These were the controversial conversations between Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra in the dungeons that were not admitted to trial

September 22, 2013 was a day that shocked Galicia. A 12-year-old girl named Asunta Basterra Porto, that had disappeared the day before, She was found lifeless on a forest track in the municipality of Teo, in A Coruña. The well-known ‘Asunta Case’ then began, whose judicial investigation was called ‘Operation Nenúfar’.

Two years later, Asunta’s parents, Alfonso Basterra and Rosario Porto, were sentenced after the reading of a popular verdict to 18 years in prison for murder aggravated by relationship. But before the trial and subsequent conviction, a chronology of events occurred that, without a doubt, kept the country in suspense.

When were they accused of the murder of Asunta?

The judge in charge of the case was the well-known magistrate José Antonio Vázquez Taín. It all started with the report of his disappearance by his parents on the afternoon of September 21, 2013.. A few hours later, the girl’s body was found in an area near a family home in Montouto (Teo) and, during the investigation, a series of evidence was collected that incriminated the parents.

On the one hand, the orange ropes found in the family home, which had the same characteristics as those used to tie the body of the 12-year-old girl. On the other hand, the discovery of traces of lorazepam in large quantities in her blood. Rosario Porto was arrested on September 24 due to contradictions and inconsistencies in his statements. Shortly after, Alfonso Basterra was also arrested.

The most controversial phrases between Basterra and Porto

Definitely, the conversations that both had and that were recorded while they were in the dungeon, They provided details about the event, although finally the Provincial Court of A Coruña refused to admit these conversations in the case for the crime of little Asunta.

“Have you had time to get rid of that?” Rosario Porto commented to Alfonso Basterra during the dialogue. While, Basterra tried to reassure Porto by telling him that “everything was going to be fine” and that it was better not to say “nothing inconvenient” because they would probably be recording them. “You and your little games”, was another of the phrases from Porto to Basterra.

“Your feverish imagination is going to cause us a lot of problems.” This, without a doubt, was one of the phrases that caused the most controversy and was addressed to Antonio Basterra by Rosario Porto.