In the letters left by the minors, the deceased exposed the pressure that did not let her live and her sister, her willingness to accompany her wherever she went
The aunt of the minors reiterates that “they were being marginalized for being Argentine, they were mistreated and victims of ‘bullying'”
About thirty people from the family of the Sallent twins, whose leap into the void from a third floor has shocked the educational community, and friends of the girls took to the streets this Friday calling for “justice” and “stop ‘bullying'”. environment and family Alanawho had expressed the desire to change gender and to identify himself as Ivanand of leilahis twin sister, reaffirm that they suffered harassment and point to the llobregat institutewhere they studied 1st of ESO, had not acted to prevent it.
The protest, which has started from the family’s house, has toured part of the town and has made two stops. The first in the Torres Amat school, where the twins studied the last two years of primary school and where, according to the environment, they were already suffering bullying. The tour has ended at the Llobregat Institute. There they have asked for justice for Alana and her sister and have demanded the dismissal of the director of the center considering that he did not do what was necessary to avoid the situation that the sisters were experiencing. “They were being marginalized for being Argentine, they were mistreated and victims of ‘bullying‘” said his aunt about the situation of minors.
About the content of the letters that they wrote before jumping off the balcony of her house, she explained that Alana’s did not specify that she decided to commit suicide due to ‘bullying’ but that she claimed to be tired of the situation she was experiencing and that I couldn’t take it anymore. In her writing, the deceased implied that I lived with the pressure of colleagues, a situation that would have worsened in recent months due to the fact that he had left the short hair and had expressed their willingness to carry out a gender change and being known as Ivan instead of Alana, his original name. She explained that this pressure did not let her live. Her sister, Leila, had expressed her willingness to accompany her wherever she went. In these letters, no explicit reference was made to the school ‘bullying’ on which the environment insists. The references left by the girls are of a more general nature.
Regarding Alana’s desire to change gender, the aunt has assured that the family did not know but that, in any case, this would not have been a problem for them. In addition, he has ensured that the family situation was correct, “that of a normal family”. Hence he states that “they had the problem in high school”.
A classmate from high school explained that Alana often came out crying from the center and that there had come to be fights with other colleagues. Regarding what measures the center had taken, he pointed out that, although at first they went to separate classes, it was decided to bring the brothers together in the same class and that Alana often taught in a separate classroom. A former student of the institute has pointed out that this It is not an isolated case and that there are other situations of bullying in the center.
The family has detailed that Leila has improved slightly despite the fact that her situation remains critical. They say that she has significant injuries to her face, arms and also to some internal organs. He funerall de Alana is scheduled to be held this Sunday at 1:00 p.m. at the Sallent funeral home.
Education did not detect bullying
On Friday, the ‘councillor’ of Education of the Generalitat, Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray, spoke about bullying, insisting that the Llobregat Institute, where the girls were in the 1st year of ESO, “did not detect any specific situation of bullying” school.
“A suicide is a failure of the whole of society”, said Cambray, who has pointed out that in “situations as tragic” as that of Sallent, the reasons are “multifactorial” and, in line with what the Departament d’ Educació, has not ruled out that girls suffered bullying. She has insisted, however, that Educació is not aware that the institute had activated the protocol against harassment. Nor do they know, she added, that the deceased twin had doubts about gender identity.
“The center had not detected any case or any specific problem related to bullying,” he said. In fact, she has explained that this was precisely what led the ‘conselleria’ to initially rule out this hypothesis. “This situation did not exist,” she pointed out. He has recognized that the information they received later, and especially in the last 24 hours, was what motivated the Department to activate the Support Unit for Students in Situations of Violence (Usav) to thoroughly investigate the matter. At the same time, there is an open investigation by the Mossos.
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Cambray has defended that the policies of his Department go in the direction of avoiding risky behaviors among adolescents, but has warned that “it is obvious” that the results “cannot be from one day to the next”. In this sense, she has advanced that Education and the Ministry of Health are “rethinking the Salut-Escola program”, but has not given more details.
For his part, he mayor of Sallent, Oriol Ribalta, has also qualified the initial position of the city council, which ruled out harassment. “At that time we had no information to talk about ‘bullying,'” he said. Ribalta has affirmed that it is a “multifactorial” case. “The causes are diverse, and this accumulation of things must be taken into account,” she stressed. In this sense, he assures that the environment “was very complicated, there was follow-up and attention from the Social Services.” Regarding possible racism, Ribalta regretted that this could have been the case and defends that Sallent is a “tolerant” town.
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The Sallent City Council has been in charge of supporting the family since the events occurred. It has also worked to expedite the procedures so that the grandparents of the twins, residing in Argentina, can come and, once they are here, they will be paid for their stay. In addition, it will also pay for burial expenses.
As for the girl who remains hospitalized, she explained that her condition is stable within a critical condition diagnosis, but “with hope of recovery.” According to her family environment, she would have significant lung injuries, but they trusted that she could recover.