, told the EFE agency. night. "Let them feel that we are here, giving them strength and they are not alone."
United States President Donald Trump spoke about it. "WE WILL NEVER FORGET the victims who lost their lives a year ago today in the terrible shooting at #PulseNightClub," the president wrote on his Twitter account.
The tributes will continue today as part of the acts of the “Orlando United Day, Day of Love and Kindness”, in which politicians and community leaders will preside over the ceremony “Orlando is Love: Remembering Our Angels” that will take place in the Amphitheater from Lake Eola Park.
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