One of them died instantly, while the other was taken to hospital in serious condition, added police, who are launching an investigation. This drama aroused great emotion in the country, where several leading media outlets claimed that the two sisters may have been the victims of ridicule at their school. “Since the pandemic, we have been observing an increase in self-destructive behavior among young people, and especially young people,” worried the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, on Thursday, February 23, while calling for waiting for the end of the investigation to understand the precise circumstances surrounding the tragedy . “We are working with all local authorities so that any case” of harassment at school “alerts the entire administration and we can provide the best responses,” she added.
mockery
The two young girls arrived with their families from Argentina two years ago, reports the Catalan daily La Vanguardia, which quotes a relative as saying they were mocked and insulted by their classmates at school. According to several media outlets, including El Pais, the country’s first general newspaper, these taunts have increased since one of the sisters said she felt like a boy.
The regional department in charge of education assured that “the institution did not identify any particular problem of harassment in the school” but “provided psychological and guidance support to the two students from the beginning of the school year”.