“Mom, tomorrow we go with the kids to see the Kings.” Mari Díaz Rodríguez will always remember the last time she spoke with her son, Andrés Velasco Díaz, 39. The young man was one of the two workers who lost their lives this Wednesday, behind the collapse that took place in the central school of Gijón of Saint Vincent de Paul. The other deceased is his cousin David Velasco Velasco, 40. They were both Allerans by birth and now lived in Mieres. David Velasco had five children, Andrés Velasco had four. Nine children who were left without a father on the eve of Kings. And a family beaten twice. Almost three: Vicente Moirón is one of the workers who were unharmed and, in addition, he is the father-in-law of David Velasco. The other injured is Kamel A., a native of Ceuta.
Long before the tragic morning of this Wednesday, David Velasco was a child with an infinite smile who ran through “les caleyes” in Río Aller. “It was a garbancín, everyone loved it,” said a neighbor from the Allerano valley, broken with pain after receiving the news. “He was so nice … When the teacher went to the door of the school to enter class, he always ran through the courtyard to escape,” he said. “The most sympathetic of toddlers”, he finished off.
David Velasco’s family moved to Mieres decades ago. He had lost his father when he was still very young and, a little over a year and a half ago, his mother also passed away. His great supporters now were his five children and María Moirón, his sentimental partner and mother of his two smallest children. She waited anguished yesterday in the school environment, along with other relatives, for the news that nobody wanted to hear was confirmed: David Velasco, like his cousin Andrés – whose death had already been reported – had lost his life. She, almost in a whisper, dedicated a memory to them: “They were very good and very loved, they both got along very well.. All their lives they were in the construction ”, he affirmed.
In Solarina, the company with which they worked on this work, they had only been there for a few months. It was Andrés Velasco, according to those close to him, who later joined this construction firm in Gijón. “He was a hard worker, an outgoing guy. Above all, it was good ”, pointed out his friends from Mieres.
In Aller, although he still has relatives, only Castañeo’s neighbors remind him. There he spent his childhood: “We remember him playing ball or ‘Three sailors to the sea’, on summer nights,” they pointed out in the town. His mother will always remember the last conversation she had with him. The one in which he told him that he would go with the kids to see the Kings. Rota, yesterday, in the surroundings of the San Vicente de Paúl school, looked ahead: “Look what Kings we have at the end.”
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.