Since it was announced that a fiction about the known Asunta Case, a popular doubt was generated, perfectly understandable. How was it going to be undertaken? According to what hypothesis? Because? What reflections were going to arise in this regard?
The producer Ramon Campos had already addressed the crime in a previous documentary directed by León Siminiani, as happened with the Alcasser case. If in the latter they focused on the repercussions media and the social circus that was set up around it, some issues that had never been proven and that were considered valid were also pointed out.
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The same thing happens in this miniseries for Netflix in which Candela Pena puts itself in the skin of Rosario Porto and Tristan Ulloa in the of Alfonso Basterraboth figures convicted of the murder of their daughter Assunta When I was 12 years old. Reasons? They still don’t know.
One of the aspects of the case, in which the series stops repeatedly, is in the possession by Alfonso Basterra of Photographs supposedly committed of Asunta, as if it were pornographic material.
It is true that the media, in the maelstrom of the matter during the weeks following the girl’s death, gave voice to this element of the investigation. But these photographs were not taken solely from the mobile of Basterra, nor did they have the weight in the resolution of the case that the Netflix series.
The Civil Guard obtained these images of Alfonso’s phone being dumped, but also of Rosario Porto’s. In it laptop of the father, who the investigators did not find in the first search of his home, appeared graphic files of young asian that were not taken into account by the popular jury in his verdict.
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Nor those of Asunta herself. At the trial, the prosecutor showed the photograph of the little girl posing in an armchair wearing a dress. dancer cabaret It was shown that the image had been taken after a school performance and the jurors threw it out as evidence.
This is one of the resources that are used to justify and whiten indiscriminately the image of Rosario Portowhich in the series appears as a victim of the circumstances.
Furthermore, in one of the most controversialit is considered good reconstruction of the facts that do not conform to reality and that have to do with an assumption tried of suicide from Rosario Porto the same day he killed his daughter Asunta. A way of validating assumptions to justify a character beyond what could actually happen.
The series tells that, after the meal in which the little girl was drugged with the drug LorazepamRosario argued with Alfonso and was about to take a deadly cocktail of benzodiazepines that she finally gave to her daughter (which, it is known, they had been administering for a long period).
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According to the ruling in the case, Asunta was intoxicated with the same medication that his mother used to treat his disorder depressive, but at no point does it conclude that Rosario tried to take her own life hours before the little girl’s death.
Once in prison, he did try a couple of times, until November 19, 2020. hanged in the jail from Brieva (Ávila) where he was serving his sentence.
In the series we analyze, furthermore, little is taken into account of the Asunta Basterraas if it were a abstract entity. Here the real focus of attention is the morbidity that is generated around them, as if, in some way, we had lost any hint of humanity when approaching a terrible murder.
