More than 2,000 residents of Morón de la Frontera said goodbye this Saturday to the three members of Sevilla, a father and his two children, who died in the multiple accident that occurred on Thursday on the A-4 highway near Santa Cruz de Mudela (City Real), when they went to Madrid to see their team in the Cup against Atlético.
This tragedy has shocked this Sevillian town, with about 28,000 inhabitants, and the funeral, officiated by the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Seville, Teodoro León, was attended by a delegation from the Sevilla club led by its president, José María del Nido Carrasco. , vice president Pepe Castro, coach Quique Sánchez Flores, captain Jesús Navas or the Morón player Kike Salas.
From shortly after 3:30 p.m. there were already numerous people gathered in the vicinity of the Parish of Our Lady of Victory and of the Holy Spirit, half an hour before the funeral began for Antonio González Castilla, 47, and his sons Antonio and José. , 17 and 15 years old. The church was completely full of people an hour before.
The three Sevilla F.C. subscribers They died in an accident caused by intense fog when they were heading to Madrid to watch the Cup quarterfinal match between the Andalusian team and Atlético de Madrid.
The funeral was directed by the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of the province of Seville, Teodoro León, in a crowded temple and with many people in the street waiting for the coffins to come out to accompany the family to the cemetery.
Both upon arrival at the Church and upon departure after the funeral, a total silence was maintained among the people gathered to support the family of the deceased, well known in this town in the Sierra Sur of Seville for their connection with the world. brother, as brothers of the Brotherhood of Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno, and also with the Unión Deportiva Morón club.
The coffins have not gone directly to the cemetery, but have stopped at the Hermitage of Fuensanta, headquarters of the Brotherhood of Jesús Nazareno de Morón, to which the deceased belonged and where a farewell mass was celebrated.
All this with a Local and National Police device to block the central streets of the town and facilitate the movement of the family, in a minibus enabled by the funeral home that has taken charge of the arrangements for this funeral.
The town is experiencing the third of the four days of official mourning decreed by the City Council for this event, which will end at midnight next Monday with the flags, in all municipal buildings, flying at half-mast outside and with black crepe in the interior ones.
On its social networks, the City Council has shown the condolence and solidarity of all the residents of Morón de la Frontera to the relatives of the deceased with the "most sincere" affection, and for four days all planned official events have been suspended.
Furthermore, he has expressed his gratitude to the media, as well as to the numerous entities that have addressed the municipal Corporation to express their dismay and support.
LaLiga has agreed that this weekend a minute of silence will be observed in all the matches of the twenty-second matchday of LaLiga EA Sports and the twenty-fourth of LaLiga Hypermotion, in memory of these three Sevilla fans who died in this multiple accident recorded last Despeñaperros as a result of the dense fog.
