Every time a candle goes out, someone lights it again or puts in a new one.
The residents of Carrer de la Estació, in the small Barcelona municipality of
Sallent,
can no longer walk through the section in front of number 4, full of
bouquets of flowers, posters and stuffed animals in memory of Alana and Leila
.
The 12-year-old twins who decided to throw themselves into the abyss last Tuesday at half past three in the hope of ending a life they had barely begun to live.
The sisters' friends have found in that small
improvised altar
, which this Saturday was vandalized with graffiti, a meeting point in which
to remember them, mourn them and vindicate them
.
No one can deny that the two twins
suffered from bullying
, a bullying that began as soon as the family, marriage, Maia and Lucas, and their three children, the twins Alana and Leila, and Amadeo, who is now ten years old, settled in in Sallent, after passing through Reus.
They arrived shortly before the pandemic, leaving their native Mar de Plata in search of economic stability that they did not find in Spain.
In Sallent they were at the home of Cristina's mother-in-law, Kevin's wife, a distant cousin of the couple who was the first to say out loud on Tuesday that the sisters had thrown themselves into the void due to the bullying they suffered.
They entered the apartment on Calle Estació like squatters.
The financial situation of the family was complex.
She worked a few hours a day in a cafeteria in the center of town and he, after a time in a chicken shop and a hardware store,
had lost his job
.
In fact, he was at home when his daughters brought their chairs to the balcony, left their farewell letters, and jumped into the void holding hands.
The door of the house of the Argentine twins who fell from the third floor became an improvised altar.
That instability at home surely didn't help the emotional breakdown that Alana suffered especially.
She had recently transferred to her closest friends from
her institute her will to be called Ivan
.
He felt like a boy, but he still hadn't conveyed that need to her parents.
In fact, the day before ending everything, the little girl
had an appointment with a psychologist
at the Althaia Foundation, but she missed the seven-thirty bus that was supposed to take her to Manresa.
Still, the girl phoned to apologize and the clinic receptionist scheduled a new appointment for the following Monday at the same time.
It makes your hair stand on end to think what would have happened if Alana hadn't missed that bus.
The same chill as listening to
the little girl's best friend
, who said goodbye to her two sisters at the door of her house that Tuesday, between big hugs, kisses and laughter.
The young woman assures that
Alana was insulted, they laughed at her and Leia;
but that the first stood up and faced her stalkers.
Yard companions who increased their mockery and laughter
when Alana began her inner transformation,
externalized with a radical haircut that did not go unnoticed by anyone.
She soon found out in her Institute that she wanted to be called Ivan, and
her bullies called her Ivana
and Tomboy to piss her off.
Her emotional springs did not know how to withstand her pressure and all those who should have been aware of her situation failed by not interpreting how broken the girl was inside and foreseeing what she would be capable of doing.
Leia, who is recovering little by little from her physical injuries, because she will have time to deal with her emotional ones, only accompanied her because
she had never left her alone, not even at that moment.
Sallent/Special for Clarín
SC
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