On the asphalt of Estació street where the 12-year-old Argentine sisters fell, who on Tuesday jumped into the void from the balcony of their house, in the Barcelona town of Sallent, the neighbors set up a small altar with candles, flowers and
messages
of
empathy
towards the twins who woke up this Saturday damaged, crossed out and scribbled with inscriptions rejecting the family from Mar del Plata that had moved to the town in 2020.
“Squatters”,
someone wrote on a banner that read
“Stop bullying”
, alluding to the reason that the investigations point to as to what could have been the trigger that led the girls to make the decision to attempt suicide.
Alana died when she fell.
Leila survived, but she suffered injuries and blows for which she remains hospitalized.
Although she is still in serious condition, since Friday the doctors began trying to wake her up and, according to her relatives, she began
to show small reactions
.
Another banner stamped with colored hands surrounding the inscription “We don't want you to keep your mouths shut.
Justice” was marred with
black spray.
The graffiti with insults appeared on the improvised altar that was set up at the door of the building where the Argentine twins lived.
“You have earned heaven, little one.
Justice”, was the first inscription that appeared above the entrance to the building hours after the girls pulled chairs up to the balcony railing and jumped.
Since then, the girls' neighbors and classmates have been
leaving letters, more lit candles and even a funeral wreath.
Lucas and Maia, the parents of Alana and Leila, found out this Saturday that they had spoiled these spontaneous displays of affection towards their daughters while they were
watching over Alana,
the twin who wanted to be called Iván and who died when she fell from the balcony.
For the intimate and simple ceremony, the
girls'
maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather traveled from Argentina and arrived on time.
On Friday afternoon, a group of students from the Llobregat de Sallent Public Institute, where Alana and Leila were in their first year of secondary school -which in Spain is called ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education-), marched through the streets of the town of 6,700 inhabitants
,
20 of which are Argentines, according to the municipal register.
They blew a whistle and carried colored banners.
“We ask for justice.
Stop bullying”,
they wrote on a red cardboard.
“Leila, get well soon.
Everyone in Sallent is waiting for you”, said a violet.
"Justice for Alana and Leila", it read on another light blue one.
“We are here, concentrating on the school because
this is where the bullying of the children began
,” said a student on behalf of all those who gathered at the school gate.
"We do not want there to be more bullying," he added.
We are already tired of suicides because of all this.
If this is not stopped, we are going to fight until the end,
until the school closes.
Here there has always been bullying, ”he denounced.
Before throwing themselves from the third floor of the apartment where they lived with their parents and a brother two years younger than them, the twins
left handwritten letters.
“I'm tired of being bullied at school, I can't stand it.
I want to be happy, but obviously I am going to suffer from this for the rest of my life and I made the decision not to continue ”, Alana would have written, who had not yet told her parents that she wanted to start a sex
change .
She had cut her hair and at school she asked to be called Iván.
"Apologies to everyone, you know what I love my sister, I saw all the bullying she suffers, I'm going to do what she decides, I'm going to accompany her
where she wants
," Leila would have written.
This Sunday there will be a mass.
The parents of the twins want to
take Alana's ashes to Argentina.
They plan to do it as soon as her other daughter leaves the Parc Talud hospital in Sabadell.
They dream of Leila's recovery.
Soon.
Madrid.
Correspondent
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