The lawyer for Romina Celeste’s family calls the TSJC report “shameful”

File photo of a concentration in Lanzarote against the freedom of the alleged murderer of Romina. CARRASCO

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He will file a complaint with the CGPJ after the investigation after the release of the alleged murderer concluded that there were no errors in the investigation

The lawyer for Romina Celeste’s family, Emilia Zaballos, described this Saturday as
“shameful” the report of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) that has concluded that there were no failures in the investigation of the case of the death of the young woman run by a court in Lanzarote.

Her husband and alleged murderer, Raúl Díaz, was provisionally released on January 13 after exceeding the maximum time of four years in pretrial detention provided by law.

According to the lawyer Emilia Zaballos, the delays in these four years of the procedure are evident. «It strikes me that Emilio Moya [el magistrado que ha encabezado la investigación del TSJC]
only protect all the judges below him and not really that justice is done in favor of the victims of sexist violence, “ it states.

According to the TSJC, during the four years of investigation of the case “at no time has it been paralyzed”, but, on the contrary, the issuance of resolutions by the magistrate and the two substitute judges who were in charge of that period of the Investigating Court No. 1 of Arrecife “has been practically continuous.”

The instructor does see, on the other hand, in the investigation for the release of the defendant “some anomaly in the excessive duration of the preparation of some expert reports.”

Zaballos considers that the irregularities in the instruction are “patent and clear” and only an attempt has been made to “cover up” the failures. Thus, he affirms that “there is evidence” that the instruction during these four years has been “paralyzed”:
“There are procedures that begin in 2019 and in 2023 they still have not been carried out.”

For the lawyer of the family of the young woman allegedly murdered by her husband, there is evidence of the “inefficiency” in the investigation of the case by the current judge. “That the body has not appeared does not mean anything, because the impressive work of the first judge who investigated the case as the homicide group of the Civil Guard was impeccable and in record time the DNA test of the piece of Romina’s lung was carried out. that appeared”.

The alleged murderer of the young woman has not recognized the sexist crime
but he did burn the body of the young woman, dismembered it and threw it in different parts of Lanzarote.

“There were plenty of arguments to advance the prosecution and defense briefs to transfer them to the Provincial Court and that the trial be held by jury,” concludes the lawyer. And she downplays the delay of certain expert evidence, such as that of a pair of scissors:
“The important thing is that she is dead and that he dismembered her”. “The president of the Provincial Court washes his hands” taking refuge in lack of means for the future, he adds.

The lawyer announces that next week she will urgently submit a complaint to the General Council of the Judiciary detailing the failures of the investigation, and will also address the General Council of the Legal Profession, for the “excess and abuse of the use of resources by the defense lawyers» of the presumed sexist murderer, and the State Attorney General’s Office.