The safety of children in Reyes' horseback riding is everyone's responsibility

Like the vast majority of families and children in Spain last day 5, the night before the Magi give gifts to all the children in the world (says the legend), we went to see Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar and his pages, and in passing to catch some of the hundreds of candies they threw.

My family and I are in the third or fourth row (we saw them pass twice because in the first Aran fell asleep) to be safer, not to be imprisoned among people and to see them not too close and I could see in front of me to several adults and children doing real crazy things with the sole purpose of catching some more candies.

As always, you think a little about how foolish people are but it is not that I gave too many laps because every year you see adult people losing their heads, but I remembered everything seen later when, when I got home and turned on the computer I saw people commenting that a six-year-old boy had just been hit by a chariot of the Magi.

Six years is the age of my son Jon, the eldest, and between him and I we did our best to catch the candies that fell in our range of action (say a couple of square meters), but we both knew that, neither we could take all (we weren't going to fight anyone for a candy), nor were we going to put our integrity at risk for getting four more broken candies.

I saw people approaching the floats continuously with the bag in their hands, their children running in front of the front row of people to get more candy than the more sane adults (those who maintain their position) and I came to think that "they do not pass anymore things because God does not want, "as they usually say.

The problem is that God neither wants nor stops wanting and sometimes things do happen. In Malaga the floats had stopped a moment and the boy wanted to take advantage of the situation to catch a few more candies from under the float. When booting again, the float ran over him.

Although emergency personnel came to the place as soon as possible, there was nothing they could do for their lives, demonstrating that either security is lacking in these events, either with a fenced path or with personnel surrounding the floats so that no one can about, or adults we have to be clear that The safety of children in the horseback riding of Reyes is our responsibility.

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