"He always gave her orchids and flowers." Sitting in front of the house that Romina Celeste Núñez Rodríguez was building, with the money she regularly sent from Spain, in Ñemby (one of the cities of the Central Department of Paraguay, in Asunción) her mother Miriam Rodríguez cries inconsolably. She doesn't understand how the man who prepared the guava juices, which her daughter loved so much, could have ended her life. "They have torn my heart out," she exclaimed between rage and pain.
But between the orchids and the guava juices, a real ordeal was hidden that ended with her death in the early hours of January 1. Although the Civil Guard continues to tie up loose ends to reconstruct the last hours of the 28-year-old Paraguayan woman, the truth is that they are convinced that Raúl Díaz was directly responsible for her disappearance.
This 44-year-old industrial engineer, who has worked at the Lanzarote power plant since 2013, has admitted that he got rid of Romina Núñez's body, although he insists that he found her dead when he arrived at his house, located in the El Palmeral residential area of Costa Teguise, after three in the afternoon on January 1. His alibi is that he left his home shortly after the New Year's Eve chimes due to the fight they had after she demanded money to bring her young four-year-old son from Paraguay.
Although it is true that Romina Núñez wanted to bring her young son to Spain, the husband's version has been questioned by the Civil Guard. According to her mother, Romina had planned a trip to Asunción in mid-December but canceled it at the last minute to process the papers for Spanish nationality. A flight that she postponed to the second week of January and that she was never able to take.
After the initial investigations and in accordance with the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the magistrate of the Court of Violence against Women of Arrecife ordered Raúl Díaz to be imprisoned last Wednesday for the alleged commission of the crimes of continued mistreatment, homicide or murder (a qualification that must be specified as the investigations progress).
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