is whiskers, whoever, raising the ground to breaking questions can go into the after life. we are sitting, saving the world, 42, the answer to almost everything. start september 10th, on dw. walking down the hallway at school used to feel brian, here with dread. today he visits schools voluntarily, but for 12 years school was a living nightmare was done by the candidate. if i look for any reason to hurt, you said it would be seek, it might be the way you look. mean how clever you are off with your clothes or your taste. without gary's task, there can be a 1000 reasons. so i need to know what none of them should be a reason for bullying at school a laptop,

but i have enough schools are meant to be a safe place for children where they can receive an education grow in their personal development and learn to interact with others, but when children are excluded and bullied, their lives can become miserable. according to the united nations, one and 3 children experience some form of bullying, often leaving lifelong scars the brain. he now works as a volunteer getting workshops designed to prevent bullying. most of them are in spain of it, but today he's out of school in the tiny, neighboring country of in dora a busy by wednesday thursday. i'm going to tell you about my book that i've

published and it's called beating but not defeated. joseph needs to go experience bullying at school, but i was just don't know because i sort of have the 3 parties. there's not the victim and the rest of it. then we have the observer basically know how to solve the upset about a, an option to buy the after the observer cost is just as much damage as the aggressor. i would say even more. yeah. because they're just looking on and not getting help. part of the initial part from the observer, who do you think needs the most self confidence, the victim, i mean the, the victim by okay. why what, okay, what, okay, a non 0 take because we shouldn't let the things other people say affect us. so of course they can hurt, is the industrials, but mostly because you have to develop a sense of self worth and incidence like that culture click it is people call us names. it needs to go in one ear. now the other thing, what's your name? jody. do you agree with jody by me right.

brian is 23 years old and lives 30 minutes from barcelona. he spent most of his childhood here, including 4 years at a local school. could they either on the team for a long time? i just thought bullying was normal. i've been there that goes to quincy. if you experience it for a long enough, it's can start to believe everything they say about, you know, the reason it took me a long time, for example, to be able to look my girlfriend in the sofa. then there was the terrible fear of the social situation. lot up isn't that the fear of giving a presentation appearing in front of lots of people in different supports for the complex? i panicked at the clock that someone might make eye contact with me, so we don't have to. we spoke on the

every day. he's still walks past his old school. his memories of that time are extremely painful. the just how you look for can see a little more. i never knew the reason why they leave me alone. all they wanted was to give me a hard time because of my i hope because of the way i looked. yeah. but it's ok. that's why they singled me out to get what i can assist in my last year's here at the school were physically the most difficult for none of those. my support this i know facing comments documented on that. they threw me down the stairs thinking about them. they ran dependent to my handle and then into my me there are enough, i need the whole stomach. they be, be obviously right there in that building said the sink and the gymnasium, confusing heat. and i remember they surrounded me so i couldn't get away any, any more people this. how do you ask me about that image is still fresh in my mind . nothing when we slide it in, we 1st come to my memories of this place are terrible.

brain was born with str business where the eyes don't properly aligned. it's since been corrected, but the harm he suffered as a result of the boeing still affects him today. because there are people who unconsciously react and look behind them as they passed by me. and that just really hurts me because i know they've noticed something going on with my eye and that it has an effect you meant for someone to see the brian change schools 3 times. but the bullying never stopped. he got support from close friends and his parents, but not from the school itself. that would not get a big door to stop the bullying, the director of one of my schools advise me just to get back on to defend myself. we see that based on the focus wasn't on talking about it. when he gets of the situation. he favored more aggression. we have over talking. yeah. the, the, the level of brian saw power listened,

alone played by self doubt. and he assumed he was somehow to blame, a typical response. but i can, well, you don't see the of them. there may be a cost. why go to a place where they be, be up and say to me and threatened me. but i don't know if it just didn't make sense fun with it is under that kind of psychological stress. you end up thinking of you. i ended up thinking that the best thing would be for me to take my own life . send me the the foundation, bullying seen from terrace or bullying without borders. estimates $1.00 and $4.00 children are harassed at school. and cyber bullying continues outside of school. to the group says bullying kills 200000 children and teenagers worldwide. each year. the 2 years ago, jose manuel lopez and maria jose lopez lost their daughter kira they're

convinced that it was bullying at school that drove their daughter to her to the well, if you don't get over that, you can't work through the death of your child. it's in comprehensible that little fellow know if we all react differently to me, the photos the like is that i can now breathing and i just, i looked at a photo and it takes me back, allowing me to relieve those moments. momentos. i remember how sexy we would see the we was so lucky to have the dogs are like kira oh no, you won't, peter. the

this is, this is my daughter curious room to be will is i say hello to her every day in the morning and evening if we buy cookies or other things that she liked, we put them here for her. so use that are going, this is her nicholas or she wasn't wearing it and all the photos and because she didn't fit in that school. yeah. because now she fits into a small and that's how it is. my beautiful daughter is no more no 70. sometimes i speak about her in the present tense, sometimes in the past. so she's still there. whom do you pay if i had to choose between my life now and never having had keira i

would still have chosen to have had keira on may 19th, 2021. kira took her own life. they found her in the stairwell. she was 15 years old. okay. yeah. let's see now. let's see. i think she was trying to protect us at the end. they put the into way of doing that was not to tell us everything that was happening to be able to. i guess she said she could cope with it. so i think something must have happened on that final day. can you never know what it was good for a better time schedule when she just couldn't bear it any longer in oklahoma? no. they blamed here a school clay here,

padre amount of ed in barcelona, where they say she suffered severe bullying. as parents. they contacted the teachers repeatedly, asking them to put a stop to the bullying. back in 2019, they sent this letter to the school detailing years of suffering. they say right from early childhood, she was called names and left out. she suffered both psychological and physical abuse, slender literacy, and let someone know when they told her she would die next week, delayed the idea when they pushed down the stairs. when the levia, when they pass off the pony child and all who in the classroom in the data, and when they destroyed her school bags, called her names and loss to every day, the, the spain schools are required to record all cases of bullying. there is a fixed procedure for when and how schools are required to act. and when bullies have to be reported. here as parents say, like many,

they underestimated how quickly bullying can escalate. basic years time here was marked by systematic oppression and exclusion. enabling the school will not be was absolute. health required procedure was not as he had to. i don't understand. his failure procedure. they say changing schools wasn't an option for kiera. then during the pandemic, the classes were divided up into groups, and keira was separated from her friends. they asked if their daughter could switch groups, but say the school rejected the request, us. and obviously they told kira that she was the problem because they tell us is that again and again, she was the one that needed to learn to integrate into the cloths. kira died believing that she didn't fit in because that's what she was told at school. every time we complained about bidding jose willis and she said good bye to his friends who she was very fond of. she wasn't a lonely child,

but they convinced her she was even though that wasn't a problem. for a teenager, that's a terrible thing. so, but i'm not listening this stephanie list 9 days after here is death, an e mail appeared in the school app on her phone. it was sent from a computer at her school. the subject line was death. the message di, i've seen other than the and the police found out it was a student from her class, but the boy just said he sent the email by mistake before i wrote you personally, i don't believe that we don't have any was actually a research suggested that it was a kind of bullying that continues even after death. the school denies all wrong doing in tears case, they say there is no evidence she was bullied, and therefore no connection between events that happened at the school and her decision to commit suicide. curious case shock to the country in her local area, graffiti and posters, so serve as a constant reminder the scene has

a bullying problem, the worst and all of europe, according to the group bullying without borders. akira school still more cases have been reported. maria jose lopez is on the way to see her neighbor, carmen. yep. s. she's opened a new boutique in the area. maria wants to find out how carmen's daughter is doing . she goes to the same school as kira and was reportedly also bullied. herman keeps precise records of every thing her daughter has experienced at school writing e mails, keeping a diary and notes and she's reported it to the authorities. first. this one is on this, these phone is these. these are reports of panic attacks. so, and these are all the emails that i found, they see that to us. there's somebody else can make a file here. i wrote down every day with this. something bad happens. see oh with

a nothing happened. oh, the bullying experience by her daughter was apparently so bad. carmen reported the perpetrator to the police even though he's a minor. so like other parents, she says the atmosphere in the school promotes rivalry, and bullying is accept them and it's exactly the same. putting the same story to the guess they tell the school about the physical and psychological abuse that the daughter is suffering. the school just denies that to be sick. a says the door for was the problem and they refused to do anything about as he not because i don't know, i knew the color korea, carmen appealed directly to the education authority that up to the pressure on the school. and the case was beneficially documented since then things have ease somewhat, but the experience has left her daughter suffering from depression and, and eating disorder. she's receiving psychological treatment. after the death of

their daughter, kira all jose manuel and maria jose could do was filed a lawsuit in the criminal proceedings that followed. they and the bars, luna, city council appeared as joint plates. but in the trial, the district court ruled that it couldn't be established beyond doubt that the school either is an institution or individuals at the school drove keira to commit suicide. the case was discontinued and then in october 2022 here as parents appealed against that decision and the case was passed to the regional court. but just sitting around and waiting was too difficult. instead, jose manuel began working to protect other families from the same fate. to join forces with the parents of children who have been bullied to try to establish an anti bullying law that provides better protection for children. they collected 230000 signatures and met with the spanish education minister,

but twice as many signatures are needed to initiate legislation. the my daughter has died to my major a promise and i owe it to her to keep that promise. i won't give up. not till we're done until justice is done. the funny way i have to keep going. it's what's keeping me alive. yes, i owe her that sort of liver. to roy. he's planning to take part in a demonstration, calling for a nationwide anti bullying law. one of the organizers is bryant, who he's arranged to meet the fellow there. how are you? it's hi. how are you? read are they located the names. so that wasn't specifically want to law against bullying and schools that weren't binding for the entire country. israel for you, or do we have to insist on that? and we will get the political leaders to listen to us. i know we can get this past

. i'm confident of it. they want a set of rules for following up on cases that applies to every school and every part of spain. because the education system is failing so badly, and we need to make sure these cases are seen and the action is taken. so what i do, what we have a long fight ahead of us going through that more time. what's the next step for brian is a school near barcelona. once again raising awareness of how serious bullying is. he's accompanied by the catalonia and police, as he gets booked for courses like this once or twice a week. his schools are prevention and understanding, both the victims and the perpetrators, our children. brian encourages the victims of bullying to speak out, but only 10 percent. dare to raise the alarm. see? yes, quite a bit. starting in the 4th grade,

they started saying mean things to me. and you see, i have a problem and i have epilepsy. and they started saying things like, oh you poor thing, for example, they started talking behind my back. it's been handled since a service, you know, but it's still happened to providing adequate support for the children and combating bullying. works better in some schools than others. it's up to the school to create a climate where bullying can't take root the color, do send em and going on. dora books, brian regularly for workshops. they can't emphasize enough how dangerous bullying can be because excuse given it from bullying is very bad,

but the test shoulder need more time than adults to with through is one. sometimes sometimes guys remain. i got a simpler corbin, after convincing make sure that no one that has school ever suffers from this. gonna put them in that you're not going to want to friend or classmates. me go and do you need to be really, really, really upset and maria joseph pascal is convinced the workshops are having a positive effect. she's been running the school for 3 years now. she has 20 years of experience. as a teacher and psychologist, she says that bullying exists in every school and that it's important to put a stop to it right from the start. because once it takes root, it's almost impossible to stop most the police because all the basic approach is to ensure that the students, teachers, and other stuff, a paying attention quantities and every incident that arouses suspicion has to be

put on record. and most, we also do our best to teach empathy. we cancel out any student to you to be treated badly. no, nope. i say model. she says that every school has critical areas that are difficult to monitor like locker rooms, bathrooms and stairwells. so calls are growing in spain for more video surveillance in schools to better protect children. like many schools, this one has installed cameras for the outside, but they're not currently authorized indoors. so there's less our cameras need to be, the students and the teachers themselves, enough and the she wants the school to be a respectful environment that strengthens children's social skills. a place that teaches every child to celebrate their uniqueness,

rather than being ashamed of it. the meanwhile, jose manuel lopez is on his way to a meeting with his lawyer. the regional court has rejected their appeal. they need to discuss what to do next. the, their lawyer, powell and our bona is not giving up legally their only option now is to pursue a civil case or cannot know this notion of hard evidence to pin it down. nothing affects the preschool bullying for criminal cases at a sample for school. i don't even been a that they've waited more than 18 months for our court ruling. the new trial could

take up to 2 more years. to put the meetings, if you can, we demand compensation here. my wants to maximum, i mean, not for myself. so you kind of see if we win, anything i'll donate to charity mean yourself, you know, the ultimately, the children aren't to blame either. they're just the children or somebody. someone needs to be accountable for the mistakes that were made. it because after everything that happened with my daughter is dead, and that has to have consequences. here. legal expert jordy, neeve of renewal has followed care his case from the start. he says, bullying is always difficult to prove in a criminal case and believes civil proceedings have a greater chance of success. and on the, on the, for the civil case, all the parents can expect this money. nothing more. because there's a window, of course that's not just us, but at least it's something solid or perhaps more importantly that can cause the school to take better measures in the future. to prevent such things from happening with what is provided that the school is indeed found to bear responsibility 70

west. i suppose. i supposed he points out that cure his case has attracted nationwide interest. he believes that even though the criminal case has been discontinued, for now, it will continue making ways they don't issue. i'm not really. it doesn't mean that something might not turn up in the future for the show. that's what a court order to professional discontinuation. the local otherwise, if it had been believed that nothing more could be found, the proceedings would have been closed definitively leave it in a letter sent to all parents, the school presented the situation somewhat differently. it said the proceedings were concluded. and so it was expedited in that same style. a letter from the school states that the investigations have been permanently concluded to go through this. god is not true. the court said exactly the opposite of the thing that i will stay for you. the version for trade by the school was also spread by parts of the spanish media. in may 2023. it was time for the

protest around $350.00 people march through barcelona. among the men who had lost or almost lost a child, at least or grandson, they marched together with brian. he met and jose manuel a little password to the seat of the catalan government, where they delivered their message to the education minister. is to come by and look at the photos this can't be allowed to continue. if you're not capable of doing anything make way for someone who is their pain has turned to anger. the regional school authority is remaining silent. unwilling to reveal if the bullying protocol applies to cure his case, the general director responsible for the area on a cheat, a feebler, is remaining tight lipped, claiming the criminal case is ongoing, even though it's been provisionally discontinued. because i told them before this

case is an a criminal investigation. so we can't discuss any details. the authority is also said to have investigated the case and found the school was not in any way responsible for kara steph. jose manuel and maria jose miss kira, every day they feel they've been left to fight on their own. they no longer expect any support not from the regional school authority and certainly not from the school itself. brian says only when government and society gets serious about tackling bullying. well, he's stopped fighting. he believes there's still a long way to go. something he regularly discusses at his hometown radio station without. hi, how's it going? good intent, let's get started. then even though it's a lot to me, is that the most important thing to me is to encourage victims of bullying not to keep quiet, get people to reach out for helping them get okay. because what most often kills is

the staying silent. and then it's the hiding and feeling small. it gets up on, it's enough, you know, because that's what gradually shuts you down and consumes you. ok? i said, i want to ask your dad, father, down to your mom, your teacher. i can't or other people for the help that you need to know what even that is, how you like it to him. if he does in a similar course or the, it's the 1st warm evening of the year and the beaches are filling up in barcelona lopez family came here often walking along the beach together. degree for their daughter, kira comes and goes. the nature of their grease might change, but it never goes away. they hold on to precious memories

like these, the multiple she had such a love to the beach, young one of us as soon as the 1st ray of sunshine appeared. and the 1st thing she wants to do, since she was this morning, was to get her feet would get off the beach was a source of joy for her on summer was the time she enjoyed it, the most, the beaches kira the here is parents can't just remain still, they support each other. electronic the tv is launching a civil proceedings is the right way to go. the right way to hold the school, the parents of bullies and the authorities to account of i know we will not let

this go. so if you want to see they need to pay for the damage. we don't want to just assume because of my daughter's death can not have been in vain, but it may sound the kiera is never, far from their minds. her death has shaken many in spain and drawing attention to a previously unseen danger. how bullying can destroy lives. the

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