A family marked by tragedy: the heartbreaking declarations of Julen's parents after the discovery of the body

Just two years after losing Oliver, another of her children, the tragedy again hit the Malaga family hard. "They will bury him with his brother," said a family friend at the door of his home. After the rescue operations, he managed to recover the body of Julen, the 2 year old boy who fell into a well.

Oliver Roselló was three years old when, in April 2017, he died suddenly. So, Julen was barely a baby.

"Not yet, not yet!", was heard in the house where Julen's parents were a few minutes before the official publication of the location of the corpse.

It had been two weeks since this family and all of Spain were in abeyance following the works that maintained hope after the fall of the last one on January 13th by a narrow well in a property of Totalán.

According to Spanish media, the house had been the scene of moments of tension and shouting. When the rescue teams approached Friday from where the child was found, the tension between families increased.

Around 9 pm, José Roselló, father of the child, had to be treated by the health services because of an anxiety crisis. A few hours later, the tragic result occurred.

"It's the least we can do, accompany them in their mourning. Parents have lost two children in a short time, it's the worst thing that can happen to a person ", said one of the neighbors of the neighborhood of El Palo, quoted by the newspaper The world.

Neighbors in the region were approaching the wake since the dawn of Saturday, when the lifeless body rescue was finalized. Some wear crowns. They cry and kiss each other.

"The family is very well known and loved in the neighborhood. They will have all our support, "said another neighbor, surprised by the number of journalists and police, who asks each person trying to enter the site to know his relationship with the family.

Almost simultaneously with the ceremony, the rescue teams left the work area, including the eight miners who searched for the child for more than 30 hours.

Spain was in mourning this Saturday after rescuers found dead little Julen. Now the case has gone to the hands of justice.

The autopsy was performed on Saturday morningand the result will be communicated to the judge in charge of the investigation.

The local newspaper Malaga today, citing sources close to the case, reported that The autopsy revealed that Julen had died on the same day of the fall of the aftermath of a "traumatic brain injury".

In addition, the deputy delegate of the Government of the Spanish region of Andalusia, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez also explained that, because of his position, the child fell into the well in a "fast and free" way.

The boy's body was found at dawn around 1:25 am (0025 GMT), after a team of 300 people made an unprecedented civil engineering job against the clock in Spain.

Since January 13, the child has been imprisoned in a tunnel 25 centimeters in diameter and 107 meters deep. drilled for water drilling, in the city of Totalán, in the Andalusian province of Málaga.

One of the most likely theses is that, at the fall itself, it dislodged earth from the walls of the well, "very imperfect, very sandy", said Rodríguez Gómez.

He also said that there was "various theories" about the "plug" found in the well, but that there is still no certainty and that the air that could exist in this area was the one between the feet and the head of the child.

Julen spent more than 12 days in a 25-centimeter cold hole in the middle of the field, at a depth of over 70 meters, while more than 300 people were busy drilling the rock and soil that kept him trapped. In some sections, the rock is quartzite, one of the hardest, with a resistance of 7 on a scale of 10.

The operation to rescue him was considered the most complex enterprise in Spain. Dozens of machines, drills and excavators removed about 83,000 cubic meters of soil to dig a parallel well to the smallest.

The operation included eight members of Hunosa Mining Rescue Brigades who drilled the 3.8-meter tunnel of dirt and rock for nearly 32 hours.

"A miner never stays in the mine and for them, Julen is a minor"Juan López Escobar, delegate of the College of Mining Engineers of Malaga, said with emotion.

The hardness of the rocks was constrained up to four times by agents of the Civil Guard speleology specialists and "microvoladuras" to introduce explosive charges in the rock holes to make small detonations and open the way for minors.

With information from EFE and AFP