The mother of the young Romina Celeste Núñez, who was killed by her husband in Lanzarote on January 1, 2019, will not be able to bury in Paraguay, her country, the only remains that were recovered from her daughter, because they have been destroyed due to an error, according to her lawyer's complaint this Wednesday.
The lawyer Emilia Zaballos told Televisión Canaria that Míriam Rodríguez has flown this Wednesday to Asunción with the displeasure of not being able to bury what was left of her daughter after her husband, Raúl Díaz, killed her, burned her body, cut it into pieces and threw the remains into the sea at various points in Lanzarote.
Specifically, it is a piece of lung that was found on January 15, 2019 on Las Cucharas beach, two weeks after Romina disappeared from her home in Costa Teguise, and which was identified as part of her body by DNA tests.
Zaballos has now confessed to her client after obtaining a guilty verdict for Raúl Díaz something that she knew for some time and did not want to tell her until this moment, so as not to sink her further: that those lung remains had been destroyed by an error that she attributes to the Arrecife Court that investigated the case, committed when the magistrate who initiated the investigation was replaced by another.
According to this lawyer, the Institute of Legal Medicine gave the judge three months to consult the parties (including the family) what to do with those remains, but the instructor did not transfer that location to the accusations and defense, no one answered and the lung was destroyed.
Zaballos has stressed that Míriam Rodríguez is very sad, because, in addition to hoping that justice would be done with the homicide of her daughter, she longed to bury what was left of her in her country of origin to watch over her there and complete her mourning.
The defense is now in contact with the Institute of Legal Medicine to try to get them to deliver to Romina's mother the small tissue samples that were extracted from the lung for DNA tests, so that at least she can give them a symbolic burial.
