Oviedo (EFE) an event in which the National Police ruled out in principle the intervention of third parties.
The events occurred around 9:00 a.m. in a building located at number 47 Calle Facetos, in the Ería neighborhood of the Asturian capital, and, according to sources close to the investigation, sources close to the investigation have pointed out to EFE, although the minor They lived on the fourth floor, the window that was found open and from which they would have jumped into the void is on the sixth.
According to these sources, the girls left the house with the apparent intention of going to school; however, they left their backpacks on the landing before throwing themselves out of the sixth floor window on the interior stairs.
From the Superior Police Headquarters of Asturias, the inspector and press spokesman Pedro Aguado has advanced that, “in principle”, there has been no intervention by third parties.
“It seems that there is no intervention by third parties and that we can speak of a very tragic and very unfortunate event,” said the police spokesman, who, at the insistence of the press, has avoided referring to what happened as an accident and has insisted on describing it as a “tragic event”.
The inspector has stressed that all the data is not yet available “in a reliable way” because the brigades of the Scientific Police and the Judicial Police continue to collect information.
Parents are “undone”
According to sources close to the investigation, the family of Russian origin had been living in the Asturian capital for years and the girls, students at the Ería school, had a 10-year-old brother who was already at the school at the time of the event.
For their part, the parents, of whom it is unknown if they were on the floor when the girls fell out of the window, are “destroyed” and have received psychological care at the portal after learning what happened, as reported by the councilor for Citizen Security, José Ramón Prado.
Prado has had the opportunity to speak with a neighbor and a good friend of the family who has assured him that they are “very normal” people, that they are “very integrated” and “very affectionate”.
This friend has been “very affected” and has reported that a few days ago he had been at the twins’ birthday, the councilor added.
Two days of mourning and suspension of the campaign in Oviedo
The mayor of Oviedo, Alfredo Canteli, who has also gone to the scene and has expressed his sadness at the loss of the two girls, has decreed two days of mourning.
Likewise, all the parties that are competing in the municipal and regional elections on May 28 have suspended the planned campaign events in the Asturian capital during the two days of mourning.
Youth mental health care
From Huesca, the Minister for Territorial Policy and Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, has described what happened as “chilling” and has admitted that, despite the tools put in place to deal with this type of situation, “clearly, the Public health has to address the mental health problem, especially in the youngest stages”.
Along the same lines, the President of the Principality, Adrián Barbón, has said he feels “dismayed” and, although he has warned that we still have to wait for the investigation to clarify the circumstances surrounding this tragic event, he has recognized that further improvement must be made. everything related to the mental health of young people and children.
This tragedy occurs three months after a similar event occurred in Sallent (Barcelona), where on February 21 two twin girls, also 12 years old, threw themselves into the void from the balcony of their house on the third floor. One of the girls died and the other was seriously injured. EFE
