Frida Sofia – the girl who supposedly survived under the rubble destroyed by the earthquake of Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico city, never existed.
Recall the history of salvation Schoolgirls watched the whole world.
Reported that she is alive, not only journalists, but the actual rescue – in particular, employees of the military-the Navy, which participate in the rescue work. According to them, 12-year-old girl was still alive, since it covered the Desk. She allegedly told the rescuers his name is Frida Sophia, passed her water and oxygen.
They tweeted tens of thousands of messages dedicated to Frida. People from around the world wrote that can’t go to sleep until you hear that the girl you pulled.
«She is called #FridaSofia.»
The rescue of a 12-year-old girl trapped after Mexico’s earthquake grips the world
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But later in history began to appear the first inconsistencies.
So, reports the Los Angeles Times, officials of the Department of education insisted that the school had pupils with the same name. In addition, not showed up and the girl’s parents.
And yesterday, Thursday, Enrique Sarmiento Beltran, Deputy head of the Navy of Mexico, confirmed that the girl never existed. «All the children of this school or safe at home, or died,» he said. Beltran added that the Navy disseminated information about Frida Sofia «based on the testimony of civilian rescuers and employees of this institution».
He and his colleague, major Jose Luis Vergara, denied any attempt to mislead the public, saying that it was «without malicious intent».
This news has angered Mexicans and people from other countries who began to write angry comments in social networks.
«How dare they play with people’s feelings?!», «They just need the rating and television, and the Navy», «They play with pain for the Mexicans and mothers», — here only some of them.
Note that in Mexico this is not the first case of such «fake». Thus, during the earthquake of 1985 , the news of the surviving 9-year-old boy Luis Navarrete. Rescuers spent more than two weeks trying to get his grandfather from the wreckage. All this time the child’s parents were nearby, on the street, hoping that their son is alive.
In the end, the grandfather’s body recovered from the destroyed building, and the child was never found. Who first started the rumor about the girl escaped is still unknown.
