As if it were a tragedy traced and when they are about to complete three months of the leap into the void of the Argentine twins who lived in a town in the province of Barcelona, the 12-year-old Russian twins who died when they fell from a sixth floor on Friday in Oviedo, Asturias, would also have suffered bullying.
It is one of the clues of the investigation about the motive that could have caused Alexandra and Anastasia to pretend to leave their house, an apartment on the fourth floor of Facetas 47 street in the neighborhood of La Ería, to go to school: in reality, they went up to the sixth and jumped into the void.
They did it from a window of the staircase that overlooks an interior courtyard of the building. They had left their school bags resting on the rest of the steps of the room, the floor in which they lived.
It was the desperate cries of his father, a 44-year-old Russian named Igor Zuev and settled in Oviedo for a long time, that alerted the neighbors.
At 8.55am the emergency services received the call. But the girls hadn't survived the fall since the sixth floor.
The tragedy of Anastasia and Alexandra coincides in a chilling way with the leap into the void of Leila and Alana, the Argentine twins who on February 21 threw themselves by the hand from the balcony of their house in the Catalan town of Sallent.
In the fall only Alana died. Leila was hospitalized until the end of March and is now recovering.
In both cases they were twin sisters, teenagers -12 years old- and immigrant families -from Argentina and Russia-.
If it is confirmed that the Russian twins were bullied, it would add another dramatic point in common.
Drawings of hangings?
"There was a leaf from the last window open and I deduced that one had been thrown away and then another. In the lifting of the bodies, I saw that one was face down and another was squatting," said Rosa, a neighbor of the building.
By going through the twins' things, the researchers would have found drawings of hangings.
"The twins were lovely, at recess they played with other children and one of them drew very well," said the father of a boy who was in sixth grade with Anastasia and Alexandra.
He says that the girls had celebrated the 12 a few days ago and were excited about the end-of-year trip to Madrid that the school had organized for this Tuesday.
Igor and his wife, Olga, are parents as well as a 10-year-old boy who was already in his fourth-grade class when the twins jumped into the void.
Since then, the couple has been receiving psychological and psychiatric assistance. Igor had to be transferred to the Central University Hospital of Asturias to stabilize him.
"It is a very integrated and perfectly normal family," said the Councilor for Public Safety of the City of Oviedo, José Ramón Prado.
The girls spoke perfect Spanish and Igor collaborated with aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion of February last year.
The Zuevs live four blocks from the public school in the neighborhood of La Ería, the district that lost the most neighbors in the last decade, according to the Oviedo City Council Registry. Today only 1,839 people populate this neighborhood almost attached to the football stadium where Real Oviedo plays.
A neighborhood hit by another tragedy
The mental health of young people and adolescents is once again at the forefront of debate in Spain. According to the National Institute of Statistics, between 2020 and 2021 suicides in children under 15 increased by 57 percent.
"Clearly, public health has to address the problem of mental health, especially in the younger stages," acknowledged the Minister of Territorial Policy and government spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez.
"You have to manage very tough situations," said Emma Alvarez, the principal of the La Eria high school, which is separated only by a fence from the elementary school attended by the twins.
The students of the institute have not yet recovered from the traumatic experience they went through in April last year, when a 14-year-old student of the institute, Erika Yunga, was stabbed on her way back from school.
The aggressor was her neighbor, Moldovan Igor Postolache, who after having harassed her for a while waited for her at the entrance of the building and stabbed her to death.
This Saturday, from very early, three candles burned at the door of the building on 47 Facetas Street where the twins lived.
Madrid. Correspondent
ACE
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