For Ramón Rodríguez it was just a "struggle" that caused serious head injuries to his partner. For the Prosecutor's Office, it was an attempted homicide for which Rodríguez will sit in the dock of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas next Monday to face a trial that could keep him in prison for nine years.
It is the first of the two cases pending against this well-known construction businessman, 55 years old, who was arrested again last February, accused of assaulting his wife, Teresa Martín, after she was found seriously injured in the house she shared with him in La Vegueta. Apparently, after the altercation, the man left the house, leaving the woman injured, and hours later he surrendered to the Civil Guard.
Since then he has been in pre-trial detention at the Tahíche Penitentiary Center, where he spends the day in charge of maintaining the gardens. "I was the second company in Lanzarote to pioneer the construction sector, and now I am locked up here between four walls," he told La Voz de Lanzarote.
Ramón Rodríguez, who was already in pre-trial detention in 2005, believes that he is currently in prison because of "drugs" and because of "how things are today". "Nobody knows what happened, or how it happened, but they blame only one person and nowadays we men are to blame," he says about his current stay in prison, where he awaits "Teresita's forgiveness".