Two Coruña divers with extensive experience in the rescue of submerged people, one of them who participated in the rescue of the body of Diana Quer, found on Friday that, before she died, and due to the state of stiffness of the body, the young woman from Pozuelo de Alarcón had to suffer "a shock or a very big panic situation."

Both specialists from the water rescue group of the Coruña firefighters indicated that Diana's body had a "completely unnatural" posture, very rigid and with slightly open legs, which is only justified if the young woman died "after a situation of great shock , something awful. "

To make that statement they rely on their rescue experience and the professional training they receive. "I have seen many bodies with stiffness from panic," said one of them, who explained that a corpse is only in that situation like the one they saw in Diana's body "after a situation of blockage."

The two divers declared together in the fourth session of the trial against José Enrique Abuín Gey, El Chicle, for the illegal detention, sexual assault and murder of Diana Quer that is being held at the Provincial Court of A Coruña and, before the popular jury, They indicated, graphically, that the time between death and the location of the body, in normal situations, would have caused the body to be "in a fetal position", but not how it appeared.

The popular jury could see the image of how Diana's body appeared, at the bottom of a well of an abandoned ship in Asados ​​(Rianxo, A Coruña) weighed down by two cement blocks that weighed, in total, 18 kilos and 400 grams . That image, due to its sensitivity and hardness, was not shown to the media or the public attending the trial, which includes, for the third consecutive day, the sister and father of the victim, Diana and Juan Carlos Quer . Despite not seeing the picture, Valeria was very affected at that time and hugged her father.

Just before those divers declared another diving specialist who participated in the simulation of the submergence of the body of Diana Quer that the Civil Guard conducted in Cartagena, Murcia. The girl, of a complexion and height similar to the young victim, immersed herself pretending to be her in order to recreate how the sinking of the corpse was. In addition, that reconstruction was envisioned.

The diver contradicted one of the claims of the crime version provided by EL Chewing gum. Abuín Gey explained that he killed Diana Quer by involuntary strangulation in A Pobra do Caramiñal and, already deceased, put her in her car, took her to the ship and threw her into the well. When he threw it into the water, it floated, so he chose to take two blocks of cement and a cable and ballast the body, but he still floated anyway.

Faced with these statements, the diver, who declared by videoconference and acknowledged that she remembers everything "perfectly and with horror," explained that every body, his or any other, weighed down with two blocks like the ones Diana's body had "plunges clearly and without a doubt. " According to his testimony, it doesn't matter if the blocks are put together or separately, "I would never stay afloat with those blocks with that weight."

The two submergence drills were carried out in a tank recreating all the characteristics of the well in which Diana's body and the body of the girl remained 497 days, but the diver wore a wetsuit and, to compensate for the resistance of that type of material to submerge, a belt with two ballasts of one kilo. It would have been impossible to simulate it in another way without the woman dying to submerge.

Recall concentration

Diana Quer's family has convened on Saturday, November 16, at 12 noon, a rally in the Plaza del Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela in which a minute of silence will be kept in memory of Diana and "of so many other young women killed ".

Juan Carlos and Diana Quer will attend this concentration, in the search for the objective "so that it is not repeated".

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