Orión Hernández Radoux, 30: French-Mexican music festival producer
Murdered by Hamas near the Supernova festival on October 7, his body kidnapped to Gaza and recovered in May 2024
Orión Hernández Radoux, 30, a French-Mexican dual national, was murdered by Hamas terrorists after fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7.
His body was kidnapped to Gaza, and his remains were recovered by IDF troops from northern Gaza on May 23, 2024.
Orion attended the rave with his girlfriend, Shani Louk, who was also murdered by Hamas that day and her body taken hostage and later recovered. Another friend, Keshet Casarotti-Kalfa, who tried to flee with them, was also murdered in the onslaught.
Until Orion’s body was returned to Israel, his family had held out hope that he was alive and being held hostage. They never saw any sign of life during his captivity, but they had received messages from Hamas from his phone implying that he was alive and held hostage.
After being returned to Israel, his body was flown on May 28, 2024, to Mexico for burial.
He is survived by his parents, Sergio Hernández, and his mother, Marie-Pascale Radoux, as well as his 2-year-old daughter.
Orion was born in the central Mexican state of Morelos and had dual nationality from his French-born mother.
A DJ and event producer, he met Shani at a music festival in Europe, and the couple were together for eight months before they were killed. Orion had arrived in Israel just a few days before the Supernova festival to reunite with Shani and enjoy the rave together.
The Hostages Families Forum said Orion “had a deep love for music and dancing, worked as a music producer and visited music festivals around the world.”
According to the Spanish-language La Nacion news site, Orion had been traveling around Europe with a group of eight friends for several months before they arrived in Israel. The group had organized a music festival in September in Thermos, Greece, and traveled for months in an RV including stops in France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Hungary and Croatia.
In an interview with the Milenio newspaper in Mexico, Orion’s mother said she wanted her son to be remembered as a “great warrior, someone who was very free ever since he was little. He was always rebellious, he was always difficult to educate, to control, was always very free and was not afraid of anything. He was resilient and had a lot of energy to become a warrior from a young age.”
Pascale said her son loved horror films, and once asked her to buy him the creepy Chucky doll for Christmas: “He had the face of an angel, but he went around with his Chucky doll, and it came off as strange. He looked for scorpions, deadly spiders, he was temperamental,” she recalled.
“He never went looking for a war or anything like that, he was pure love.”