The Prosecutor's Office has asked the Las Palmas Court to force the alleged murderer of the young Paraguayan Romina Celeste Núñez, her husband Raúl D.C., who has been free since last Friday, to appear daily before a court, considering that there is a high risk of flight, even greater since he moved his residence from Lanzarote to Madrid.
The second section of the Court had already ordered Raúl D.C. to appear every Monday in court, but the delegated prosecutor of Violence against Women of Las Palmas, Jesús Javier Lomba, has appealed his decision to demand a more severe measure, which forces the defendant to appear daily before Justice, even when the date of his trial is set.
The Public Prosecutor's Office thus insists on a measure that it already suggested, without success, on January 9, four days before Raúl D.C. left the Tahíche prison for serving the maximum period of pre-trial detention pending trial (four years).
In its appeal, the Prosecutor's Office alleges that the release order does not explain in its legal reasoning the reasons why its request was not accepted, so it considers that the right to effective judicial protection is violated.
It adds that "in a succinct manner, it exclusively alludes to the reason for the passage of time and the maximum period in provisional prison, although it does not make any pronouncement on the circumstances on which the Prosecutor's Office warns that there is a high risk of flight, which, "objectively, is highly probable", since he has already moved his residence to the Community of Madrid and has economic means.
Lomba emphasizes that he is an alleged perpetrator of crimes of homicide/murder, habitual abuse, injuries in the family environment, simulation of crime and desecration of a corpse.
In the letter dated January 9, Lomba already requested that the accused appear daily when he was released in response to the request for penalties by the accusations that, in all cases, exceed 20 years in prison and reach up to 30 years of deprivation of liberty, and for the upcoming holding of the oral trial, only pending resolution by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands of the appeal against the order of December 1, 2022 that dismissed the preliminary issues raised by the defense.
For the prosecutor, this appeal by the defense is part of a strategy to enable the defendant to leave the island of Lanzarote because he has family in the peninsula and to plan the removal from the action of Justice and compromise his availability to the calls that could be made.
In fact, the accused, after being released, has established his residence in the Community of Madrid, with which the departure from the national territory is even "easier and possible".
According to Lomba, the transport routes are no longer limited to the ship or plane but to all the land means that facilitate mobility to leave our country, reinforced in the absence of strict border controls in the scope of the European Union, not being necessary the presentation of a passport for such purpose.
Lomba also argues that indicatively the accused and his environment have considerable economic power, which would also facilitate evading justice, by virtue of the statements of his defense for a possible agreement and consignment of a significant economic amount as compensation and reparation of the damage.
Romina Celeste Núñez died on January 1, 2019 in her house in Costa Teguise. Her husband admitted before the investigating judge that he burned her body, dismembered it and threw it at different points on the coast of Lanzarote, but to date he has always denied having murdered her, since he maintains that he found his wife dead when he returned home in the early morning and that he was scared, because he feared that he would be blamed (Romina had already denounced him for mistreatment).
