Oviedo, April 30 (EFE).- The Asturian Ministry of Education and the Gijón City Council have expressed this Sunday their rejection of bullying as well as their confidence that the investigation will clarify what happened in the case of the 20-year-old girl found dead yesterday at the foot of the Santa Catalina hill.
The body appeared a day after the family reported the disappearance of the former student from La Asunción school, a center that has expressed its commitment to the “fight against bullying.”
The young woman’s remains will be cremated this afternoon at the Gijón funeral home, the city where the funeral will take place tomorrow, Monday.
The Minister of Education, Lydia Espina, has transferred her “total, clear and resounding” condemnation of the cases of bullying, and has defended that the centers must be “safe spaces”, since they are the “second home” of the students , and the space in which they “spend more time” after their homes.
“From this incident, the Ministry will analyze and investigate what happened and we will review everything that happened,” reported Espina, who has encouraged the educational community to “fight together” against bullying, against which he has requested “not be complicit” and “support the victims”.
The Ministry of Education works to create safe spaces, which “is not always achieved”, and which it regrets with “total clarity”.
He stressed that Asturias has an anti-bullying protocol that is “constantly updated”, in which “emphasis” has been placed this year, and that he has warned that it should be used “whenever necessary”, since that it is “for that” and “avoid cases” like the one that has just occurred.
Espina has also mentioned the implementation in this second quarter of the suicide prevention protocol, which addresses prevention as well as how to act if there is a school with “a case of imminent risk”.
MAYOR OF GIJÓN: “TERRIBLE AND UNFORTUNATE”
The mayoress of Gijón, Ana González, has considered the death of the young woman as a “terrible and unfortunate” event, which “seems to be due to despair over a situation of harassment that could have led her to commit suicide.”
After expressing her “solidarity and affection” to the young woman’s family, the councilor has considered that “there is no small harassment, nor action that can be justified to provoke laughter, nor for any discrepancy with another person.”
González has regretted “very much” what has happened and hopes that “it can be clarified who led” the young woman to that situation.