The deputy of the Popular Parliamentary Group for Lanzarote, Astrid Pérez, has urged the Minister of Public Administrations and Justice of the Government of the Canary Islands, Julio Pérez, to provide more resources to the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in order to guarantee the efficiency of a service that is key in the judicial processes that are processed in our autonomous community. A demand that, the deputy has highlighted, the Popular Party has been making for years due to the delay in the formalization of reports.
Astrid Pérez made this request during her plenary intervention in which she questioned the minister about the delay that occurred in carrying out some expert tests in the case of the young woman murdered by her partner, Romina Celeste, and whose tragic death shocked the Lanzarote society in December 2019.
The regional parliamentarian has highlighted the importance of determining the cause of the delay of one of the expert reports initially requested by the Investigating Court to the Institute of Legal Medicine, dependent on the Government of the Canary Islands, in January 2020. A year later, in July 2021, the court sends the characteristics of the scissors in question and it is not until April 2022, when the Forensic Medical Institute sends the final report to the court. "In total, -she stressed- we are talking about 28 months - when the legal term for the preventive provision is two years plus two years of extension."
"The sum of circumstances means that the accused of murdering Romina, for whom the Prosecutor's Office is asking for 20 years in prison, has been released and is on the street today." "A story that seems like science fiction but is as surreal as it is real, unfortunately," said the deputy, who assured that these kinds of things happen "when the government is dedicated to insulting judges instead of sitting down to reform and improve the judicial system."
Astrid Pérez regretted that during this time no member of the government has been heard giving explanations or resigning, when "if the alleged murderer is on the street it is because the system itself and the government itself have opened the door for him."
