Two-year-old Julien died of severe head injuries three months ago, immediately after falling into a narrow well. As the final report of the responsible pathologists now showed, the boy had lived on January 13 after the disaster in the southern Spanish Totalán only a few minutes. The experts concluded that using the rescuer with a pickaxe could be partly responsible for the child's death, as was suggested in a February report.
The text was written by the architect Jesús María Flores, who had already criticized the rescue mission in the past. The lawyers of the finca owner, on whose property the accident had happened, had then submitted this thesis to the competent judge.
The Spanish newspaper "El Mundo" quoted the judiciary, according to which, however, no corresponding wounds were found on the skull of the child at the autopsy. In addition, work with the hoe would have begun only four hours after the fall. Julen was already dead by then.
The boy had fallen into an over 100-meter-deep, illegally dug hole. His body was found two weeks later at a depth of 70 meters, after helpers had painstakingly drilled a parallel shaft.