A Spanish aerial acrobat has died after falling 30 metres during a performance at Madrid‘s Mad Cool Festival.
Pedro Aunion Monroy, 42, was performing a routine set to Prince‘s ‘Purple Rain‘ while inside a glass box suspended in the air. Although he was wearing a harness, reports seem to indicate that the rope suspending him snapped.
The festival organisers chose not to let the thousands of people in the crowd know what they had just seen; many festival-goers took to Twitter to ask what had happened to Monroy, who died of his injuries shortly after the fall.
@GreenDay We’re at mad cool and we all saw that acrobat fall down. We don’t know anything about him. Did they tell you something about it?
— Floren (@Floren94) July 7, 2017
Did I just see someone die? #madcool2017
— Adrian Randle (@AdrianWRandle) July 7, 2017
Even more alarmingly, the band scheduled to take the stage following his performance, Green Day, were apparently not told what had happened. After their set, they tweeted:
We just got off stage at Mad Cool Festival to disturbing news. A very brave artist named Pedro lost his life tonight in a tragic accident
— Green Day (@GreenDay) July 8, 2017
Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends
— Green Day (@GreenDay) July 8, 2017
The festival organisers cited security concerns as the reason they didn’t stop proceedings or alert the crowd as to what had happened, but they are being roundly condemned by attendees. Mad Cool will hold a tribute for the artist Saturday, Spanish time.
Our thoughts are with Pedro Aunion Monroy’s friends and family.
Source: Telegraph.
Image: YouTube.
