The prosecutor within the Manuela Chavero case: “She was a normal woman who had the bad luck of crossing paths with a sexually depraved person” | Spain | EUROtoday

The thriller of Manuela Chavero's disappearance started within the early morning of July 4, 2016 and ended with the invention of her physique in September 2020, when her neighbor Eugenio D. confessed that he had buried her on his farm. What 9 women and men from Extremadura are requested this week is what occurred that evening contained in the accused's home and, above all, why. The model of the household and the prosecution is that the accused raped her whereas she suffocated her to demise. He maintains that the sufferer hit her head whereas making an attempt to maneuver a crib in his house, 100 meters from Manuela's within the city of Monesterio (4,000 inhabitants). The 4 years that the girl spent underground on Eugenio's property decreased her corpse to bones and erased all organic traces. But the Chavero Valiente household clings to the psychological profile of the accused to justify the sexual motive as the one doable one and keep in mind that there’s one other case during which she was convicted of rape with out traces of semen: that of Diana Quer.

Manuela's brothers and mom have been current in all classes of the trial that started on Monday and which they hope will finish with a everlasting, reviewable jail sentence. Emilia, the eldest, mentioned as she left the Provincial Court of Badajoz within the first days that in essentially the most delicate moments she regarded on the floor in order to not must see such harsh photos. “I haven't been able to read the entire summary,” she commented. The determination made by the members of the favored jury will put an finish, in a technique or one other, to a case that started eight years in the past when the 42-year-old girl disappeared in the midst of the evening when she was already at house, with all the things prepared to go away. went to sleep and left the TV on and the mobile phone at house.

Eugenio claims that, round two within the morning, he knocked on her door to ask her if she needed to take the crib that he had lent her a while in the past for a few of her pals to make use of, that they each entered her home, and that there she fell and died. . His explanations about how the alleged accident occurred have at all times been imprecise and the Civil Guard by no means gave them credibility. “The accused describes a circus pirouette, it is an unprecedented explanation,” mentioned the Prosecutor's Office.

The accusations paint Eugenio, who’s now 31 years outdated, as a virtually asocial and primitive being who sees ladies as inferior beings to dominate and that’s what he carried out that evening: an act of submission. “There is no economic motive or anything sentimental or possible revenge. Manuela was a normal woman, like any of us, who had the bad luck of crossing paths with a sexually depraved person,” the prosecutor mentioned. “She killed her for being a woman and because she has distorted the concept of sexual freedom for women, I don't care if it's because of how he was raised or for what reason. And it is also very likely that she enjoyed it,” the Chaveros' lawyer, Verónica Guerrero, accomplished in her remaining conclusions. The lawyer ended her intervention crying and apologizing.

The consultant of the general public ministry has added the annoying issue of gender to his request for conviction by contemplating that the crime occurred “in a context of sexist domination.” “She was a neighbor, she had known her all her life, she coveted her and took advantage of the moment,” indicated the lawyer for Manuea's youngsters, who had been 6 and 14 years outdated on the time of the occasions.

In the room there was speak about one other girl: Diana Quer. The younger girl was raped and murdered only a month and a half after the disappearance of Manuela Chavero. Her physique remained submerged in an industrial warehouse for a yr and a half, till the Civil Guard arrested the offender and located her physique. As within the case of Manuela, the time elapsed and the environmental circumstances made it tough to reconstruct the final minutes of the sufferer's life, however that didn’t stop El Chicle from being thought of responsible of sexual assault and, due to this fact, sentenced to everlasting reviewable jail, the sentence requested for Eugenio D. His lawyer has indicated that it’s not doable to check each circumstances as a result of El Chicle had a number of open judicial proceedings for sexual assault that indicated a transparent sample.

The accusations and the general public prosecutor's workplace ask the jury to have a look at numerous proof to contemplate that the accused raped the girl. Firstly, the psychological profile ready by the legal habits evaluation part of the Civil Guard, which decided that he was a sadist with sexist concepts, little tolerance for feminine rejection and emotional immaturity. He additionally reminds them that the physique was bare, however wrapped in a sheet belonging to the accused. “Her explanation that he took off her clothes to prevent the vermin from pulling them does not fit with her later wrapping him up, especially since he even took off her underwear,” the prosecutor mentioned. The legal professionals have additionally emphasised the messages of contempt that he despatched to a number of prostitutes and a sexual encounter with a lady whose hair he pulled when he didn’t have an erection.

There is a phrase that the accused supposedly uttered within the reconstruction of the occasions, in 2020, which has been very current in all of the classes. The Civil Guard investigators guarantee that when the canines detected organic stays in an space of ​​the farm's shed, the accused grew to become scared and instructed them in a low voice that if there was semen on the physique, it was his as a result of that they had had consensual relations. Upon verifying that the physique didn’t current any stays, he renounced this assertion. “I am not going to assess whether what they tell the agents is true or not, but it is not valid evidence because it should have been confirmed before the judge,” said the lawyer defending Eugenio D.

In the final two classes, 4 totally different groups of forensic specialists intervened to evaluate how Manuela might have died. They all agree that the accidents on her physique are incompatible with the accused's model of the incident, however none of them ventures to explain how precisely her demise occurred. The most conclusive was the famend anthropologist Miguel Botella, who claims that the sufferer's cranium had sunken eye sockets and that the accidents to her ribs might have triggered asphyxiation. The specialists cited by the protection maintained that among the accidents might have been brought on by blows throughout the switch of the physique. “Manuela's bones spoke and told us that she had suffered a tremendous beating,” the prosecutor maintained.

Eugenio D. didn’t wish to converse on this final session, though the regulation provides him the appropriate to a final phrase. The jury will obtain between at this time and tomorrow the questionnaire to which they must reply to rule on what occurred on the accused's home that early morning in July 2016.

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