
The best friend of the paralyzed gang-rape victim who died by euthanasia Thursday showed up at the Barcelona hospital an hour before the life-ending procedure in a heartbreaking last-ditch attempt to stop it.
Noelia Castillo’s childhood best friend, Carla Rodriguez, wailed as she begged hospital security to see the 25-year-old in a final effort to change her mind — but officers blocked her from entering the room to say goodbye and make her desperate plea, according to gut-wrenching footage captured by Okdiario.
“I wanted to try to convince her to change her mind,” Rodriguez, who was with her 6-year-old daughter, bawled.
Castillo received life-ending medication at an assisted facility in Spain following a years-long legal battle and chronic pain she suffered following a suicide attempt that left her paralyzed from the waist down