“The day has come. I am very nervous, but at the same time I have a lot of strength. I will leave all this in the hands of Justice. I am going to believe in the popular jury». This is how Marisol Burón, Marta Calvo’s mother, expressed herself upon her arrival at the trial that begins this Monday at the Valencia Court against Jorge Ignacio Palma, accused of murdering three women and sexually abusing eight others. “I have endured two and a half years and I am going to endure until the end,” she has asserted.
“I hope that justice is done to my daughter and to all of them. I will be here because I am the voice of all of them. I ask my daughter for a lot of strength, and I know that she is giving it to me, to reach the end strong and that, please, the popular jury puts itself in my shoes, as a mother, who has taken my daughter from me very unfairly, ” Buron has pointed out.
The body of the 25-year-old, dismembered and distributed in different containers around Palma, as he himself confessed to the Civil Guard after surrendering in December 2019, a month after the disappearance, has not yet appeared.
“Hopefully,” the parent stressed, reveal the place where Marta is. “I’m hopeful that he can break down.” “What I am clear about is that he cannot live for life like this,” she added.
Burón, who will appear as a witness on the 26th, assures that he wants to face him face to face: «I am not afraid of him, nor angry, nor disgusted. Actually, I don’t remember him, I remember my daughter. He is indifferent to me. I am not the one to tell him the penalty that may fall on him ». However, he will fight for the reviewable permanent prison to be applied, because “in Spain there is no harsher sentence and these people, unfortunately, cannot be reinserted. It does not fit in this society, because I would do it again.
Calvo’s mother is willing to carry out, with the support of some parliamentary groups, the modification of article 140 of the Penal Code so that this penalty is contemplated in the absence of the victim’s body. At the moment, the process is in the allegations phase, waiting for it to be taken to the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies. The goal: that there be “no more” and her daughter be “the last”.
«Parents cannot live in this sorrow, that we do not know where we have our children. It is very hard to close the door of a house and not know where you have your daughter. Not giving him a rest in peace », she lamented.
For his part, the lawyer for eight of the victims, Juan Carlos Navarro, explained upon his arrival at the City of Justice in Valencia that they will request the same sentence for the “murder” of the other two deceased women “in addition to other crimes , such as sexual abuse or crime against public health. For the rest, who face the “nervous” oral hearing, “we ask for attempted murder, which can then be murder or attempted murder.” “It was a deceitful relationship and it will be seen during the trial,” Navarro stressed.
A “long” trial against a “feminicide” that will last for five weeks and in which “more than a hundred people” will testify to recount the fifteen months of horror, between the summer of 2018 and November 2019, in which Jorge Palma allegedly introduced cocaine into the genitals of a dozen women without their consent, in a sexual practice known as “white party”.
The first of the 21 scheduled sessions, which started shortly after ten in the morning, will be used to select the nine anonymous citizens who will make up the popular jury and to read the writings of the parties.
Victims, witnesses and experts in each of the eleven cases will pass through the judicial headquarters each day, in chronological order. More or fewer sessions will be assigned, depending on their complexity. There will be six, for example, those destined to unravel what happened to Marta Calvo.
The accused, 38 years old and in provisional prison, will not testify until the end of all of them, in an appearance scheduled for July 6. The Prosecutor’s Office asks for a sentence of 130 years in prison for him. The jury is expected to retire to deliberate on July 13.
