“There is no way to justify this. I can’t even understand myself. [Lo que hice] It is not my life, it has nothing to do. Nor in the previous 39 years [hasta el momento del crimen, en septiembre de 2013] Not later. I don’t know why it happened, ”he said, with a commissioning tone, this morning.
The accused of rapeing and killing the gerocultor, wife and mother of 46 years, when she returned home to take a walk through her village of Lavandeira (Cabanas, A Coruña), has broken this Friday at noon the silence she held during the trial at the Provincial Court of A Coruña. When the judge has offered him the opportunity of the last word, the defendant, who faces penalty requests of 32 (prosecution) and 37 years (private accusation), has assured that this crime that fell silent for 10 years, until the Civil Guard identified him genetically, was a “punctual” fact.
That “I’m not me. I have no way to compensate that damage. I’m sorry … what I can say is no longer use,” he said while in the room, behind him, Elisa Abruñedo’s family demanded to apologize. “I am not able to understand that behavior of a timely moment,” concluded Roger Rodríguez, the naval mechanic, hunter, discreet and redhead, that that hot first of September 2013, at about 8:40 p.m., was driving along the same road through which. They did not know each other. He saw her hurriedly her dark gray ZX, waited for her and attacked her in the back. He hit her in the jaw, dragged her 17 meters to an area with brambles as high as a person, undressed her, raped her and her with her hunting knife. Elisa’s agony lasted a few minutes, according to the coroner. She died clenching some branches of the weeds with her left hand and was found by two neighbors the next day. But Roger Rodríguez did not see how he expired or dress, cover or place his body.
The aggressor left his DNA in the form of sperm and saliva and fled the place in a certain way, in perfect straight line, for the marks printed on the grass. He knew the land well for his hunting shakes. His mistake was to believe that because he was not registered in any police database. But its hair color is not too common. The researchers have a decade to locate a, resident in the nearby town of Narón, who although he had changed his car was the head of a ZX at the time of the events; The car that had come to see, badly parked, a neighbor.
The defendant’s ex officio has described the facts as “completely atrocious and reprehensible” and explained that “the next day he was as if he had forgotten.” However, the lawyer has defended that his client “recognizes sexual aggression and homicide” and that his duty is to ensure that he benefits from the most favorable law. For him there was no premeditation; No cruelty, since all the knife went to kill; nor abuse of superiority; Nor aggravating gender, regulated in 2015, two years after crime, when there was no permanent reviewable prison.
The victim, says the defense, “had the option of defending himself,” “he resisted” and “asked for relief,” as a neighbor said, who heard that sunset a female voice saying “Leave me alone, let me live”, in what meant it was a couple’s discussion. The lawyer, therefore, believes that in the trial the alevosía has not been accredited and asks that the conviction be for homicide, instead of murder.
Elisa gave “worse treatment that any hunter gives to an animal,” one of the lawyers of the private accusation has reproached. “She the only crime she committed was to go out to take a walk,” said Adrián Fernández’s representative, the eldest son of the victim, who together with the lawyer of the other son, Álvaro, added in this last session the aggravating abuse of abuse of superiority, in addition to those who already contemplated, of gender and use of the circumstances of place and time. The particular accusation does see alevosía and cruelty and asks that Roger Serafín Rodríguez be convicted of murder, in addition to sexual aggression. “There was a completely unnecessary agony,” he defended, “he didn’t have to give him that cluster of blows and if he wanted to kill her from the first knife [en el cuello]he would have done it “by cutting the jugular. Elisa” could not ask for help “and the attitude of his executioner was” totally inhuman, reproachable, despicable, “he has settled,” from the legal and moral point and from the point of view of a hunter, who tends to finish off his prey so he does not suffer. ”
“Elisa was: for him it was one more prey,” the other accusation lawyer, representing Álvaro Fernández Abruñedo, the youngest son, who does not want to leave home or interact with people from the tragedy, has abounded in the hunter metaphor. “Elisa had the misfortune of crossing with evil in its purest form,” he said, “and he acted with extreme cruelty, moved by the Here I command y Because I wantto consummate absolute domain ”.
The gerocultor of Cabanas, whose “only hobby” was “to go for a walk” on the roads between nearby villages “before or after her shifts in the geriatric”, he suffered “unnecessarily” because his attacker “wanted me to suffer,” the lawyer insisted. The defendant does not have, according to the forensic psychiatrist in charge of preparing the imputability report ,. “Simply,” the lawyer recalled the statement of this doctor, “there are people who do evil because they want, because they feel powerful doing it … they do not feel empathy, or guilt. They do not care about the suffering of others.”
Roger Rodríguez “ruined the life of Adrián and Álvaro,” who also lost their father in 2015 in a work accident, recalled the lawyer of the youngest son. “We are facing the two most serious acts that can be committed on a person,” he stressed: sexual assault and a murder perpetrated with complete awareness, planning and willingness to cause suffering. “
“Evil exists”
“Simply, evil exists,” said the fiscal of the case. Roger Serafín Rodríguez “did not dissociate reality” as his lawyer said in the first session: “He committed the crime knowing what he did and wanting to do it.” The Prosecutor’s Office, however, disagrees at some points with the private accusation and does not ask that, in the sentence, the aggravating gender and abuse of superiority or possible teaching. “The violence was instrumental”, the necessary to achieve its objective, the spokeswoman of the Fiscal Ministry has argued. “Elisa suffered the unspeakable, as a consequence of a brutal attack” but “necessary,” he defended.
“Elisa could not defend himself,” he continued to explain his vision of the facts to the popular jury – which will deliberate about the case from that next Wednesday – the representative of the Public Ministry. The defendant “took care that no one saw and executed the only witness.” And if it weren’t because the Civil Guard of A Coruña never left the case, the red -haired hunter of Cabanas “almost goes out with his.”
