The death of
Ezequiel Francisco Curaba (20)
, who lay dying for almost a day and a half after being electrocuted for trying to steal high-voltage cables in the southwest area of Rosario, had all kinds of comments on social networks.
However, there was a strong defense from his former teacher who in a Facebook post asked "
not to remember him like that
" and described him as a "sweet and good" being who "surgery" because he didn't even have enough to eat.
"I don't want them to remember him like that. He was Eze, my student. Our student.
He was very sweet and he walked with his car.
We had many mornings of math and laughter. He measured himself in everything, but he always smiled. The last few times have been difficult For our kids, he pulled his car.
He was doing surgery
. He liked stories, but not reading. It was good," wrote Melina Gigli, the teacher in the post that went viral.
And he continued: "Reading comments in newspaper notes, I see that they celebrate his hard and cruel death. He was pulling his car. Perhaps, the possibility of a few more pesos for the morphi... I don't know. He was so sweet and always "I smiled."
In the final part of the post, the teacher makes a severe self-criticism: "We are in debt. How cruel. He was doing surgery.
Hunger does not wait
. He was so sweet, he pulled his cart. And he who is free from sin, let him pull The first rock".
And the final phrase is devastating and descriptive: "So much pain."
The case became known on Sunday after Curaba was filmed by neighbors after receiving the tremendous electric shock throughout his body that burned 90% of his body.
He tried to steal high voltage cables in a ditch on 600 Perón Street, which led to an immediate hospitalization in the emergency hospital and the arrest of his 34-year-old brother, linked to the robbery.
The images of that young man zigzagging, dazed, and with almost his entire body in tatters went viral on the networks.
And with it, the malicious comments against the thief who had been electrocuted.
Most of them, without mercy.
Rosario: the meaningful post by teacher Melina Gigli that went viral on the networks.
"When I saw the images, I saw his face of terrible fear and contrary to what many think, some kids are also afraid," said the teacher at the Carlos Fuentealba school in the Santa Lucía neighborhood that Curaba attended.
In a conversation with Radio2, the teacher said that she received a lot of love after the publication on the social network: "Because of that post I received many invitations and very nice messages. But, the pain continues because I knew him, he was my student and he will remain in my heart. We all have the debt, one encounters the situation when the bomb explodes in your hand, we are late," he reflected.
And he described: "Sometimes you get a message at 11 at night from a mother who tells you that her son is not going to go to school the next day because his sneakers broke or because they ran out of gas."
The well drilled by the electricity concessionaire company in the southern area of Rosario where Curaba was electrocuted.
Photo: EPE
And he added: "The kids don't attend for those reasons, we can't understand it sometimes. The kids come to school hungry."
According to Gigli, the last times they had seen the young man, "he was walking around the northern part of the city, and when he was near the school, "he would visit them."
From the Teachers' Association of Santa Fe, a very painful statement was released, making visible in Curaba the situation of several marginalized young people.
"Another student who is leaving us, very young, almost a child, in the worst way. Ezequiel was not killed by the police like Jonatan Herrera or Pichón Escobar. Nor were drug traffickers killed him like Maite or Maxi Jerez. Ezequiel was "it killed poverty, inequality, the misery of a society that could not be more unjust," they wrote.
DP