A friend of the Argentinian twins recounts the ordeal they suffered at school: ‘They harassed, surrounded and beat them’

After the tragic episode where some Argentinian twins threw themselves from the balcony of their house in Barcelonawhere one of them died and the other remains seriously hospitalized, a friend of theirs broke the silence and gave details of the ordeal they endured daily at school by their peers.

“They harassed them, surrounded them, beat them and told them things,” recalled the minor, who attends the Instituto Llobregat de Sallent, where the two attended.

His testimony was published by the site The casewhere the girl said that these situations They happened at recess time and in full view of all the teachers, They did nothing to stop these attacks. Moreover, he lamented that on many occasions they blamed the twins for defending themselves, and they were the ones who ended up being punished.

She even said that at one time when they were being raped, she wanted to help them and break up the fight, but she couldn’t get through a large circle of boys surrounding them.

According to them, the school bullying of which they were victims was never treated as such by the teachers of the establishment. “Since they came in, they’ve become the new ones,” he remarked. “Because they were Argentines, they were always told to go back to their country. When she cut her hair, one of them started bothering her with things about her sexuality.”a point.

The young student explained that on the last day, before the tragic event, they did not say goodbye or say anything that could have anticipated what would ultimately happen.

Shocked by the tragedy, neighbors of the Argentinian family erected a kind of altar with candles, flowers and messages of empathy for the twins on the asphalt of Calle Estació, in the Barcelona town of Sallent, where the 12-year-old Argentinian sisters fell.

However, this Saturday they were surprised because this demonstration of affection suffered a tear. “busy”someone wrote on a banner that read ‘Stop the bullying’, hinting at why the surveys point to what might have been the trigger that led the girls to take the decision to take their own lives.

Another banner embossed with colorful hands surrounding the inscription “We don’t want you to be silent. Justice” was stained with black spray.

The Argentinian family had moved to Barcelona in 2020, just before the pandemic, and the difficult economic situation the parents had to go through forced them to enter an abandoned house as squatters to give their three children a roof over their heads and be able to pass containment there.

According to Spanish media, the strongest hypothesis so far (a suicide) is based on the discovery of two letters written by the miners and two chairs that they could have used to jump. Sources close to the investigation told Spanish media that police were analyzing the two handwritten texts.

As the newspaper reports The countryAlana, the twin who died from the fall, written in the letter that suffered bullying and what does it do “misunderstood because of her gender identity”. In this sense, his distant relatives indicated that he asked to be called Iván.

For her part, Leila, the teenager who survived, said that when she jumped He acted in solidarity with his sister. The Spanish media maintained that there were two letters that the judiciary had in his possession and pointed out that in either case, they would separate the parents from the facts. The Girl Who Lived has a broken jaw.

Now research is focused in the family and details of the therapeutic treatment the twins had; in the Institute where they went, to find out if there had been any bullying; and in the social servicesbased on the reports of the professionals who have followed them.

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