After the premiere of the series The Asunta Case on Netflix on April 26, the murder of Asunta Basterra Porto is once again topical in our country. The 12-year-old girl was murdered at the hands of her parents, Alfonso Basterra and Rosario Porto, on September 21, 2013 in the Galician municipality of Teo.
The journalist and the lawyer became the main suspects in the crime from the first moment. Although they never confessed to the facts, both were sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2016. Now, more than ten years after the crime, the case has once again generated a stir in almost all the media, which try to today shed some light on the numerous unknowns of the case that were never answered.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Sonsoles Ónega program exclusively interviewed Nuria, who was Rosario Porto’s trusted prisoner. The former prisoner, who shared a cell with the lawyer for four months, Rosario Porto claimed, gave an image of a person mortified by the situation and very fond of her daughter. ”She did nothing but talk about her (…) Christmas and the designated days were very complicated for her, she would go to bed and just cry,” she said.
Asunta’s mother always had a very close and kind relationship with the other prisoners. ”She went through very hard times, every time she went out to the yard she met other inmates who insulted and harassed her. “That’s not nice because she never pleaded guilty,” she revealed. ”I can only speak wonders, we had a very good relationship, we talked about many topics such as travel, painting… My personal assessment is different, I cannot say that she was guilty because she did not act like that,” she stated.
Furthermore, Rosario Porto’s trusted prisoner confessed that the lawyer always fought to discover the truth and for her daughter’s murderer to be found. ”Public opinion condemned her from the beginning (…) Charo was raised among cotton and that aroused a lot of jealousy towards her person,” she declared.
Regarding the figure of Alfonso Basterra, Nuria explained that Rosario Porto never mentioned her ex-husband in prison. ”I didn’t want to know anything about him, I didn’t want to talk about anything. Charo considered Alfonso Basterra the mistake of his life,’ she asserted.
