“We don’t know what could have happened, they were beautiful girls”. No one could make sense of the death of 12-year-old twins Anastasia and Alejandra, who were found dead at La Ería school in Oviedo after falling from the sixth floor of their apartment building at number 48 this morning. Look for directions. They were good students, played with all the children in the garden, and spoke Spanish very well, despite their Russian origin. The same was true for his 10-year-old brother, who was a student at the same centre. So when the siren announced the end of classes at two o’clock in the afternoon, no one could find an answer: “How could such a thing happen?”
The parents of the little girls’ classmates had the same story: they had been at La Ería for several years, and both they and their families were “very friendly and charming.” Nobody knows that there are cases of harassment in the center. Quite the opposite. Sixth grades, the twins’ course, were counting the hours to go on a study trip. The four-day trip was scheduled to depart for Madrid on Tuesday. “They were selling ballots to cover expenses,” they claimed.
“I saw them at recess and they were always playing with the other kids, like the others,” said Fernando Díaz Palacio, the father of one of the twins’ classmates. “One of them drew very well. My son always said he would love to draw like him,” he said of Anastasia and Alejandra.like a tooth as two drops of water, so they wore a different colored bow in their hair to be distinguished by their classmates and teachers at home.
All morning in La Ería there was a silence unworthy of a school. The patio, guarded by several agents of the National Police, was free of children, play, or movement. At 11:41 the silence was broken. At that time, employees of the Family and Women’s Care Unit (UFAM) of the National Police, Ministry of Health and Social Services, came to the school accompanying a couple who were very close to the children’s parents. About 15 minutes later, the twins left the building with their younger brother, a fourth-year student, and another boy, the son of these family friends.
“You have to manage very difficult situations”Emma Álvarez, director of the La Ería institute, complained about the dire situation at the school, the center of which is separated only by a fence. Álvarez certainly faced a similar situation a year ago when 32-year-old Moldovan Igor Postolache attacked his 14-year-old neighbor Erika, a student at IES de La Ería.
The school was calm again until the siren sounded to announce the end of the day. Many of the twins’ classmates, who received psychological help in the classroom in the morning, went to their parents crying and were visibly affected by what happened. They complained that “it is very difficult to explain, very difficult” families very concerned about the emotional impact of the situation on minors.
The central administration refused to comment on the tragedy, which is currently being investigated by the National Police.