The twin who survived following falling from a third floor in the city of Barcelona opened her eyes when she heard her father’s voice, according to the minor’s grandfather.
“She moved her eyelids when she heard her father’s voice,” said Gustavo Lima, the twins’ grandfather, adding: “Leila is fighting for her life.. They are going to put her back to sleep because she has a broken jaw. She’s encouraging, but she still has a long way to go.”
The minor under 12 years of age has been hospitalized since last Tuesday at the Parc Taulí Hospital in the city of Sabadell, when together with Alana, who was in a process of gender identity transition and asked to be named as Iván, they decided to take their own life. and jump into the void.
The tragic story of the twins and the desperate trip of their grandparents to Spain
In radio statements, and before leaving for Spain to be reunited with her son, Lima commented: “They mightn’t move her the day before because they were afraid, she had a very tight lung. Yesterday she had an improvement and today they are going to try to wake her up so they can make the cures. He has a broken jaw and it is the first thing they want to cure”.
In addition, the minor’s grandfather said that they suffered strong bullying: “The bullying started because they were ArgentineThey had an Argentine accent. And that got worse when Alana wanted to call herself Ivan and dress like a boy. That was it, literally.”
The heartbreaking testimony of the grandfather of the twins overwhelmed by bullying: “My granddaughter asked me to return to the country”
After what happened, two written letters and two chairs were found at the family’s home that they might have used to jump off, for which it is suspected that it might have been a collective suicide, although for the moment that hypothesis has not been confirmed in any way. official.
The man also said that Alana in his letter asked for forgiveness and confessed that “she had made that decision because she might not stand the bullying she suffered due to her decision to be called Iván and to be transgender. She said that she might not stand it anymore and that she wanted to leave this world “.
“Instead of calling her Iván, they called her Ivana. She might not overcome the bullying. She wanted to be happy and felt that if she might not be happy when she was little, she would not be able to grow up either,” said Lima.
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