The grandparents of the Argentinian twins who fell from a building in Barcelona will be reunited with their family in Spain

In the midst of a great commotion, the grandfather of the 12 year old Argentinian twins who jumped from the third floor of the apartment where they lived in Barcelona, ​​will travel to Spain this Friday evening to accompany their son. Meanwhile, the family awaits the evolution of Leila, the only one of the sisters who survived and who is still hospitalized in a coma in the hospital. Park Tauli Hospital from the town of Sabadell. They suspect it was a case of xenophobia and intimidation school.

“I already have the tickets. I arrive in Madrid tomorrow and they will be waiting for me there to take me alongside my son,” he said. Gustave Limagrandfather of the twins, in dialogue with GlobeLiveMedia.

It’s been almost four days since Gustav there Fernanda Castagnohis ex-wife and grandmother of the daughters, learned the tragic news: last Tuesday afternoon, his granddaughters Leila and Alana -who was transitioning from a gender identity change and asked to be named as Ivan-, they decided to jump from the balcony of their house and jump off the cliff. Iván died instantly, while Leila suffered multiple wounds and fractures to the body.

Immediately, Lima and Castagno, both residents of the city of Mar del Plata, embark on a desperate search to raise enough funds to fly to Spain and accompany their son Lucas, father of the miners. Finally, a Airline company -who asked to keep his name confidential- took the tickets from him to Gustav. “The Argentine Foreign Ministry and a company that granted me tickets to Madrid have settled here,” said the man, who works as a taxi driver.

As this medium was able to learn, Lima still presents disadvantages to travel, since she has a series of difficulties with your passport. However, given this situation, the Directorate of Argentines Abroad contacted the family, “collaborating in all the preparations and necessary consular assistance” for the flight.

At the time, Leila, the surviving sister, is stable and will undergo surgery this Friday, they reported from the Spanish hospital. “Yesterday around seven o’clock in the evening, my son told me that my granddaughter had evolved a little bit, they were happy. Today, they were going to try to wake her up to continue the cures. They still have to pass 72 hours,” explained the grandfather.

According to what has been revealed, the sisters were in their first year at the Llobregat Institute de Sallent, where the family had settled a year and a half ago.

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In this context, the causes that led them to jump into the void are being studied: according to the Spanish media, the strongest hypothesis to date is that of a collective suicide, since two letters written by the minors and two chairs that they could have used to jump were found at the home. A few days ago, from the communication area of ​​the Mossos d’Esquadra -the police of Catalonia- confirmed to GlobeLiveMedia What “there is no indication of crime in the rushwhich means that they would have jumped of their own free will. Despite this, they clarified that “there remains an open investigation in which no hypothesis on the motivation” of the drama has been ruled out.

For its part, grandparents claim girls were heavily bullied at school. “The bullying started because they were Argentinian, they had an Argentinian accent. AND it got worse when Alana wanted to be called Ivan and dress like a boy. That was it, literally,” Lima explained.

The education center, however, reported that they don’t count files for bullying, even though the Ministry of Education opened a case to clarify the facts and determine what happened to the twins. Moreover, according to the information of the newspaper The worldthis Thursday, and parallel to the investigation carried out by the Mossos, the Department of Education of the Generalitat has activated the Support Unit for Students in Situations of Violence (USAV) ​​​​to investigate on the many reasons which could lead minors to want to end their lives.

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