The Spanish Television program Mañaneros has exclusively interviewed an inmate who shared many moments in prison with Rosario Porto, the Galician lawyer who was sentenced in 2015 to 18 years in prison for murdering her daughter Asunta Basterra Porto. He was also convicted of the same crime by her ex-husband Alfonso Basterra.
Although the case shocked Spanish society in 2013, expectation has increased considerably now with the premiere of the series about the murder on Netflix. This fiction, starring Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa, has caused a real social stir and has made many viewers wonder what really happened to the condemned.
In the conversation with the prisoner, the reporter from the Spanish Television program verified that Porto was not an aggressive woman in prison, nor did she cause any type of problem or altercation with the rest of the inmates.
According to the journalist who spoke with the witness, Rosario cried all the time and defended being a victim of her own family, the press, her ex-husband, society’s comments, etc. ”For her, he was innocent and did not kill her, he always repeated it and cried a lot,” the woman explained.
”She always told me that her goal in life was to find her daughter’s murderers. That was her goal. She always asked me ‘do you think I killed her? Because of the way she acts… she wouldn’t kill a fly (…) I think she didn’t do it and I maintain it and I will always maintain it,’ Rosario’s former partner has expressed, leaving without words to the interviewer.
The woman has also made it clear in the conversation with the La 1 magazine that Porto suffered ‘harassment’ in prison and that they said all kinds of atrocities to her. Furthermore, she has explained that she was present at the time she was transferred to the Ávila prison. According to María, this decision was made without notifying Porto, something that, for her, could have led to her suicide.
María explained that the Galician woman warned her of her intention to end her life when she found out about the transfer, since she did not feel strong enough to withstand the media pressure, among other things.
The different collaborators of the program presented by Jaime Cantizano have given their opinion on the testimony of the woman who committed suicide on November 18, 2020 in her cell in the Brieva prison, Ávila.
While some have pointed out that Porto decided to end her life because she could not face everything she was going to find when she went out into the street (she was about to receive her first permits), others have started a debate about whether the woman He should have been in another type of psychiatric center to avoid this outcome.
