Relatives, friends and neighbors of the Buenos Aires city of Carmen de Patagones remembered Evangelina, Sandra and Federico, the fatal victims of the Islas Malvinas School, when, without prior incident, Rafael Junior Solich extracted a 9-millimeter Browning pistol from their clothes. , and emptied a magazine against his companions on September 28, 2004.
The bullets killed Sandra and Evangelina, both 16 years old, on the spot.Y to Federico, 15; while Pablo Saldías, Rodrigo Torres, Natalia Salomón, Nicolás Leonardi and Cinthia Casasola were seriously injured, who were recovering in the course of the subsequent months.
Junior Solich was declared incompetent by the Judge for Minors of Bahía Blanca, Alicia Ramallo, and fHe was admitted to a psychiatric institute where he still remains.
The most emotional moment of this day came late at night when they released candles in the waters of the Rio Negro, that went away providing a light to so much darkness.
Recreational activities and reflection They began in the morning at the Islas Malvinas school, with a minute of silence and commemorative words by authorities of the institution.
Likewise, in the other schools of the city, the flag hoisted at half-staff and the students observed a minute of silence.
Marisa Santa Cruz, mother of Federico Ponceone of the victims, and organizer of the day, recalled the event and pointed out that, “we are arming ourselves as we can every day, with this pain that does not diminish at all.”
In a dialogue with the media, Marisa maintained that “our days changed from 18 years ago. What happened changed our lives completely, because all the dreams and plans we had were destroyed.
The educational establishment where the tragedy occurred since 2012 was transformed into a Common Secondary Education School, where students attend from first to sixth year and have five orientations, visual arts, economics and management, among other subjects.
“Entering school is hard, because it was the last place my son was. If they had been responsible, I would still be in this plane of life today. Although he is still in us, but not on a visible plane. The truth is that it is not easy”, he recalled when participating in the act today.
On the court case, he held that, “justice is still lacking with usas with so many other people, he added, confirming that “still in the civil part it has not been issued”.
“I don’t know if we will manage to see the failure one day if we continue like this. At least I’m glad that both states were found guilty in the first instancebut we hope that before more years are fulfilled the final opinion can come out, ”concluded Marisa.
