He arrived at six in the afternoon, half an hour later than planned and amid applause. Natalia González, the mother of Alejandro Torres González, the 23-year-old soldier who died on the coast of Puerto de la Cruz, wanted to remember yesterday the tragic event that occurred on October 5, 2019 when her son lost his life after suffering a fall due to the riscos de Martiánez, accompanied by his girlfriend, after the poor rescue operation to try to save him.
On the beach of the same name, about 70 people gathered yesterday, joined by curious people who were arriving in addition to the mayor of La Orotava, Francisco Linares, and the councilor for the Assembly for La Orotava, Aida Salazar, the only political representatives present.
“On a day like today at this time, after six in the afternoon, I recognized my son’s body so let’s close our eyes for a second and think about Ale in life,” Natalia asked.
Between tears, hugs and constant applause, Ale’s mother, as his loved ones called him, insisted on the need for the North of Tenerife to have a professional maritime rescue station that responds to any type of accident that occurs in the littoral “and that no mother is ever seen for hours waiting for media to arrive from far away.”
Natalia dedicated a song to Ale, “for which I would cross oceans, mountains and if I could change for him I would, and if I could press a button to change events, too,” she said.
“It is important that hearts beat,” he stressed. That is why red predominated yesterday among the attendees in a heart-shaped sticker with the name Ale engraved inside in white, a symbol of peace, which was distributed by those closest to them.
One of the most shocking moments of the call was the words of Patricia, one of her sisters, broken by tears. “It is so necessary to verbalize the pain and there is so much to do and to humanize regarding how to overcome a duel,” said Natalia, who was confident that October 5, 2019 will mark a before and after in the way in which the things “in an Archipelago in which we boast of security, rescue, emergencies and endowments”.
