Not even a pandemic is strong enough to make people forget such a tragic event as the one that took place in the province of Malaga two years ago.
This Tuesday marks the second anniversary of the day the body of little
Julen Roselló was found
at the bottom of a well of just 28 centimeters in diameter and 100 meters deep.
The youngest, two years old, was stuck at
about 75 meters
, something like falling from a height of twenty stories and lost his life almost instantly.
It took
13 days
Until we knew it for sure, the time that the rescue tasks in which a hundred people participated were delayed, shaping an unprecedented device and a rescue, that of his corpse, which was broadcast hour by hour on televisions around the world.
In that special device, which started after the call of desperate parents one Sunday at noon, specialists of various kinds worked, in shifts of day and night.
That mountain where
José and Vicky,
the child's parents, had gone to spend a day in the country and which would end up being the scene of a tragedy.
The land was literally emptied to access a well in which initially (and because of its very small dimensions) it did not even seem possible that Julen could have fallen.
Since that noon, after the collapse of the small hole below (and which his father heard crying for a few minutes after the fall), thirteen harrowing days passed without respite,
with an entire country overturned in the event
.
The confirmation would arrive on January 26, still difficult to forget in a town "marked" by the tragic episode of Julen.
"That child became one of the family. He was everyone's child," some neighbors still say today who, questioned about what that event entailed, speak of "
a traumatic experience
that was the protagonist of all the conversations in those subsequent months ".
Only time has been able to heal in a certain way the wounds that he left in a region forever linked to the name of little Julen.
Up to 60 companies from all over the country and from some European countries offered their selfless collaboration in the body rescue device.
Even a machine that worked on the M-40 in Madrid had to be transferred to Malaga to carry out the drilling and sand movement work on the ground.
Finally, it would be a team of eight members of the Asturias mining rescue brigade, displaced to Malaga for said rescue, who were relieved in pairs, to fall into the hole created for that purpose, inside a 2.5 meter cage of height with which it was acceded to the place where Julen lay.
They were left behind an operation that supposed to tear down an area of forest of 15,000 square meters, removing a total of 170,000 tons of earth and rocks.
A cost of 664,000 euros was calculated.
A judicial journey that has not yet concluded
Meanwhile, the person in charge of the well and the owner of the farm, David Serrano (who had acquired the farm shortly before that tragic day) accused each other and tried to avoid their involvement in the case.
Although the author of the hole insisted that he had covered it with a large stone, the owner of the farm denied it.
The trial determined that Serrano was guilty and
sentenced him to one year in prison
and to compensate each of the parents with 89,529.67 euros, and the Junta de Andalucía for the expenses of the rescue of the child with 663,982.45 euros.
Last December, the Malaga Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution requested "immediate" admission to Serrano's prison, having paid only one hundred euros of the total compensation to which he was sentenced.
His lawyer then said that his client
"does not have a job"
and that "because of this he was not paying the 50 euros per month that he agreed" that he would pay to Julen's parents.
As a result of that request, the defendant consigned a total of 500 euros, to avoid entering prison and just a few days ago, last day 11, the head of the Criminal Court number 9 of Malaga agreed to
maintain the benefit of the suspension of the execution of the prison sentence
.
The judge warned, that yes, that this decision could be revoked "if it returns to incur in that omissionate conduct", underlining that "this court will verify expressly and monthly that the payment has been produced", according to the order.
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