Alicante The court orders the internment for the minor from Elche arrested for killing his parents and brother
The thread that leads from artistic references to violent behavior is a delicate matter that appears and reappears since the existence of popular culture:
from the suicides of Goethe readers
to the beatings of children who have seen
The Squid Game;
from the emulators of
A Clockwork Orange
to that Joker fan who entered the premiere of
The Dark Knight
in a Denver theater armed and murdered 12 people.
That cross has just fallen on Fernando J. López, a former high school teacher and writer of novels, a finalist for the Nadal Prize in 2010 thanks
to The Age of Ira
(Destinqo), the book that now appears in the plot of the triple crime of Elche del last Tuesday.
The student who murdered his mother, his father and his brother after an argument over his poor grades had read
The Age of Anger
as part of his educational program at the Vicente Verdú Journalist Institute in Elche, according to the newspaper
Information
.
As the novel is an investigation into a parricide, it is inevitable to trace a relationship
that, moreover, is on the news agenda.
The age of anger
, which in addition to being a novel, has been for years a play adapted for La Joven Compañía (the show passed through Elche), will premiere its television version on Wednesday in a series produced by Atresmedia.
A summary:
The age of anger
part of a journalist who investigates an incomprehensible crime.
A seemingly well-adjusted teenager murders his father and leaves his brother badly injured.
Crime seems to be a manifestation of the capriciousness of a pure, unconditioned evil.
But the journalist's investigation begins to find
sources for that outbreak of fury
.
First, school failure.
Not the particular failure of the murderer, but that of the system, weighed down by the apathy of many teachers, not all of them.
Second, adolescent brutality, the pressure on the different.
López, born in 1977 and a teenager in the 1990s, has explained that one of his purposes in writing
The Age of Wrath
was to explain that the violence of that time never disappeared;
he only found new ways to express himself.
Homophobia, xenophobia, cruelty towards the underdog
... Nothing that hasn't been experienced in any high school.
The story of
The Age of Wrath
was based on a collage of testimonies, of voices that were building a vast portrait of the parricidal child.
Also in what had been noble in his life: friendship, intimacy... There was not, at the end of the road, an acquittal, condemnatory or comforting conclusion, only a reflection of human complexity.
Including
her destructive instincts
from him.
The age of anger
had a moral value in a very modern sense.
He spoke of the loneliness of the weak, of the misunderstanding of the system towards individuals and of the persistence of prejudices that seemed from another era.
The Elche crime will henceforth be its negative.
This morning, La Sexta published the minor's statement to the National Police.
"I shot my mother twice when she was in the kitchen.
One shot in the back and then I finished her off.
My brother tried to escape, but I went after him and caught him first.
I waited four or five hours for my father and shot the arrive".
Later, the defendant explained that his mother had scolded him for his bad grades and had told him that he was "a bum, that he was fine and that he was going to take the console away from me.
I went up to my room, I started to think and took the shotgun
."
The victims of the Elche crime will be buried this afternoon, after a funeral mass at the
Elche funeral home in l'Aljub
.
The Elche City Council decreed three days of official mourning on Friday for an event that has shocked the entire municipality.
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