- Francisco Lema. 36 años. Mason. Córdoba. February / 8 / 2013. Francisco, unemployed, brought his 8-year-old daughter to school on Friday. Coming back home, he found a letter from the tax office claiming him 400 euros. He came up to the fourth floor in the building at Cartago street where he was renting a flat, and he threw himself into the void. Less than one year ago he had lost his house because he was unable to pay the mortgage. The bank took it, but was still asking him for 25,000 euros.
- Iñaki Vesga. 56 años. Welder. Basauri. February / 11 / 2013. The day Iñaki committed suicide, he had to pay her wife their 17-year-old son’s alimony of 350 euros. Their 30-year-old daughter was already married. He had been divorcing his wife for 5 years. He lived alone, although he had his father and 9 brothers around him, and he had been unemployed for 2 years, but he did not seem desperate. Until he hang himself that Monday at 4.30 a.m. On the suicide note he said he was unable to pay the mortgage of 700 euros. «Before watching myself on the streets, I leave», he wrote. He just had not paid one monthly payment, but he knew what was going on: he had extinguished his dismissal compensation, he just had left 426 euros for long term unemployed people. He did not ask for help. It was not his way of doing it. The night before he was in the bar watching the Athletic match, his passion. They lost 0-4 against Espanyol.
- José Miguel Domingo. 54 años. Newsagent. Granada. October / 25 / 2012. The ambulance got there before the bailiffs. José Miguel Domingo hang himself just a few hours before getting evicted from his house, in the humble neighborhood of La Chana, in Granada. He was single and lived alone, just on top of his news-stand business, in the building which belonged to his family for years. One of his brothers, managing the grocery store next to the news-stand, found him hung in the old courtyard. No one in the neighborhood knew about his problems. For them, José Miguel was a nice, funny and generous man. Maybe he was not talking out of shame, they guess, so nobody would know what was about to happen to his family house. The night before, maybe kind of sad -they try to explain-, he came to the usual bar to see the Champions match, Real Madrid vs. Borussia Dortmund. Real Madrid lost.
- Guillermo Santos. 45 años. Plasterer. Cartagena. February / 26 / 2013. Guillermo Santos, married and father of three sons, spent 2 years unemployed. The day before taking his life away he was demonstrating with other workers from the Unemployment Platform in Cartagena to claim a job which would get him out from the delicate economic situation he was going through. One year before he had been evicted from his house because he could not pay the mortgage. He had to shelter in his wife’s grandma house. And he was not getting any subsidy anymore. His mates denounced that, when his family went to Social Services days before, they just got rid of them, even in a rude way. «They were told there were many Spanish people living their same situation ». After his death, on Saturday, thousands of people demonstrated in Cartagena to the cry of «we are all Guillermo».
- Amaia Egaña. 53 años. Former Town Councilwoman. Baracaldo. November / 9 / 2012. Amaia had a good job. She managed the Human Resources department in a transport company, where she had worked for 30 years. Her husband, a Socialist town councilor –like her-, was also working. But they were about to get evicted. She knew it. He did not. Neither did their 21-year-old son. Just before the bailiffs arrive to execute the eviction, Amaia jumped to her death from the fourth floor. Her family, astonished, did not want to explain how they got into failing to pay, but her death had a great impact. Specially because the local judge on duty, Juan Carlos Mediavilla, quite moved, appeared in front of the media and asked for an amendment of the law. Other judges joined him. And the law is being amended.
Mari Carmen came back after running some errands when she found her husband’s dead body on the sidewalk. Fran had
thrown himself into the void. He had lost ownership over his house, but remained liable for the mortgage debt.
His suicide moved the country.
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Diseñado y desarrollado por Julio César González
Diseñado y desarrollado por Julio César González