“We are in a state of shock, it was a huge blow.” Emma Álvarez, director of the La Ería Institute of Secondary Education (IES), where Erika goes to class, said: 14-year-old girl stabbed while returning home in the Oviedo district of Vallobín At noon on Tuesday he summed up the sentiments of the centre, who had trouble digesting the unfortunate news this morning. “This makes you wonder where humanity is going…” he said sadly at the door of the institute.
He said this minutes after attending a show of respect at the ceremony. schoolyard Attended by all 5th and 6th grade primary school students, ESO, Bachiller and all students receiving AP education at the center. They all formed a kind of human chain in the courtyard and a giant white balloon was placed in the middle. At the end of the observed three minutes of silence, Erika’s two friends were cut off from the rope connecting the balloon to a piece of cement, flying the balloon and disappearing into the sky.
“Looks up to date, but it isn’t, Erika was the typical student any teacher would want in the classroom, she was everyone’s friend, she helped, she belonged to that group of students you pulled up when someone came along and you needed help. She was always there,” Álvarez said, visibly touched. “His family are wonderful people. They are always intertwined with the center, they are broken by pain”.
The center’s management also had to pay special attention to Erika’s closest friends. They accompanied him home. “There are four girls, five of whom are with him, they are obviously looking for answers today. They question what would have happened if we had gone earlier, hadn’t had fun in the park… The mind and the solution to something he doesn’t have,” he said.
“Erika, we love you. You are not alone. We miss you.” These are the words Erika’s classmates wrote on a black pancake, when the 14-year-old girl was stabbed on her way home at noon on Tuesday in the Oviedo district of Vallobín. His friends at the IES de la Ería, where they all studied, wanted to commemorate him today with a banner on the front of the institute, with their heads bowed and moving visibly.
Crime
Erika Yunga left class on Tuesday, and when she reached the portal, she rang her house bell like every day. Her father and brother were inside the family home, and seeing that Erika was taking a long time to get up, her brother decided to go downstairs to check the reason for the delay. Upon reaching the descent of the first, a trace of blood was found leading to the gate of 1ºE. Her father went downstairs and when they saw that no one was opening the door of that floor, they decided to contact the National Police. Erika’s heart 31-year-old Moldovan origin 1ºE stopped being beaten when her neighbor approached her on the stairs and stabbed her for an unknown reason. The man who was arrested for murder and urgently operated on in HÜCA for injuries to his chest, face and neck. His condition is “serious” and he is in intensive care.
The victim of the Vázquez de Mella crime, Erika’s family came to Asturias from Ecuador more than two decades ago. Seven years ago, René Yunga and Alba Alvarado landed in the Archdiocese’s “Esta Hora”, “in debt, without paperwork, without friends, without acquaintances, with no one to help you,” as they describe it. weekly info. With strict religious convictions, the couple went to the nuns’ home of Mary Immaculate, where they found crucial support in Sister Alicia, whom Alba A. assures “treated me like a mother.” The nun helped two immigrants find jobs. This allowed them to settle permanently in the area and expand their family: the couple, who had already arrived in Oviedo with one child, had two more in Asturias, including Erika. Over the years, the couple wanted to repay some of the aid they received when they arrived in Asturias, and they both joined a group of volunteers from the Secretariat for Pastoral Care of Immigrants in the diocese of Oviedo and helped other foreigners who arrived there. in the region. to find a job.