• Interview Gonzo and his most bitter Saved: "The abuses marked me for many years; I wasn't hurt so much by the slaps as by the insults."

"It is the Saved that has cost me the most because for the first time I am the protagonist." Looking at the camera, with a gray background and Gonzo in the foreground started last night the first Saved of his thirteenth. The hardest Saved for the journalist because he, his childhood and his story are the protagonists, along with his former classmates, victims of physical and sexual abuse they suffered in the Santiago Apóstol school in Vigo of the Society of Jesus.

In the program you not only hear the story of Gonzo, but also that of one of the victims of sexual abuse, as well as memories as painful and criminal as that of a companion of Gonzo who with little more than 10 years and after going to infirmary, where he was attended by one of the Jesuits of the school, He returned to class with his hands stained with semen. Terrible stories that they suffered as children, but also teachers.

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Gonzo and his most bitter Saved: "The abuses marked me for many years; I wasn't hurt so much by the slaps as by the insults."

  • Writing: ESTHER MUCIENTES Madrid

Gonzo and his most bitter Saved: "The abuses marked me for many years; I wasn't hurt so much by the slaps as by the insults."

Or how he himself suffered the slaps and insults of members of the Company, and how that marked him for a long time. "The physical abuse is real, but I wasn't hurt so much by the slaps as I was by the insults the teachers subjected me to in front of my classmates. When a teacher insults you, humiliates you and does it in front of everyone, those insults are repeated after your classmates, and it affects you," he told this newspaper hours before the premiere.

Well, after the program, which also has the testimony of the Society of Jesus and the current director of the school, a former classmate, in addition, of Gonzo, the school has sent a statement to apologize for some facts that "shame us and hurt us".

"It is necessary to apologize to the victims once again," says the statement after thanking the producer Del Barrio "the opportunity that has been offered to us to reaffirm our institutional position in this regard."

During the preparation of the program, which Gonzo has taken four to finish, the journalist interviewed Antonio Allende, responsible for the Society of Jesus for the 68 educational centers in Spain. Allende said in the program that "they did not notice" the abuses of students of Jesuit schools, but that they initiated an investigation as a result of the information that came to them "from outside." "We were not aware of the impact that this was generating and what these people were really doing," he says in the report and picks up the statement again.

"We are aware that at that time the necessary importance was not given to the pain and the mark that such acts could leave on the victims," the statement said. "It was considered only a moral transgression when it was a crime," he said.

"Only in recent years, listening to victims has allowed us to understand the scale of the abuses and the inadequacy of the response given. As an institution we have the possibility to face now this painful reality that we have not been able to recognize at the time, and that we are still learning to address," he says.

"Our priority is the victims, to whom in addition to asking for forgiveness, we reiterate our will and desire to accompany, from respect, in the process of clarification and reparation they deserve," the statement said.

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