The Calvary of Itziar, a year after the parricide in Castell: "I am a mother without daughters" - The Province
On September 25, 2018 Castelló woke up in dismay. The capital of La Plana dawned with the news of the double parricide perpetrated by Ricardo Carrascosa, who after killing his six and two-year-old daughters, Nerea and Martina, took his own life by rushing down the balcony of his house on Rio Adra Street in Castelló.
Just one year after the tragedy, Itziar Prats has confessed what his status is in an interview granted to El País in which he defines himself as "a mother without daughters. From one day to another they took away what I loved most. I denounced and asked help, but their father killed them. They were six and two years old. My life changed abruptly just a year ago. "
"I moved as fast as I could"
The parricide had been denounced by the girls' mother for psychological abuse and threats in February 2018. He was arrested, but the procedure was filed at the request of the prosecutor and the victim. The police test carried out on the victim did not detect the seriousness of the events, although the woman feared for her safety and that of her daughters because he had already threatened them with death. "My life is now another, of course. When everything happened I moved as fast as I could. All my idea was to empty the house, leave Castellón where I couldn't stay another minute. It was like an automaton. I came to Madrid, to my house and my usual room. At the beginning, it was as if I had not formed a family. I was again a teenager living with her parents, as if I had not had daughters, as if this had not existed. Everything seemed very confusing, "acknowledges Itziar in the aforementioned interview.
In a situation as dramatic as Itziar had to suffer, it was hard to get to the idea that her daughters were gone: "You wake up in the morning, you dress them, prepare breakfast, run to school. Then work , make food, all € And suddenly, one day, instead, the police wake you up saying that you have to go identify someone who they think is your husband. And besides him they are my daughters. I have to lift anyone, I don't have to take anyone to school. Nobody demands anything from me. It's the opposite. " Martina and Nerea's mother adds that at that time she "was no longer in the world. I was not aware of anything. I could not understand it. And I expected that at any moment my daughters would enter through the door ...".
