Drama of the twins: the strong precedent of the Kira case in Barcelona and what the Justice said

“Surely the father heard screams, went down to the street and saw his daughters there, on the ground, as happened to us.

I'm in contact with the parents of the twins.

I know what they feel”, says to

José Manuel López Viñuela, father of Kira, a 15-year-old teenager who on May 19, 2021, at eight in the morning, left her house, in Barcelona, ​​and, in Once going to school,

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Kira suffered bullying.

Because of her tone of voice, because of how she pronounced English, because of the way she put on her makeup.

Her parents had denounced it to the school authorities and her school, Jesús, Maria i Josep, of the Pare Manyanet religious congregation,

.

This Monday it was learned that, one day before the Argentine twins jumped into the void in Sallent, in Tarragona, which also belongs to the autonomous community of Catalonia, a 15-year-old autistic teenager who endured teasing at school, attempted

.

He is hospitalized.

Since he lost his only daughter, José Manuel López Viñuela has been fighting for a law against bullying in Spain and, much to his regret - "I would give anything to not be talking about bullying and child suicide," he says -, He became a benchmark for families living through the torment that he and Lucas and Maia, the parents of the 12-year-old Argentine twins who jumped from the balcony of their home in Sallent, a town 74 on Tuesday, are going through today. kilometers from Barcelona.

“We exchanged messages.

They texted me and I left them a voice message.

I didn't insist on talking more.

They were burying the girl.

It is too early.

When you need something, here I am.

They do not know Spanish laws as I know them ”, says José Manuel, who has just suffered another blow: the Barcelona Court archived the criminal case that he and his wife had initiated.

Because

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Kira López and her parents.

The girl, bullied at school, threw herself into the void in 2021.

"Adolescence is a critical moment for many young people and jokes, hurtful words or the use of social networks to mock their peers are part of their day to day," the Barcelona Court justified the bullying that tormented Kira so

until who decided to commit suicide.

In Spain it is not punishable

"They are doing the same thing with Sallent's twins as with Kira, denying bullying at school," says José Manuel.

“They are going to question

, if they were okay.

They have done all this to me, ”she laments.

“How dare they question parents?

The girls were not doing well at school.

Spot.

She is already.

If you want guilt, there you have it," he says.

As parents, on top of the fact that our daughters have died,

.

It is shameful."

“There is a great similarity with the case of my daughter.

They have left a note.

My daughter also said goodbye.

But they have not left names among the harassers - he points out -.

There is not a bad, very bad identified but it could have been many boys, many girls.

As there is no clearly identified wrongdoing, what has happened is not punishable in Spain."

Although he speaks slowly and serenely, José Manuel's tone changes when he tells: “This is what happened with my daughter.

The judge acknowledges that they made fun of the timbre of her voice, her English accent, that if she put on makeup and they called her 'Naranjito' -he lists, with desolation-.

The judge recognized the insults, but since

, this is not listed as a crime.

And among children under 14 years of age, in Spain, not even the Prosecutor's Office can intervene.

Protocols that were never activated

José Manuel says that he offered his help to the parents of Alana, the twin who died, and Leila, who is still hospitalized, because she knows very well how the educational inspection works in Catalonia.

"The educational inspection gives total credibility to what the school says," he clarifies.

In this case, the first thing they have said is that there has been no bullying because no anti-bullying protocol was applied.”

According to him, “the first time a teacher heard the first mockery because of the Argentine accent, he should have activated one of the protocols that exist in schools called 'For hate crimes'

.

“The first thing the school management had to do is call the Prosecutor's Office and the Mossos d'Esquadra.

Making fun of a foreigner because he is from another country is a hate crime.

Why didn't they apply it?

They have to explain themselves, ”he says.

And regarding the will that Alana would have expressed to want to change her sex and call herself Iván, a reason that also earned her ridicule, López adds that the schools also have a protocol that is for the protection of the LGTBI

.

“Why didn't they apply it to this girl?

It is that they have been left to their own devices”, says José Manuel.

And he adds: “There is the

, which is omission of relief, that is, looking the other way.

That is in the Penal Code.

There is someone who has looked the other way -he emphasizes-.

Whoever has made those decisions has participated in the death of the girls.”

“They are young parents who have come here to look for a future and the girls have not been allowed to fit in at school - summarizes José Manuel -.

After a few days, I'll tell them not to bother filing a criminal complaint.

, for damages.”

“Here the main cause is that they were not allowed to adapt at school.

Nothing else.

There are many families without resources, who live as squatters, and their children do not throw themselves off the balcony," he says.

These girls, if they have thrown themselves, it is because every time they went to school,

that was only hell for them.

In the same class there will be students who will surely be fine.

But they had their own hell."

From her point of view, “other girls may react differently, but these girls, like my Kira, thought life wasn't worth living.

Because they thought their life would always be like this.

Under the slogan "It's not a children's thing", José Manuel asks for signatures on the change.org platform for the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports to get Parliament to approve a law against bullying.

It has already gathered more than

.

His petition is one of the most signed on the platform that collects citizen petitions.

"Let's not forget: A child who commits suicide does not want to die, what he wants is

," says José Manuel in his petition (https://www.change.org/p/mi-hija-se-suicid% C3%B3-with-15-a%C3%B1os-bullying-is-not-a-thing-of-ni%C3%B1-s-law-of-school-bullying-and-educationgob-sanchezcastejon-noescosadeni% C3%B1os-stopbullyingforkira).

"I have cried at home for the twins and for the one who died," he confesses to me.

And I have told my girl, that she is in heaven, to help her."

Madrid.

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