On February 21, two sisters threw themselves from the third floor of the building where they lived. One of them died, the second was hospitalized in serious condition.
A chilling drama. What happened during the afternoon of February 21, in the Spanish town of Sallent, located about sixty kilometers from Barcelona? That day, two 12-year-old twin sisters threw themselves from the third floor of their building, according to press reports from the Catalonian regional police and quoted by Le Figaroin an article published on February 23. One of the teenagers died instantlywhile the second was hospitalized in serious condition.
The law enforcement agencies have opened an investigation in an attempt to shed light on their motives. Accident, voluntary fall… For the time being, we still do not know the reasons for this tragedy. Asked about this, the regional department in charge of Education said that “the establishment [scolaire] did not have no particular issue of school bullying detected »but “had provided psychological and orientation support to the two students since the beginning of the school year”noted Le Figaro who quotes his words.
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However, the Catalan daily La Vanguardia reported the testimony of a relative of the two teenagers – who arrived two years earlier in Spain, with their family, from Argentina – who assures that they were victims of insults and mockery from their classmates. Taunts that would have grown even more when one of the two daughters – the one who lost her life – would have confided to feeling like a boyaccording to several media, including El País. For the time being, the Spanish police are not ruling out any leads.
The consequences of school harassment can be dramatic. Early January, the suicide of Lucas, a 13-year-old schoolboy, had moved the French. The teenager had ended his life because of the bullying he suffered because of his sexual orientation. More recently, on the night of January 28 to 29, a teenager had jumped out of the window from the 4th floor of her building located in Toulouse. According to her mother, the young girl would also have been harassed in her school.