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Catalonia (/ ˌ k æ t ə ˈ l oʊ n i ə /; Catalan: Catalunya [kətəˈluɲə] ; Spanish: Cataluña [kataˈluɲa] ; Occitan: Catalonha [kataˈluɲa]) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range.
Barcelona ( / ˌbɑːrsəˈloʊnə / ⓘ BAR-sə-LOH-nə, Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə] ⓘ, Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona] ⓘ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city ...
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- Death and Investigation
- Reconstruction
- Research
- Verdict
- Sentence and Imprisonment
- Suicide of Rosario Porto
- Cultural Impact and Media Depiction
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Asunta Basterra was born Fang Yong in 2000 in Yongzhou, Hunan, China. At nine months old she was adopted by Alfonso Basterra Camporro (born 1964) and María del Rosario Porto Ortega (1969–2020), an affluent Spanish couple from Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. Asunta was the first Chinese child to be adopted in the city of Santiago and one of the fir...
Asunta was first reported missing by her parents at 10:17pm on Saturday, 21 September 2013. They had eaten lunch together at her father's home that afternoon. Asunta was seen on a bank's security camera at 2pm walking to her father's house, and appeared on that same security camera at 5:21pm returning home to her mother's flat. Porto was seen on th...
The parents' activities could be reconstructed in the hours leading up to their daughter's disappearance and death, thanks to testimonies, surveillance cameras, and records from phones and digital devices: 1. 01:55 pm. Asunta leaves her home; 2. 02:00 pm. She passes a bank branch camera on her way to her father's flat, with whom she is going to hav...
In a first version of the events, Rosario Porto had declared that she left Asunta at around 19:00 hours at her home in Santiago de Compostela, and that when she returned a couple of hours later, the girl was no longer there. On Tuesday, 24 September, after the cremationof her daughter's body, Rosario was arrested and charged due to the inconsistenc...
At the end of the trial, which lasted more than four weeks and for which 135 witnesses were called,and after four days of deliberation, the jury returned a guilty verdict for both parents that resolved some of the main issues in the case, but also left doubts. The jury considered (in section 9 of the proven facts) that the time of death was between...
On 16 March 2016, the High Court of Justice of Galicia dismissed the appealsof the lawyers of both parents and confirmed the 18-year sentence, although it acknowledged that it was Rosario who suffocated her daughter. On 22 November, the Supreme Courtalso dismissed the appeals of the defence, acknowledging that there was no evidence of Alfonso Baste...
Rosario Porto attempted suicide in prison on two occasions. On 24 February 2017, after it was announced that she was going to be transferred to the prison of A Lama, in Pontevedra, she was found unconscious due to an intake of sleeping pills that she had been accumulating and had to be admitted to a hospital.She was subsequently transferred, and on...
In Spain, the disappearance and death of Asunta Basterra has attracted more media coverage and public attention than any other crime. The Professional Association of Journalists of Galicia and the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Santiago de Compostela criticised in a statement the news treatment given to the Asunta case. The BNG, Galicia...
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Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
