The husband of the young Paraguayan resident in Lanzarote Romina Celeste Núñez, has confessed before the jury that is trying him for murder that he killed her at dawn on New Year's Eve 2019, -something he admits for the first time-, and that he later made her body disappear .
On the first day of the trial against Raúl Díaz Chacón at the Las Palmas Court, he has rejected what had always been his version since the day the Civil Guard arrested him: that his wife was found dead at the return home at dawn and that he burned and threw the corpse into the sea because he feared that he would be blamed, since Romina had previously denounced him for sexist violence.
Through his defense, the defendant has pleaded guilty to homicide, ill-treatment and the rest of the charges against him and has accepted the sentence proposed by the Prosecutor's Office and the victim's family: 15 years and nine months in prison, five years less than the one they had been demanding, because now they recognize in their favor the repair of the damage (they have compensated the family with 300,000 euros) and the delays that the case has suffered.
Her confession definitively confirms that Romina Celeste Núñez, who was 29 years old, was the first victim of gender violence in Spain in 2019 and puts an end to a case that had been awaiting trial for more than four and a half years for different resources and vicissitudes, to the point that the defendant was released in January because he had already exhausted the maximum time in prison without sentencing.
The case began to be investigated after the discovery of organic remains on a beach in eastern Lanzarote on January 5, 2019. The analyzes determined that they corresponded to Romina Celeste, who disappeared on New Year's Eve.
Days later, the Investigating Court number 1 of Arrecife (Lanzarote) ordered her husband's admission to prison for the crimes of homicide or murder and habitual abuse. The magistrate considered that there were indications that Raúl Díaz Chacón had killed Romina Celeste, contrary to what he had maintained: that he found her dead on New Year's Eve when he returned home, got nervous and disposed of her body. . The Civil Guard had put him under surveillance since he went to the barracks to report the disappearance of his wife, a week late.
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