Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The mother of Romina Celeste Núñez, the young Paraguayan woman whom her husband killed in Lanzarote four years ago, has assured that since this Friday she is “a little more at peace” after certifying that her daughter did not commit suicide, as the defendant claimed so far, and has regretted that the sexist violence protocol was not activated with her: “My daughter would still be alive.”
This was stated by Míriam Rodríguez at a press conference barely two hours after finishing the first day of the trial that is being followed before the Court of Las Palmas, in which her son-in-law, Raúl Díaz Chacón, has confessed for the first time that he killed Romina.
In her opinion, if two days before that New Year’s morning in 2019 in which her husband ended her life, the health center where Romina went with injuries and confirmed that she was a victim of ill-treatment would have activated the sexist violence protocol , the outcome would have been different.
“My daughter would be with me,” she pointed out, as if her “alleged friend” and partner had denounced what happened to her husband Raúl or “if she had told me.”
He has claimed to feel “a little better”, although “very sad”, because he never believed that his daughter had committed suicide at the same time that he has affirmed that Romina “is missing and it hurts” since that December 31, 2018 in which did not return the call.
“It was New Year’s Eve and she had arranged to call to start the year with her and her son by phone, as she had done in previous years, and that she did not call surprised me a lot,” said Miriam Rodríguez, who on Monday will be able to enter the room where the trial against his son-in-law will continue, with several of the experts and witnesses summoned.
For Rodríguez, this confession of the murderer is due to the fact that “his heart and conscience weigh on him”, and he wants to think so because “my faith is great”.
“I do not think it is a strategy, I have so much faith that I think his conscience did not let him sleep and because the evidence is enough and everything is against him, I am confident that justice will be done,” he added.
Although she knows that her daughter “will never call her back”, she has asked to take “that small piece of lung that was found” with her to Paraguay because it is the only way for Romina to return to her family, “said the mother, who has indicated that “it’s very hard” just having pictures.
In this sense, he has opined that the defendant buried some of the parts of Romina Celeste’s body that he did not throw into the sea and has asked him to “have a heart and say where he buried them.”
In addition, he thanked his lawyer, Emilia Zaballos, for the “perseverance” in the case and for having fulfilled his “promise” to get to the truth” and also the media, which in his opinion have been an element of pressure “to that today we have finally been able to hold the trial” and for having “kept my daughter alive” in these 4 years and 5 months of proceedings.
For his part, Zaballos has indicated that since the entry of the new defense attorney, there has been collaboration and they have expressed the defendant’s willingness to confess the facts.
He has assured that they have not renounced “anything” in relation to the penalties, and have only accepted the technical mitigations such as the repair of the damage, if they do not accept the confession because “it has been complete”.
“We are talking about very serious crimes and we were not going to give in,” explained the lawyer.
In his opinion, Raúl DC’s confession is due to the fact that “there was a lot of evidence that proves all the crimes”, and he has once again called for the improvement of the system, which is “a pending task”. EFE