In the last lines of his farewell letter there was an appeal: “Please, Stop bullying“Let people be as they are.” Shortly before she left the world to throw herself into the sea, she turned to those bullies who had made her life hell for years.
He wrote to them: “Dear bullies, you know who you are. I, Claudia, Ratatouille (Like the little mouse from the Disney animated movie Mr. Dr). I hope each of you knows the damage your actions have caused. You got one A young girl with high self-esteem With high capabilities and I crushed him Until she can no longer get out of bed and It leads her to commit suicide. Yes, you are students of 2002 from Asunción College in Gijón. I don't care if you are the children of celebrities, or have more than 10,000 followers on social media, or play the victim. you suck.”
It's Friday, April 28, 2023. Claudia Gonzalez Álvarez is 20 years old, has left her career in psychology, lives in Gijón and has a passion GalgosGreyhounds are native to Spain. He puts into words his suffering in an Instagram post. Then he hung up the phone, went out, climbed Santa Catalina Hill, and threw himself into the waves. There's no one at home. Her father, Rodolfo, is out of the house, and her mother, Belén, is having a conversation with the psychiatrist who received Claudia the day before. When a friend of her daughter called Belen to warn her about the social media post she had just made, she rushed home to find several photos on the dining room table. Message to everyone: There are messages for mother, father, brother, friend, uncles. But Claudia is not there. The police found his body the next morning.
Belén confesses to journalist Pedro Simón De El mondo“Lee in that letter said that He couldn't stand life“And that she was a burden to us, and that she was so proud of her mother, and please be so happy.” Claudia's whole school life was marked by bullying. Already at the age of five, she told her mother that a girl in her rhythmic gymnastics class was teasing her and He didn't stop pushing her. Shortly thereafter, Claudia is the only one in the class excluded from invitations to a birthday party. As she grew up, her classmates continued to make fun of her. They laugh at her teeth and call her: Ratatouille. They create a WhatsApp group and use a pinned photo as the image: the body of a Disney mouse with Claudia's face.
The mother still tells the Spanish newspaper: “If we do not change it in the first year of ISO (Compulsory secondary educationIt is attended by ages 12 to 16 years Mr. Dr) It was because she did not want to be separated from a small group of friends who They were his refuge. The only thing we were able to get was a semester transfer in the second year. The third Esso was terrible anyway.” But in the fourth year, Claudia leaves school and moves to two different institutions.
to”They made her think she was ugly“She was afraid of meeting new people, rarely left the house, and struggled to make friends,” Belen continues. “Claudia was an outstanding student. She got 9 and 10, but everything she suffered greatly harmed her in her studies. She could barely concentrate. She was undergoing treatment, taking drugs, and was unable to obtain the degree necessary to enter psychology (…) He considered it a failure“, even if you then enter the next cycle.”
In 2022, Claudia began cutting off her arms and attempted suicide twice. And that year, in Spain, Suicide is the leading cause of death among people under 30 years of ageIn front of road accidents and tumors: 75 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19, that is, 41.5 percent more than in 2021, committed suicide. Nearly a year after Claudia's suicide, the family wants to reopen the case, which the juvenile prosecutor's office had already closed, and begin reopening the case. Civil lawsuit against the college.