Mad Cool ‘desolated’ after acrobat falls to death
The Madrid festival has expressed its "respect and admiration" for Pedro Aunión Monroy after he lost his life in a tragic accident yesterday
News By IQ | 8 July 2017
The promoters of Madrid’s Mad Cool Festival have spoken of their “absolute desolation” following a tragic accident which saw an acrobatic performer fall to his death yesterday evening.
Forty-two-year-old aerialist Pedro Aunión Monroy, a director of UK-based performing arts company In Fact Productions, had been performing to the Prince song ‘Purple Rain’ in a illuminated box hanging from a crane when he fell some 100ft to the ground below. According to Spanish media reports, witnesses say Monroy was wearing a…
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