The murder of Asunta Basterra Porto continues to be one of the great current issues in our country. After the premiere of the Netflix series The Asunta Case, which narrates the terrible crime of the 12-year-old girl who died at the hands of her parents, Alfonso Basterra and Rosario Porto, in 2013, the case has returned to the center of the media spotlight with new information and new testimonies.
This Thursday, May 9, the Sonsoles Ónega program once again addressed the Asunta crime with the testimony of Fernando Ramos, journalist and one of Alfonso Basterra’s former co-workers. In addition, the Antena 3 space exclusively revealed the letters that the journalist and the lawyer sent to each other from prison.
”I want and hope that when you hear the news of my death you cry but with joy because I will have fulfilled a wish. Because I know that my life in freedom without it would be impossible to cope with. And since I couldn’t help her when she needed me most, it’s only right that I’m the one who runs next to her now,’ Alfonso Basterra wrote.
The journalist revealed that he had direct contact with Alfonso Basterra at work. ”When I met him, we went in very badly,” he said. ”But with daily contact our relationship improved so much that we became friends or at least I considered it that way. He seemed like a good kid and a good person to me. Then I met her at an awards ceremony. She had a normal relationship with them,’ she said.
Their friendship became so deep that the journalist claimed that it was difficult for him to assimilate that Basterra was involved in the crime. ”He was introverted, not very talkative, he was not especially friendly and therefore it is difficult for me to believe that a man with those characteristics could commit such a crime (…) My personal opinion is that either this man lost his mind or he was very in love and wanted to protect her. I see him as an accessory, he has never acknowledged the crime despite the clues he left,’ he revealed.
Regarding the letters sent from prison, Fernando Ramos explained that they reflected his character very well: ”He was a man in love and frustrated. A strange thing was the relationship they had, that affection and that complicity, that’s why I think there is something else strange here.” The journalist confessed that he was a man with whom it was not easy to establish a relationship. ”In prison he has no relationship with other prisoners, it is something very rare,” he declared.
During Thursday afternoon, Ana Rosa Quintana’s program also addressed the Asunta crime, revealing new information related to Alfonso Basterra’s former cellmates. ”I arrived in prison in November 2021 and he was in charge of taking the press to the modules and the library (…) he had privileges. He was a cold man, quite selective and intelligent,’ declared Manuel. Furthermore, the interviewee claimed that “Basterra blamed Rosario” and “that he felt used.” ”He had a lot of emotional dependence on her,” he stressed.
