Chloe was fed up with her boyfriend, she wanted to leave him, and in fact she did, broke off relationship with ‘El Rayo’. But the problem was that this teenager, two years his senior, kept piercing his ear or looking for it at the Institute. Beach Flamenco. Until the right words to give you “a time“This 15-year-old girl gave in to the fatal attack that El Rayo perpetrated against poor Chloe, by cutting her throat with a knife, because this Sunday she – supposedly – refused to return to their courtship.
EL ESPAÑOL has exclusive access to Chloe’s WhatsApp chats which show that the 42nd victim of gender violence in 2024 in this country had already been trying to end her relationship for two months. This is evidenced by this conversation held on September 6 between Chloé and a 17-year-old girl, who was a trusted person both for her and for the one who was still her boyfriend: El Rayo.
– Friend : Chloe, my love.
– Chloe: Call me fat.
– Friend : How are you my love? How was last night?
– Chloe: Well, “El Rayo” scared me, if I’m honest, fat lady. He would wake me up all night telling me strange things. He is very paranoid. Big girl, she’s mentally crazy.
– Friend : How scary. What happened? What did he tell you?
– Chloe: ‘Brother’, he said he was in a game with who knows what of my family, my mother and who knows what else…
– Friend : Did you talk to him?
– Chloe: Yes. He’s still angry.
A photo of El Rayo, this Monday, arrested by the Civil Guard. Next to it, an image where he brags about consuming what looks like a joint.
The teenager who participated in these conversations explains to EL ESPAÑOL that she “would like to study psychology” and that she was mediating between Chloé, 15, and “El Rayo”, 17, at certain moments of their by heart, by professional vocation, but above all because of the friendship he had with them both. “It was a toxic relationship.“, as this former student of IES Playa Flamenca de Orihuela Costa regrets, anonymously, because she is a minor.
-Why do you claim they had a toxic relationship?
– Friend of Chloé and ‘El Rayo’: I had been friends with El Rayo for four years and with Chloe for almost two years. My boyfriend and I were meeting them to hang out and I know them well. ANDHe told her: ‘don’t wear that to dress’ or ‘don’t go to that place with your friends’… He insulted her. The two pushed each other. Chloé, at the beginning of “El Rayo”, did not leave her house alone, we saw her in the street only if she accompanied her…
They had broken up and gotten back together several times. Sometimes they were really good and other times really bad. After the summer, “El Rayo” disrespected him by making out twice with another girl. He said he loved Chloe and was sorry for being unfaithful to a third person. Chloe found out and didn’t trust “El Rayo”. I couldn’t continue with him.
But in practice, he never ended up setting foot on the ground with the boy who ended up becoming his tormentor. Sometimes, because Chloe didn’t materialize the pumpkins, with the new codes that govern relationships between teenagers: “She left the lilac heart in her Instagram bio”. Which is equivalent on social networks to publicly warning that has a hidden love.
A WhatsApp message where “El Rayo” asks Chloe’s friend to talk to him while they have time.
On other occasions, ‘El Rayo’ continued to control Chloe by sending messages to her friends so they could talk to him when I agreed to give him “time”: leave the relationship for a while. This is demonstrated by these WhatsApps that this young girl received between November 11 and 13: just eleven days before this alleged sexist crime, perpetrated in an alley in the La Florida urbanization of Orihuela Costa, where “El Rayo” would have slit Chloe’s throat. because he didn’t want to resume their romantic relationship.
– Lightning strikes Chloé’s friend: I need you to get some “information”. Ask him stupid questions from time to time. From time to time, mention to her that I am thinking of coming back and that I am working hard for her.
A WhatsApp conversation between Chloe and her friend confirms that she does not want to continue dating “El Rayo”.
These were only good words because this 17-year-old young woman says that “El Rayo” was more and more obsessed with Chloe. “Two or three weeks ago he met with me and my boyfriend to tell us that He was very sad because Chloe wanted to leave him.“, according to this young girl. “She told us that she could not leave him because she was his whole life and that he would die without her. I replied that if I wasn’t Chloe, I would be with another girl. But he kept repeating: “I die without Chloe”“. I couldn’t digest that this fourth year ESO student didn’t want to continue to be involved in a toxic relationship at the age of 15 and with many dreams to achieve.
“Chloe wanted time for herself.“, according to her friend, providing this newspaper with another WhatsApp capture, featuring a conversation with the late Chloe, dated Sunday, November 10, just two weeks before she was fatally stabbed in a lonely, dark alley.
– Friend : Is El Rayo okay?
– Chloe: Half fat.
– Friend : Are you coming back with the baby?
– Chloe: I don’t think so, my love.
– Friend : What a bitch. Don’t you feel anything anymore?
– Chloe: I don’t know love, I don’t want to talk about it.
This conversation shows that this 15-year-old girl was overwhelmed by the apparent control of a toxic 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, who did not respect the “time” Chloe asked for to clear her mind and think peacefully, whether she wanted to return to court. Actually, He kept looking for her around the school on his electric scooter. or by the parks he frequented.
For example, this new WhatsApp from ‘El Rayo’ to this friend of Chloé: “I was with her. He doesn’t know what to do. For now, leave your heart out on Instagram for a while and then he will remove it in due time. He says he thinks it will work, that we’ll see each other on certain weekends and that we’ll get together if he wants. […]. In this time I’ll try to be okay.”
– What was the behavior of your friend “El Rayo” last month, during which his friend Chloe did not want to continue the relationship?
– Friend of ‘El Rayo’ and Chloé: He told me that he spent his time locked in his room, crying and not sleeping. It was terrible. In the afternoon, he went to class at the Playa Flamenca Institute and in the evening, he came to see her. On weekends, I tried to meet her, go to dinner at McDonald’s or to eat sushi.
An aerial view of IES Playa Flamenca, the Orihuela Costa educational center where Cloe and “El Rayo” were enrolled.
This 17-year-old girl emphasizes that she was worried about the emotional state that “El Rayo” presented over the last month. “He’s a weak person who gets addicted to everything”, “with insecurities”, and “with depressive tendencies”which she has witnessed since they became friends in the summer of 2020, through mutual friends who came to enjoy Campoamor beach, one of the tourist treasures of the Costa Blanca, or met to go out in the Zenia shopping complex Boulevard.
This newspaper telephoned the lawyer defending the alleged perpetrator of this sexist crime to ask if he suffered from any mental illness due to his history of hashish consumption, but the lawyer refused to answer questions. . “I called him for a meeting because I saw him in really bad shape,” insists this young girl. “He told me he was taking medication for schizophrenia.” “‘El Rayo’ had not responded to my messages since Friday. I was told he was drinking at La Zenia. Chloe wasn’t with him all weekend until Sunday.”
Unfortunately, this 4th year ESO student, aged 15, once again agreed to meet her ex-boyfriend, a 17 year old high school student repeating his first year. All this, according to another friend of Chloe, after she sent a message to “El Rayo”, definitively ending their relationship, to whom he asked her, as always, to meet to talk about their breakup. The two men entered an alley between Venus and Mercurio streets, a few meters from the chalet where this little girl’s family lives in the La Florida urbanization. There was no reconciliation. Just a precise cut in the neck who bled poor Chloe to death – when she was a teenager.
improvised altar
This alley has become a place of pilgrimage for students from IES Playa Flamenca where the victim and the attacker went. On the wall where the beating took place, students place candles, flowers and letters, demanding “Justice for Chloe”.
“I think he stabbed her this Sunday and that he went peacefully to her parents’ house,” according to this 17-year-old young woman, and that in recent weeks, as her good friends do, she tried to act as a mediator, to advise and help “her two friends, protagonists of a violent death which shocked the teenagers of Orihuela Costa.”‘El Rayo has a very strange mind. It can be the love of a child and all of a sudden it goes haywire.”
