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South Korea is in mourning on Sunday, October 30, the day after the Halloween stampede, which killed 153 people in Seoul. Beyond the sentence, many questions arise.
Trapped in an increasingly compact crowd, a young man films with his mobile phone, Saturday, October 29. Around him, several people are suffocating, unable to free themselves. It is then a little after 10 p.m. in the bar district of Seoul (South Korea). A few minutes before the tragedy, nearly 100,000 people who had come to celebrate Halloween wandered around, shoulder to shoulder. Suddenly, the first cries are heard. “There were so many people being pushed around. I found myself caught in the crowd, I had the impression that an accident was bound to happen”confides Jeon Ge-Eul, witness of the accident.
Two crowds of several thousand people tried to move in the opposite direction, in sloping alleys. On the amateur images, unconscious wounded are evacuated by passers-by, who perform cardiac massages on the sidewalk, in an attempt to resuscitate them. Victims are lined up under makeshift shrouds. Among them, young people in their twenties. Why did the authorities let so many people gather in the winding streets? The controversy swells. The president went there and declared a day of national mourning. He promised a rigorous investigation to shed light on the causes of the fatal stampede.