MADRID, May 6. (CultureLeisure) –
The Asunta casethe new series of Netflix, premiered several days ago and is still making people talk. The project has divided the public between those who consider it to be a good true crime and those who do not see it ethical to approach such a recent history from fiction. In any case, There are some obvious differences between reality and the series.
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The work is the creation of Ramon Campos, also responsible for the documentary released a few years ago about The Asunta Case. On this occasion, since it is a fictionthe creative has modified certain elements so that they fit more organically into the narrative mechanisms of the series starring Candela Pena and Tristan Ulloa.
THE JUDGE AND THE LAWYERS
One of the main changes is in the judge characters instructor and lawyers of Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra. The judge in the series is called Malvarbut in reality his name is Vazquez Tain. Furthermore, in the Netflix episodes it is made clear that at all times he distrusts his parents. Assunta and he wants them to be the ones to blame. The true magistrate has made it clear that at no time did he judge the couple, he only carried out the investigation. It was the popular jury who was in charge of ruling.
As for the lawyers, José Luis Arangureninterpreted by Francesc Orellawas the one defended Rosariowhile Bethlehem Hospidowhich gives life Alicia Borracherodid the same with Alfonso. The series shows how Aranguren was the one who convinced Hospido to join the defense. But In reality, she was involved in the case before him.. A detail that has been complained about on television.
CIVIL GUARD AGENTS
In The Asunta case, Netflix has also given a lot of importance to two characters interpreted by María León and Carlos Blanco. They are the two main civil guards who helped in the investigation of the case. These are, however, a reduction of the actual equipment of the Civil Guard who intervened, then there were many more agents. Campos chose to personify them in order to provide greater cohesion and humanity to his story.
Furthermore, both are represented from two perspectives on parenthood to provide drama in the crime of parents against their daughter. She is a woman who wants to get pregnant and resorts to in vitro fertilization. He is a grandfather totally dedicated to caring for his granddaughter. These subplots also arise from the real Civil Guard team that was in charge of the investigation.
THE LOVER OF ROSARIO
A third difference is the role of Rosario lover. In the Netflix seriesis called Vincent. But in reality, at the time it emerged that this character, who is real, his real name was Manuel.
According to one of the two main hypotheses that show the flashbacks of the series, in a totally indirect and involuntary way, it would be a key element in the crime, since it is one of the triggers that lead Rosario to murder Asunta. But in reality, Defense attorneys rejected his statement. when he was called to testify because they considered that It would not contribute anything other than generating unnecessary morbidity if.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ASUNTA
In the series, it is also suggested that Alfonso Basterra took compromising photographs of his daughter, of allegedly sexual content. A hypothesis that receives even more weight when Asian pornographic material is found on his laptop.
However, Asunta’s photographs also appeared on Rosario’s cell phone. And although the media focused on the matter, the pornographic material on Alfonso’s computer was not taken into account by the jury in the trial.
THE HYPOTHESES OF THE SERIES
In the fifth episode of The Asunta Case, Netflix launches two possible hypotheses. One is the view of the investigating judgewhich points to Alfonso and Rosario as co-authors of the murder with Basterra as the mastermind of the crime, while the other Civil Guard agent who interprets Maria Leonwhich focuses on Rosario and her precarious mental health as the real trigger of the crime… with Alfonso as the accessory once the murder was perpetrated.
Despite these versions, the truth is that The trial had a final sentence in which Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra were convicted. Therefore, it is a closed case.
