September 21, 2013 was a day marked in black by the media and Spanish society. It was the early hours of that Saturday to Sunday when Asunta Basterra was found dead in a wooded area on the outskirts of Teo, in the province of A Coruña. After a complex investigation, the girl’s adoptive parents, Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra, were sentenced to prison terms for murder.
Rosario committed suicide in 2020, while Alfonso will continue serving his sentence until 2031. These elements have served as the driving force for the Netflix series The Asunta Case, starring Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa. Its premiere has been a success and has allowed the topic to be revived on television programs and social networks. One of the elements recovered is a compelling archival interview by one of the girl’s grandparents.
Ramón Basterra, Alfonso’s father, had an extensive conversation with the program Galicia 112, produced by Pórtico and broadcast by TVG between 2013 and 2014. In the images, shared years later through the short video platform TikTok, Asunta’s grandfather He describes her as a girl much more intelligent than she appeared, in addition to revealing a request for her murderers without any remorse.
“Such a repugnant murder deserves repugnant compensation, plain and simple. And if I lived in the time of Elizabeth II, for example, and a history buff, I would have asked for the person who murdered my granddaughter, not a prison sentence, but the vile garrote. And I would have offered to handle the screw, that’s for sure. I feel like revenge. I try to control myself but sometimes I can’t. That girl, Asunta, my only granddaughter,” she commented to the interviewee.
Likewise, she placed part of the blame on Rosario Porto: “I think that girl, my granddaughter, was smarter than we still assume. And I think she can’t speak anymore, of course. But she knew more, I’m sure. “She possibly did not agree with her mother’s behavior, but if the girl realized that her mother, let’s be clear, had a lover, I suppose the girl would suffer,” the paternal grandfather contributed. her.
These statements are complemented by those of María Fe, a nun who cared for Porto during her days in prison: “In my opinion she thought a lot about herself because she was always worried about what the press said about her, what television said about her. she. And very rarely did she think about others. She did not communicate with the rest of the girls who talk there about everything, the weather, what happened in prison last week, what they say, what they don’t say, health, illness, of everything”.
