She went with friends to an abandoned hotel and fell from the fifth floor: horror over the death of a 13-year-old teenager

On Thursday, December 5, four teenagers They entered a abandoned buildingknown as the «Hotel Anaza«, which is located on the coast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands, off West Africa. What was going to be a «prank» between friends culminated in the tragic death of a 13-year-old girl.

At 7:00 p.m. the victim’s three companions alerted the emergency services. Traumatized and in shock, they claimed to have seen their friend fall from a fifth floor.

In a matter of minutes, local police patrols, several fire units from the Tenerife Fire Consortium and two ambulances arrived.

Upon arrival they found the girl unconscious and seriously injured. It lay on a rocky outcrop on the edge of the beach. They performed resuscitation maneuvers on him, but his condition was critical and despite their efforts he did not survive.

The 13-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene, and authorities opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the event.

In dialogue with the local news program of Radio Televisión Canaria (RTVC), the authorities indicated that they will review the recordings from the nearby cameras, will take statements from witnesses and will carry out an expert study of the structure to determine the exact height from which the minor fell.

The Añaza Hotel, abandoned half a century ago in Tenerife. (Photo: Wikipedia Commons/Mike Peel)

They clarified that for the moment the intervention of third parties in the accidental fall is ruled out, and the victim’s identity is protected while the case progresses.

The autopsy is scheduled for Friday at the Institute of Legal Medicine of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and the report will determine the cause of death.

The «Hotel Añaza», a giant abandoned since 1975

The death of the minor left the neighborhood shocked and revived the social demand for concrete measures. Due to the tragic background, some neighbors call the unfinished construction the ««Añaza monster».

The work began in 1973 under the command of a German company that was planning a complex of rooms with luxury views of the coast of turquoise waters, but all work stopped in 1975, and it never functioned as accommodation.

The building has been empty for more than 50 years. and presents structural risks: elevator shaftsopen windows and balconies without any type of protection or signage, in addition to perimeter fences that are frequently violated.

Five deaths and an urgent demolition request

Several neighborhood associations have filed complaints in the past, and claim that this is the fifth fatality registered. In 2017, four deaths were reported, three classified as «accidents» and one as a suspected suicide.

The Añaza Hotel inside: graffiti, garbage and danger. (Photo: social networks)

In recent years it has become a clandestine place frequented by many teenagers, who share photos and videos on their social networks.

Some even filmed themselves jumping from one balcony to another, risking a fatal fall, and that type of content generated even more views late at night.

On Google Maps there are recent images of the concrete giant, where you can see all the semi-constructed rooms, and demonstrate the dangers faced by all those who climb to the highest floors.

Selfies where the precipice can be seen behind the protagonists, close-ups of their shoes on the edge of balconies without railings, all kinds of graffiti from the abandoned interior and accumulated drink bottles.

As a result of the antecedents, the City Council of Santa Cruz and the Cabildo of Tenerife – the governing body of the entire island – agreed on a subsidy to pay for the building demolitionand after this new fatal incident the neighbors demand that the work be accelerated.