"Of Avelino Fierro, juvenile prosecutor of León, writer of newspapers and poems, cartoonist, music lover, inveterate reader, fan of photography and painting, collector of books and friends, walker, conversationalist, at times, you can say anything less than leading a mediocre life. " To give the reason to Julio Llamazares, his countryman and Leonese colleague, whose portrait is that, this juvenile prosecutor makes the books one of his judicial instruments. Before sending the books to the reformatory, and if the children do not start reading or writing, then the trial is imposed.
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He believes that books serve "to raise the bar of life", to make it not derail.
The life of the children is threatened "by addictions that, as some say, turn this culture into a criminogen , full of hurry to arrive without preparation or merits ... We encourage adults, as exhibitionists with raincoats, teaching kids our shame of all kinds, banishing calm reading, the disappearance of the humanities, a hurried life that goes through business and not through study in a time when nobody knows for sure where it is going. "
This rush to take has its reflection in the premature crimes. Fierro fights them by making them read or reflect in writing on the facts that take them to court. "Just as I am doing a carca, a boomer, as the kids call us, that we are not able to explain anything to them. Hey, I tell you, we don't know where we are going, but we know where we come from and we want to tell you! we help. And yet it is hard for us to be left. " He doesn't have a preset list of books that can get the best out of the kids, isolate them from the bad things around them. "I talk about classics that are not very brave. Sometimes we talk to them about The Tree of Science , about Pío Baroja, or what is recommended in schools, so they can think. Many mornings, if we have time I ask them for their tastes and I get into the figure of the teacher-teacher. As George Steiner said, we have the right to raise the bar of your tastes and your joys. "
"Few things can be as rewarding as enjoying the creations of the spirit of those who have preceded us. Music, reading, literature, adolescent love ... Are there more things worthwhile at those ages? I can't think of it. " His books (A room in Europe, Half life ...) are, he says, the work of "a grateful reader." Are the boys grateful that he tries to get them away from crime by making them read? "I think so, because many do not return to court. Sometimes they ask us how many we have re-socialized with this extrajudicial task. I do not take account, the statistics are for politicians. I do feel gratitude when I meet them, sometimes in the early in the morning, and they themselves express what they feel for the hand we have extended to them. Why can't these pleasures discover all these mendruguillos that are all the time with their cell phones, smoking Maria's feet ? "
"Yonqui of reading", Avelino Fierro says that reading "raises the bar of life." It assures you a trip away from the addictions that have made society "in a hurry."