“El Rayo” and Chloe have been dating for about a year, which has unfortunately become the example of everything not to do in a romantic relationship. All this, after he, at 17, decided -supposedly- to slit his throatat just 15 years old, because he didn’t want to continue being her partner.
The account provided by the circle of friends of these minors, both of Spanish nationality and residing in Orihuela Costa, suggests that Chloe, a Fourth year ESO student at Institut Playa Flamencadog lover, video game enthusiast like Fortnite and singer of trap like Samuel Salazar, This became the 42nd death caused by gender violence this year in Spain: an unbearable figure for any civilized society.
The alleged perpetrator of this sexist crime is a first-year high school student from the same institute, whose teachers discovered this Monday, to their cost, that “El Rayo” wasn’t just a bad student had problems with certain substances, but also allegedly abused his girlfriend. “After the minute of silence for Chloe, some students said that the two of them had a bad, complicated and problematic romantic relationship,” as three teachers confirmed. “Some of his friends were crying with rage.” “At the center, we did not know that there could be gender-based violence, otherwise a protocol would have been activated.”
Indeed, this Monday, November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against the woman, Activities were to take place at IES Playa Flamenca to combat this scourge, but the teaching was practical for the 900 students of this center who will never set foot in “El Rayo” again. EL ESPAÑOL saw this minor leave his parents’ house handcuffed and hiding his face behind the hood of a sweatshirt, around six in the afternoon, without being able to answer the question asked by the journalist: “ Why did you do this? ?’
“El Rayo” arrested by the Civil Guard in Orihuela.
The answers to this atrocity are perhaps beginning to be found in “distracted” habits that “El Rayo” was acquiring: the “only son” of a couple “of good and hardworking people”, formed by “the owner of a car rental company and an employee of a gas station in Torrevieja”, according to the parents’ neighbors ‘El Rayo. ‘. “They are devastated by what their only son did.”
They are also collateral victims of this alleged sexist crime, even if the most affected are the parents and the brother of Chloé who does not forget that this Sunday, her little sister came bleeding to her chalet in Florida Urbanization, after she was stabbed by her boyfriend in an alley between Venus and Mercurio streets. The proof is that Security cameras at British pensioner’s home recorded the coupleentering this narrow, dark corner of the street, to talk about his recent breakup.
“It looks like he had a drug problem.”as corroborated by the aforementioned professors of the institute built in Orihuela Costa, a tourist area on the coast of Alicante, marked by an orchard of nationalities where real estate companies, shops and Benidorm-style restaurants converge. “He was never a student with good grades, he used to get a 5 or 6 in exams. He had to work hard to complete ESO, but from the first year of high school, he started skipping class and being a truant because he was smoking joints, so at the same time he ended up repeating the class.
This is what two friends from Rayo say who regret that “his dream of being a firefighter” and “the journeys in VTT”, for having wasted time with “character” to “try” substances in the CDM Sports Center park. “He told me the police arrested him with hashish or marijuana three months ago.”, according to a colleague in his gang who sports an ostentatious imitation gold watch and a tattoo on his left hand. “As he is a minor, the officers called his parents and talked to them about leaving him because he risked ending up in prison. center. “He had problems with social services because the police caught him with joints.”
At that time, “El Rayo” spent several months with continuous comings and goings with Chloe, a girl two years his junior, characterized by her kindness, wavy hair and a striking piercing. “They were still together, but they had their relationship stuff.” “They left and came back at least two or three times.” “He loved her and didn’t want to break up.” Such comments depict a conflicted courtship that another friend of the teenagers confirms without adding heat: “They had a toxic relationship.” “I understand he hit her on one occasion.”“.
Interview with a neighbor from Orihuela
The Women and Minors Team (EMUME) of the Civil Guard is investigating the social circle of “El Rayo”, 17 years old, and Chloe, 15 years old, to clarify what triggered this femicide which shocked the country because its protagonists are minors. For the moment, a source from the investigation confirms that Chloé “did not report” the gender-based violence, but one of the main hypotheses considered is that it is a sexist crime: “The motive for the murder could be passionate”.
This theory is repeated like a mantra by the couple’s friends, aged 15 to 17, as well as by teachers at IES Playa Flamenca, consulted by EL ESPAÑOL. “Students say there was mistreatment“, as confirmed by a trio of teachers at the door of the institute where the flags are at half-mast as a sign of mourning. “We spent Monday doing therapy with them.” “A friend of the inmate said said she gave him advice on how to manage his relationship with Chloe.” “Other friends insulted him: ‘What a son of a…!’ “How is he able to do that?”
It was clear to the deceased’s classmates and gang that her friend’s boyfriend was a problem. “They had a toxic relationship: he was jealous and they argued” underlines a foreign student. “He took diazepam, marijuana… He did everything except horses. ‘El Rayo’ didn’t go to class and when he did, he rolled joints in the classroom.” So much so that Chloé changed the emotions of the video game Valorant due to other psychotropic experiences: “She was a quiet girl and a good student, but when she found herself with him, she started doing things she shouldn’t: she tried everything.”
He also began experiencing alleged episodes of emotional blackmail, infidelity, and psychological and physical gender-based violence. “In March, ‘El Rayo’ cheated on Chloé with one of his best friends: he met her at the institute.” “He abused her, hit her and she was afraid to tell people.“. “They had been dating for a year and a few months ago he told us he started abusing her. I think she gave him hell the first time.” “Everyone told Chloe to leave her boyfriend.”
Joel, Chloe’s brother, this Monday, to the press in Orihuela Costa.
The Civil Guard will analyze cell phones of the two protagonists of this alleged sexist crime, to verify the version that circulates through the Playa Flamenca Institute: Chloe sent a message to El Rayo, breaking off the relationship, and this Sunday the boy asked the minor to meet to talk. The meeting took place eight o’clock in the afternoon, in an alley the La Florida urbanization, next to the family home of this fifteen-year-old girl who ended up asking her brother Joel for help when she was fatally injured in the neck. Proof of this is that the Torrevieja hospital informed Benemérita of Chloe’s violent death at 9:10 p.m.
“My sister came to my house bleeding“, as Joël himself confirmed this Monday, briefly leaving the door of his chalet where the television cameras were crowding. “I took her to the hospital in Torrevieja.” But poor Chloé had lost a lot of blood upon arriving at rue Vénus from the alley where she was stabbed, since this newspaper was able to verify that she left a trace which began on the walls, continued along the entire sidewalk and reached the intercom of the building of his brother “I don’t want to talk about what happened. “
The security cameras of an English pensioner recorded “El Rayo” entering this alley with Chloe where it was necessary to mobilize workers, equipped with pressurized water guns, to eliminate the bleeding on the sidewalk. A dozen officers had to use spotlights to scour an adjacent park, trying to find the knife with which he slit his girlfriend’s throat. So that This same Sunday evening, at 11:30 p.m., the arrest of this 17-year-old boy took place. and the Alicante Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office was immediately informed.
“‘El Rayo’ killed Chloe because she broke off the relationship, this weekend, through a message. I think he sent it to her on WhatsApp that Sunday and told her they had to meet up to talk,” says a close friend. “They told me he had been drinking all weekend and that he had not arrived very well to speak.”
