This Friday, the Prosecutor's Office has raised to final conclusions in which it requested three years in prison for reckless homicide for the boyfriend of Ana Buza, the 19-year-old girl who died while traveling with him on the A-4 highway in Seville, and has even raised as an alternative the absence of a crime and therefore the not guilty of the accused.
The presentation of conclusions and reports from the parties mark the final stretch of the trial for this death, which occurred in September 2019 in Carmona and which is tried by a popular jury in the Seville Court, which sees Rafael in the dock, for which the private accusation carried out by the victim's family requests 20 years in prison for murder.
"Ana was not run over," the prosecutor in the case has firmly stated, who - despite maintaining the crime of reckless homicide in her final conclusions - has actually focused her extensive final report on defending the proposed alternative that would lead to the defendant not being guilty.
"We cannot know exactly what happened in the vehicle," acknowledged the representative of the Public Ministry, who has justified her alternative position regarding Rafael's not guilt in that "the accident has not been proven," nor that his girlfriend's death was due to his "reckless driving" for traveling at 117 kilometers per hour in a section limited to 80.
The prosecutor has also said that the "private" expert reports presented by the private prosecution are not "coherent" and that the outrage defended by that party is due to a "strange hypothesis" that, in her opinion, "seems more like a horror movie script than reality."
For the Prosecutor's Office, maintaining the thesis of the private accusation about intentional abuse is "imaginative and biased", and has recalled that in this case there was no history of sexist violence, taking into account that the possibility that Rafael was jealous or controlling "does not make him the criminal, nor does it prove that he killed her."
"If you are a criminal because you are jealous, the jail would be full of people," said the prosecutor, who considered the testimony of the accused to be "sincere", who stated this Tuesday that his partner "jumped" from the vehicle, from which he saw the young woman fall after noticing "a gasp of air", and that he acknowledged a "feeling of guilt" for not having been able to catch her in time.
The representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office has pointed out that it is "very easy" to side with the victim, but has also asked the jury to "not be carried away by emotions or external public opinion" and to put themselves in Rafael's place.
Contrary to what was maintained by the Prosecutor's Office and the defense, the lawyer representing Ana Buza's family has insisted that the young woman was run over and that there is evidence to prove this.
"Ana could not open the door to get out of the moving vehicle, I cannot jump out, it is against the laws of physics. It is not interpretation or subjectivity, it is science," stressed the lawyer, who also rules out possible suicidal intentions of the young woman, despite the notes she had in personal diaries.
The trial for the death of Ana Buza has focused its sessions on determining whether what happened was a possible crime with sexist motivation as the young woman's family maintains, an accident resulting in death as the Prosecutor's Office has maintained - although this Friday it has proposed another alternative - or a suicide as the defense argues.
Although the initial proceedings classified the incident as a traffic accident or a voluntary decision by the victim, the persistence of the family allowed the reopening of the case to prosecute his then partner, who is currently 32 years old.
