Leila jumped into the void but wanted to live.
She has been in intensive care for a week.
And she wants to live.
He hinted at it in the little handwritten letter he left next to his sister, Alana's.
"Apologies to everyone, you know how much 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 wherever she wants," wrote the 12-year-old girl before pulling her chair up to the balcony railing and jumping with her twin sister from a third floor in the Catalan town of Sallent, where they had moved with her family. from Mar del Plata in 2020.
It happened on Tuesday, February 21, in the afternoon, after the girls returned from the Llobregat de Sallent public school where, in September, they had started their first year of ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education).
The school is now being targeted for not having done anything to rescue them from the torment of bullying they experienced in class.
“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 this for the rest of my life and I made the decision not to continue, ”wrote Alana, the twin who died as soon as her body crashed against the asphalt.
The balcony from which the two Argentine twins jumped.
Photo @TribunaLibreES
Leila, on the other hand, "when she fell,
she put her hands down
and clung to life," said her grandmother.
Since then, she has been in intensive care at the Parc Taulí hospital in Sabadell, just over 50 kilometers from Sallent, the town of 6,700 inhabitants where Leila lived for three years with her parents, her twin sister and her younger brother.
In the hospital they confirmed to
Clarín
that, although the case of the Argentine twins became public, they will not give any information about Leila's state of health.
"What is known is because the family has allowed it to transcend," they say at the hospital.
It is known that when she fell, the girl suffered fractures in her arms, that she broke her jaw and that she has
a compromised lung
.
The doctors are considering operating on her again but will wait for her evolution in the next 48 hours to find out if they could do it.
Flowers in the place of the tragedy.
Photo @TribunaLibreES
Lucas and Maia, the girls' parents, hope that she will recover and that, as soon as she is released, they can
return to Argentina
.
They want to take Alana's ashes “home”.
Shock throughout Spain
The desperate decision of the Argentine twins of Sallent moves all of Spain.
The president of the government,
Pedro Sánchez
, referred to the issue in an interview: "As a father it seems terrible, dramatic," said Sánchez.
And he pointed to one of the things Alana was teased about: her willingness to be called Ivan and her intention to change her sex.
"It is important to recognize and protect with rights people and groups that do not have them, who are helpless and who need the commitment of public institutions," said the president of the PSOE-Podemos coalition that governs Spain in reference to LGTBI sexual minorities (Lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, and intersex).
Sánchez thus defended the controversial approval in the Spanish Parliament of the trans law, something that happened a few days before the case of the twins.
This law, among other things, allows self-determination for a change of sex from the age of 16.
This Tuesday, the spokesperson for the Catalan government, Patricia Plaja, also apologized on behalf of the government for what led Alana and Leila to throw themselves from the balcony of their house seeking to put an end to the emotional and psychological suffering that tormented them.
"I would like to express my apologies on behalf of the entire Govern (Government, in Catalan) because a suicide or attempted suicide by a minor is
a failure of the system
," said Plaja.
"We assume all the responsibility that falls to us if, as the professionals said, it was not detected on time (bullying)," he added.
“We are concerned about the seriousness of this case.
It is difficult to find words for such extremely painful events that affect the suffering of so many people”, he pointed out.
"Harassment of minors and the approach to mental health have been a priority for this Government since the legislature began: it is a key issue," he said.
In Sallent, the balconies of the building where the twins lived were filled with flags against bullying.
Leila jumped into the void but wanted to live.
Hopefully she makes it.
Madrid. Correspondent
MG