- Natalia Pozo requests help to move the remains of Eloy Railef Pozo, 18, who died under strange circumstances while riding a bicycle.
Under strange circumstances, 18-year-old Eloy Railef Pozo died while riding a bicycle in a park in the city of Sydney, Australia, and now his mother Natalia Pozo Rojas is requesting monetary help to pay for the investigation and repatriate her son’s body to Chile. .
Both arrived on the oceanic continent on February 29 of this year with the intention of studying English and, eventually, seeking new job and educational opportunities.
«My son graduated from fourth grade and we decided to come for a year with a student visa. If things went well, the plan was to extend the trip,” Natalia Pozo said in conversation with Las Últimas Noticias.
Once in Australia, both the mother and her son began to work as house-keepers, that is, they carried out cleaning and order tasks while taking an English course.
Everything was going well until August 4, when the nightmare began for the 36-year-old young mother. «My son went out riding his bike at three in the afternoon on August 4. At 10 p.m., when he didn’t arrive, I called the police and they notified me that they found him dead in a park. That’s the only information I have. Only his name appears on his death certificate. There is no cause or time of death,” he said.
The woman asked the Sydney Consulate for help to seek to extend her visa and eventually be able to pay for the repatriation of Eloy’s body. However, he claims to have received mistreatment, ridicule and even attacks by officials, including Consul Sebastián Canales.
«My visa expires this Sunday the 13th, I need to stay longer until I know what happened to Eloy. The police investigation takes six months. There are four left to have the result. “I don’t have money to pay for a lawyer,” Natalia explained.
Currently, the woman is experiencing severe depression that prevents her from working and generating money to pay for her stay in Australia.
«I don’t have time to work. Sometimes I take care of dogs. I don’t want to do anything. Neither eat nor shower. Incredibly I feel supported by the Australian police. He comes once a week to check on me. Yes I have food. A social worker calls me two more days and every 15 days they call me to tell me how the investigation is going,” he said.
«I still live in the apartment we rented together. Weekly I pay 500 dollars (around 314 thousand Chilean pesos). Maybe I should go to one room, but I can’t. I have all his things, I sleep on his side of the bed. I prefer to live in the fantasy that at any moment he is going to open the door. “I’m a single mother, it’s always been me and him,” she concluded.
