Since Netflix released the series about the crime of Asunta Basterra Porto at the hands of her parents, Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra, the case has once again made hundreds of headlines in all types of written and audiovisual media in our country and around the world. .
The Asunta case presents the already known story through the sublime interpretations of Candela Peña, María León, Tristán Ulloa and Javier Gutiérrez, something that has caught the attention of millions of viewers. The project has occupied the number one position of the most viewed in our country (on Netflix), but has also obtained great numbers in other territories such as Argentina, the United States, the United Kingdom, etc.
The series shows how the parents tried to mislead the authorities and were later arrested as the main suspects in the murder of the 12-year-old girl. Finally, both were accused and sentenced to 18 years in prison for murdering Asunta.
While the father is still serving his sentence in prison, Rosario Porto could not withstand the pressure and ended his life in his cell in November 2020. He never acknowledged responsibility for the crime and defended his innocence to the end.
During the last few weeks, different people from around Basterra and Porto have been appearing on television programs and interviews. In these appearances, fellow prisoners, acquaintances… have given their opinion about the former couple and have given more clues about her strange personalities.
This morning Luis Ferrer, who was the Galician lawyer’s psychiatrist, attended the Spanish Television program Mañaneros. The woman came to her appointment with him two or three times a month and they spent two or three hours talking.
When the journalist asked him if Porto could really pretend for years, the doctor answered clearly that the Galician woman spent a lot of time looking for a “real” culprit as if she were totally innocent: “It’s like that, that was the emotional and psychological state of this woman all the years she was in prison. Some seasons she fainted, other times she was a little better, but always with a feeling of emotional devastation. At no time did she maintain a minimally normal attitude.”
The interview with the doctor has made clear the idea that Porto did not at any time play a role, but rather lived his reality sincerely. The problem here is whether this reality was more or less faithful to the truth, since Porto had great psychological and emotional problems.
”It is very difficult for him to maintain a role because there were many hours of conversation and treatment and it is very rare that in so much time he does not have a small lapse or a contradiction. The situation was always very flat, of enormous pain, enormous sadness, continuous crying and permanent anguish. We would not be facing a psychopathic profile. He did not have a psychopathic or perverse structure at all. Her story gave her away, she was an emotionally fragile woman,’ Ferrer said.
