Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) and of having made his remains disappear, burning them and throwing them into the sea.
In an order made released this Tuesday by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, June 16 is set as the day scheduled for the end of the sessions to prosecute the accused, Raúl DC, who has been free since last January , after four years of preventive detention (the legal maximum) and faces a request for a sentence of more than 20 years in prison for mistreating and killing his wife.
In total there are six crimes that the Public Prosecutor attributes to him: homicide, habitual abuse, injuries (in this case two), desecration of a corpse and simulation of a crime.
For its part, the Canary Islands Institute for Equality (ICI) raises the same crimes as a popular accusation, except that it understands that the death of Romina Celeste was not a homicide but a murder.
The defense of Raúl DC considers that the acts that can be attributed to his client are those of desecration of the corpse, since he alleges that the husband found his wife dead in the bathtub of the house in which they lived, he tried to revive her without success and, due to the affectation of his will by alcohol and cocaine, he suffered a ‘shock’ and a picture of delirium that prompted him to get rid of the young woman’s body.
During the investigation of the case, the defendant acknowledged that he tried to make his wife’s body disappear because he feared that they would blame him for her death (Romina Celeste had denounced him for ill-treatment a long time ago), but he has always denied having killed her.
The accusations, however, maintain that Raúl DC led friends and family to believe that his wife had left home after an argument and even reported her disappearance to the Civil Guard; They also maintain that he considered his wife an inferior being on whom he could unleash her rage and “because she was young, foreign and without resources that she practiced prostitution to support herself financially.”
In addition, during the relationship they had, the defendant assaulted his partner and treated her with contempt, according to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Institute for Equality.
In August 2018, when they were both staying in a hotel, the defendant beat her and, days before her death, between December 27 and 29 of that year, he hit her again and she had to go to the hospital emergency room. of the island, although she was not treated by the doctor when the defendant appeared there, always according to the version of the accusations.
Already in the early morning of January 1, 2019, the defendant hit his wife again in different parts of the body and killed her, although the mechanisms that caused her death are unknown.
The Institute for Equality argues that the accused killed his wife by surprise, limiting his defense and increasing his suffering and pain, which leads him to raise the charges to murder.
To get rid of his body, the defendant burned it in the barbecue at his house, then dismembered it and spent two days hiding it in garbage bags that he dumped into the sea in Costa Teguise twice: first, one part in the Los Ancones, and then another in Los Hervideros, for which he rented a vehicle on January 3.
Likewise, according to the accusations, the defendant got rid of the barbecue and instruments used to dismember the corpse and other objects that could incriminate him.
Romina Celeste’s husband was arrested on January 13, 2019 and after his release he changed his residence to Madrid, where he has been obliged to appear before a court weekly since he was released from the Tahíche prison, in Lanzarote. EFE
