Gisele was unable to save her mother.
She died while going down the stairs of a building in the Chiminango II neighborhood, in northeastern Cali, when the ground shook and everything came crashing down. Her body was trapped between the stairs and the collapsed ceiling, in plain view of anyone passing by.
What Gisele did not imagine was what would come next. Amid the chaos, with her mother still not rescued, she began to notice something that broke her: people approaching not to help, but to take out their phones and photograph her mother’s exposed corpse. On camera, through tears, she made a desperate appeal to the authorities to remove the body with dignity, and to onlookers to stop turning her tragedy into content for social media.
