Spain: Julen "suffered a free and rapid fall" up to 71 meters from the well and his body was covered with stones

TOTALÁN, Spain.- The first official badumptions on
the death of Julen Roselló, the two year old boy found
in a well in the city of Totalán in Malaga, in

Spain

, indicates that he "fell quickly" to 71 meters deep and that a stone plug was above his body.

"The position of the body suggests that the fall was free until the place where the child was found," said at a press conference the delegate of the Spanish government in Andalusia, Alfonso Rodriguez Gómez of Celis, in charge of the rescue operation which lasted 13 days.

Gomez de Celis said: "At the same time that the child was thrown into the well, on January 13, he could have fallen on it", after the walls were sandy and his body was scraping on the floor. hole. only 20 centimeters in diameter.

"As expected, they found the two miners doing their job at that time, at 1.25 (yesterday at 21:25 in Argentina), and they were accompanied by a civilian guard of the mountain group." From then on, everything was in the hands of the judicial commission which removed the corpse at four o'clock in the morning, "said the government delegate.

The investigation is entrusted to the Civil Guard and the Malaga Court of Investigation No. 9, which is expected to know the preliminary results of the autopsy in the coming hours.

Unable to conceal the sadness of the outcome of the unprecedented rescue operation, Gómez de Celis said he was "going away" with the certainty of having done everything that was humanly and humanely technically possible to achieve an undesired goal ".

"May this example of determination and solidarity serve as other emergencies to come," he said.

"It's an obstacle course in which the mountain has put us in. It seems the mountain was defending itself, but everything is focused on this colossal mission, which has united us all and led us to do it in the same way. the fastest and most effective, it was possible, "he said.

Although autopsy and justice results have not yet been confirmed, it is estimated that Julen lost his life after falling into a water prospecting well at more than 100 meters in depth and only about 20 meters in diameter, it had no kind of protection.

The government delegate made a public appeal regarding the circumstances of the accident: "Anyone who has built an illegal well is still in time to seal it," he said.

With information from the agency Telam and El País