Three minors arrested for the death of an educator of a floor guarded in Badajoz | Spain

A 35 -year -old educator of a Badajoz protected floor has been killed this Sunday as a result of a violent aggression by three minors. The alleged aggressors, two men and a woman, between 14 and 15, have been arrested in Mérida after fleeing the place of the events, as confirmed by the National Police. On Sunday he stopped the young woman and this Monday, the remaining two.

The events occurred on Sunday night in a house located in the Guadiana urbanization, on Castillo de Benquencia street in the Pacense capital, where the deceased was in charge of several adolescents In this floor of compliance with minors judicial measures. The woman was the only educator who was with them at that time. He received blows and then strangled with a belt.

Police sources that carry the investigation suggest that the linking of the child in the events could be related to collaborating in the flight of the two men. Another minor that resided in one of the floors in the area called around 23.30 to the emergency service to alert the situation. The victim had already had problems with the alleged involved in his death, of Spanish nationality, whom he had denounced on other occasions, according to police sources.

Once the events occurred, the three minors fled in the car of the caregiver and suffered an accident near the Pacense town of Lobón, about 29 kilometers from the Extremadura capital. From there they continued the escape by taking care to Mérida, where they were located and detained. According to research sources consulted by El País, one of the three involved is a minor who spent seven days in an unknown whereabouts and had been located a few days ago by the Civil Guard in Villafranca de los Barros, in Badajoz.

The facts took place in a building in the Guadiana urbanization, a house that does not have cameras or security personnel, according to some colleagues.

The educator, a native of Castuera (Badajoz), was one of the five professionals who work with the minors on the floor where, according to another of the auxiliaries of this house, « we worked with fear. » The companion of the deceased, who has omitted to give her identity for « fear », has sustained Efe that « there was a very difficult situation for 15 days, with some robberies and leaks. »

« This tragedy could have occurred to any of us, » added the deceased of the deceased. Together with the five technical-educational auxiliaries (ATE), including the victim, also a coordinator and another professional, all with rotary shifts. « An absolutely terrible and logically now we will continue to investigate and continue to analyze what has been happening, how it has happened and under what circumstances they have been, » said the Government delegate in Extremadura, José Luis Quintana.

The general secretary of the College of Social Educators of Extremadura (Copesex), Inés María Solomando, has affirmed that in homes where there are minors, complying with judicial measures, as in which the minors arrested for the death of an educator lived in Badajoz, there should be “security guards, but there are no; There are only social educators and caregivers. ” Young people reside in this type of housing by order of the judge of minors, some of them with definitive measures and others with precautionary measures « as something temporary until the trial is celebrated and there is a definitive measure, » he added. “They have to live there, go to the institute and they are done an intervention plan with them. Here, the educator's work is precisely to educate these minors, ”he explained.

The event has caused a huge dismay in the community. Field workers have concentrated this Monday at the doors of the Marcelo Nessi judicial measures compliance center to condemn what this woman was happening. « Every time minors are more aggressive and ask that we are more protected, that there are more security measures and more personnel for centers because we cannot work, » said Sheila Gómez in tears.

This social worker remembers that they have been demonstrating with these claims for months and feeling a lot what has happened to their partner, « they are totally homeless and unprotected, » he says in reference to educators who work on protected floors and that, in most cases, they go alone to these homes.

In the house where the events have been produced, five professionals worked. One of them acknowledged that in that house « we worked with fear. » In addition to these five technical-educational assistants (ATE) among them, the deceased works a coordinator and another professional, all with rotary shifts. « A very difficult situation was lived for fifteen days, with some robberies and leaks, » said some workers.

For his part, Agustina is a worker of this sector and the mother of one of the auxiliaries in the house where the facts occurred, he has criticized that both the Board of Extremadura and the company responsible for this service have not listened to anything. « The administration must listen to the workers, » said this worker. During the concentration, changes in the law of the minor have also been requested with the aim of avoiding complex situations, such as reviewing the age stop in which minors are in this type of centers or trimmed homes.