Whatever the causes that on Tuesday afternoon led two 12-year-old twin girls to fall into the void from the balcony of their house in Sallent, one of the sisters dying while the other evolves favourably, what happened is so heartbreaking that the Mossos d'Esquadra investigate the origin. The case is prosecuted, the proceedings have been declared secret, and this Wednesday the mayor of the municipality, Oriol Ribalta, asked for absolute respect for the victims and their family, while admitting that the council had offered assistance to parents for a long time. of the little ones
In the place where the two sisters rushed, friends and neighbors filled the sidewalk with candles, flowers, stuffed animals and messages on Wednesday. "You have earned heaven, little justice." The Mossos d'Esquadra do not rule out any hypothesis, although this Wednesday Educació issued a statement ruling out that the investigators had identified a bullying situation. However, sources familiar with the investigation assured La Vanguardia that the two little girls were going through a bad time, an uncomfortable situation with some classmates practically since they arrived in the town of Sallent, with their parents and a younger brother, two years ago.
The insults and mockery for their accent were Argentine, and their origin began at school and had moved to the Llobregat institute they attended, and which this Wednesday activated its accompanying protocols for the victims' classmates. Kevin, a second cousin of the sisters, was the clearest in explaining what was going on. "Their parents spoke with the management of the school and the institute. They were two very good girls who did not mess with anyone but there was a group that laughed at them because of their accent. Two beautiful and small creatures who had not yet learned to live and that they were always smiling. They were having a hard time, and in fact they had time to go to the psychologist. But their parents were not aware that the situation was so serious. "
The problems of the little girls, the harassment and the insults intensified when one of the girls, Alana, precisely the one who died when she fell, asked at the Institute that she wanted to be called with a masculine name. The young woman had stated in her house that she wanted to start a sex change process. A decision that the parents assured the investigators yesterday that they were unaware, according to sources familiar with the case.
On Tuesday afternoon, while the mother worked in the town cafeteria and the father was messing around at one end of the house, the two sisters brought their chairs to a balcony and rushed into the void, according to La Vanguardia on Tuesday. Before, they wrote by hand two letters held by the researchers.
The event has caused consternation and impotence in the small town of Sallent, in Bages, which on Wednesday called for two minutes of silence attended by numerous residents. The consistory suspended all the acts of the carnival and reiterated its support for the family of the two little ones.
Before coming to Sallent, the family had lived in other Catalan municipalities. The couple suffered constant comings and goings, but now they were going through a moment of stability and were together, according to the same sources.
