It was an almost intimate Moment, in which the parents peace of mind. Most of the cameras of the TV stations were mined for this evening, as the news came: Julen is no longer alive. Hoping, Praying, pleading that it was all in vain. Twelve and a half days after his fall in a illegal dug a borehole on the outskirts of the southern Spanish village of Totalán the two-year-old Boy was recovered from a depth of more than 70 meters dead. Until recently, the leaders had stressed that they believed in a possible rescue of the child. But the optimism was not rewarded. At 1:25 am on early Saturday morning, the assistant found the lifeless body of the boy.

all the speculation are terminated, whether Julen was in the hole. Shortly after his Disappearance, doubts as to the Version of the parents had become loud, that he had slipped into the narrow shaft. The entrance of the borehole was 25 cm in diameter, which corresponds approximately to the Size of a plate for a main dish. “Why fit in there” could be heard again and again. The parents had already threatened to pull out of those of court to the responsibility that had brought such rumors in circulation. A post-mortem examination will now have the cause of death to determine and answer the question, how long the child has lived may be, after it is the afternoon of the 13th. January had slipped into the throat. Only when this procedure is completed, the investigators of the Guardia Civil is also a crime.

Julen was recovered dead: The two-year-old fell in the South of Spain when Playing in a well shaft. Video: Tamedia/AFP/Reuters

It is a strange mixture of sadness and relief came over the misfortune of the mountain, when it was clear that the hoped-for miracle was not there. Helpers were sitting exhausted on the floor, and supported their heads on the knees. Up to 300 people had participated in the last twelve days of the attempted rescue. Also two helicopters were flown in the course of Friday. One of them had brought explosives from Seville, who came in the rescue shaft, another was equipped with medical equipment and ready to fly the child immediately to a hospital, would Julen survived.

friends and supporters of the family had gathered in the last days, to pray together with the parents, and sing. Even from three hours away by car Seville complete Strangers arrived. Spanish Folklore echoed through the darkness. Many of those Present could not hold back in these moments her tears. When the parents pulled back in a tent, sang with the group for a very long time.

Round-the-clock of psychologists

care of The parents, the officers were denied in the last hours of the use of the access to the borehole. Also, shielding them from the press. They experienced only from afar, like the eight miners from Asturias inch-by-inch Rock from the Querstreb in the direction of the place proposed, where Julen was finally found. They were the First that learned of the death of the child.

José Rosello and Victoria Garcia have been cared for during the entire twelve days of around-the-clock of psychologists. From circles of the family was to hear that, but especially the presence of Juan José Cortes was, in fact, the parents well in the past almost two weeks. More than ten years ago, the supervisor himself had lost his five-year-old daughter and then, an organization founded in, the other parents helps to get over the loss of their children.

“The parents are crazy strong. I’m trying to make the courage to, as long as the Boy is not found,” said Cortes, a Friday lunch. “One way or the other, you need to get on with your life. And you can’t blame yourself.”

“Nothing to what it was before, is in the Slightest with, the use of comparable”

a Few hours before Julen was found, defended the work of the President of the provincial fire brigade of Málaga, Francisco Delgado Bonilla, who is also a politician in the new Andalusian government party PP, the recovery. “There were no wrong choices. The conditions under which here are worked extremely hard,” said Bonilla.

Independent architects and engineers had made very early after the beginning of the Work, the whole strategy of the managers in question. Your offers of help were ignored. The critics accused the policy, to have a in practice, inexperienced theorists as a lead engineer and used, the have wasted a lot of days, because he continued, among other things, on the wrong device. Bonilla reacted indignantly to the allegations. “Such a case, under such conditions, on such grounds there has never been. Nothing, what was there before, is in the Slightest with this application.” (Editorial Tamedia)

Created: 26.01.2019, 10:18 PM