The meeting of Rayan, the 14-year-old boy who died after trying the 'pink poison' in Madrid: "They gave us a bunch of coca"

Luis F. Duran

Daniel J. Ollero Madrid

Madrid

Updated Tuesday, February 20, 2024-00:24

• Events A 14-year-old boy dies in Madrid after ingesting an energy drink with two grams of pink cocaine

Rayan, 14, died last Friday night in Getafe after drinking, along with several friends, an energy drink loaded with "mazo de coca", according to what those close to him told the National Police. The boy had moved with two acquaintances to the south of the region to meet some strangers whom they had located through Instagram. At the meeting, this minor born in 2010, with a thin build and curly hair, drank a drink in which his companions claimed that there were at least two grams of pink cocaine

. Rayan's family maintains that he took several drinks from the can of soda without knowing that he was "poisoned"

with

cough

and his mother is clear: "

It was a homicide

," Laura told GRAN MADRID yesterday with pain, assuring that her son "did not "He consumed any type of drug."

The police version is different in view of the statements of the minors who accompanied him

on the night of his death. From the Interior they insist that all the boys were aware that they were drinking a drink mixed with pink cocaine.

The National Police maintains that there is no evidence in the proceedings surrounding Rayan's death that drugs were put in his drink without his knowledge, as the first versions indicated. What's more, his friends insisted that everyone knew that the drink contained some kind of narcotic substance. According to the police version, everyone present drank the drink and, suddenly,

Rayan began to feel unwell, "falling and hitting his chin hard on the floor."

Rayan's friends pose with the symbol of the band Los Crips during a tribute in his memory in Getafe yesterday Sunday.EM

Two of his companions tried to revive Rayan when they discovered that he was unconscious and had no pulse. His body was left lying at number 3 Rigoberta Menchú Avenue in Getafe. Then, a passerby began to perform a cardiac massage on him until he was relieved by two municipal police officers, who continued with the cardiopulmonary resuscitation work while waiting for Summa 112.

The family of the deceased young man claims that while the minor was struggling between life and death,

several people recorded a video mocking Rayan and celebrating what they had done.

Those images, according to the child's relatives, were uploaded to Instagram and deleted shortly after.

According to several sources, in one of those videos a young man boasted that he had put drugs in the drink that caused Rayan's death. This is a theory not yet ruled out by investigators, since,

in some of the videos that his relatives uploaded to TikTok and other social networks, as a souvenir, images of police and emergency personnel can be seen next to the boy's body. ,

which is found lying on the ground.

When the Summa 112 ambulance arrived, the young man was still in cardiopulmonary arrest. The police report states that the minor managed to be resuscitated twice by doctors, but he stopped again and his heart permanently stopped beating.

From the scene, the Police notified Rayan's parents who traveled to Getafe, where they identified his body.

Relatives claim that the Police told them that night that the case was going to be investigated as a homicide.

However, the Madrid Police Headquarters stated that proceedings have been opened, but that, at the close of this edition, it cannot be concluded that it is a reckless homicide.

Rayan in a recent photo.EM

A version that directly contradicts the testimony that his mother shares with this newspaper. "My son was not going to commit suicide and my son was not going to take drugs," she says emphatically. Likewise, her mother tells her that Rayan was an athletic person - he played several seasons on the team in the Madrid neighborhood of Tetuán - and that he was very careful and attentive with her. «She was always looking out for me and told me things.

"If he was involved in that, he would have told me," he says.

According to the police report, Rayan was with a 13-year-old teenager and another 16-year-old minor at the time of his death. Some young people about whom his mother assures that "they

were not his friends." Simply acquaintances

»And those whom she reproaches who

«have not shown their face: nor have they called me to give me their condolences

», She laments.

While waiting to receive a definitive autopsy, the mother claims that her son was poisoned. «I'm aiming for homicide. Even the police were saying it," she says, broken by pain. At the moment,

the first progress of the autopsy

- a detailed study of the minor's body has not yet been carried out - indicates that the child died as a result of drug consumption. However, one of the big unknowns in this sense is whether the boy suffered from some type of previous pathology that he himself was unaware of and that could have aggravated his body's reaction to the tusi cocktail.

Altar in memory of Rayan in Getafe.

A fan of soccer and urban music rhythms, his friends and acquaintances gathered last weekend at El Casar Park in Getafe to pay tribute to him: on a concrete block they built an altar with photographs, candles with images of Jesus Christ,

graffiti , balloons and blue bandanas of which they shared videos that have gone viral on TikTok to the rhythm of trap and reggaeton songs.

A posthumous tribute during which some attendees posed to be photographed next to the altar with their faces covered, wearing blue scarves as a flag and drawing a letter C with their hands.

A series of symbols that, according to National Police sources who are experts in the control and monitoring of youth gangs, is typical of the Crips,

an African-American group founded in Los Angeles about which the agents assure that chapters or cliques already exist in the city. of Sevilla. Young Ryan's funeral was held last Sunday at the La Paz funeral home.