Pink Pearsentenced to 25 years in prison with her lover, for the murder of her companion, saw her trial admitted for investigation. 30 million euros against the Netflix platform. The civil lawsuit is against Netflix and the producer of the series The body on fireArcadia Motion Pictures, for an alleged violation of the right to honor.
The million dollar lawsuit is based on the calculation that until May this year, 26.6 million hours of the series had been watched worldwide, so Rosa Peral is demanding 1 euro for every hour played for her daughter and 10 cents for herself. TREE violation of one’s right to honor given the negative image the series projects of her as a mother. He also requests a correction to clarify that the series does not conform to the reality of what happened and especially to the role of his daughter.
Before the series aired in August 2023, Peral requested to watch it, claiming to have been unaware of its production. However, on September 4, Netflix released the promotional video for the series in which the character representing Rosa Peral’s daughter appears in situations that are not real according to the complainant and suggesting to the viewer that the minor’s statement at the trial, something that didn’t happen, it was evidence to convict his mother.
The Vilanova i la Geltrú court rejected Rosa Peral’s request to suspend the premiere of the series for not having submitted the required deposit to her lawyer. the former policeman He appealed, alleging he had no money for bail because he is in jail and also must pay restitution for the crime.
The Court ended up supporting Rosa Peral in her appeal and now the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 1 of Vilanova i la Geltrú has accepted the lawsuit against Netflix and Arcadia. Then, the parties must present their reasons to the judge and the judge will decide whether the trial continues.
The true crime story
The Horrible True Story That Inspired The body on fire, the spanish series Netflixgoes far beyond fiction. Journalists described the affair as curban guard rhymea true story sprinkled with lies, sex And armwithin the city police Barcelonawhich ended with the assassination of a police officer and 25 years in prison for each of the police killers.
The affair began with the discovery of corpse of Pedro Rodríguez, police officer of the Barcelona Urban Police, in the trunk of a car set on fire in the swamp of Foix on May 4, 2017. A few months later, Mossos d’Esquadra investigators discovered the love triangle between the victim and her partner. Pink Pear and her lover, Albert López. All three, agents of the same police force.
It took the Mossos a little over a week to arrest police officers Rosa and Albert. Their cell phones betrayed them: Rosa and Albert spoke on the phone, with a prepaid card, the night of the crime, and since then they slept together in the house where Rosa and her two daughters lived with the victim, until what the The victim’s body was discovered.
The girls were the only witnesses to the crime and what they saw they told Rosa’s ex-husband’s current partner and she told him. the police. The minors, again according to Rosa’s ex-husband’s wife, saw their mother arguing with Pedro, then saw Rosa taking him down the stairs half-drugged. Finally, they saw their mother covered in blood. An autopsy of the remains indicated he had likely been strangled, and investigators suspect he had been poisoned beforehand.
Rosa and Albert, recounts the sentence of curban guard rhymethey put Pedro’s body in the trunk of their own car and burned it next to the Foix reservoir after attempting to dismember the body. A neighbor heard a chainsaw and the Mossos found blood stains on a recently painted wall and in the basement of the house. The living room sofa is missing. The investigation revealed that after the crime, the couple searched on the Internet for how to get rid of the furniture.
THE Mossos d’Esquadra They discovered this and more, arresting Rosa and Albert ten days after the crime. Both they admitted their participation in the events and the trip to the swamp to burn Pedro’s body, but each accused the other of the crime without confessing the truth about Pedro’s death. Both were eventually convicted.
The two lovers never explained each other the motive of the crime. Researchers have several hypotheses. The main thing is that Pedro had discovered the umpteenth infidelity of Rosa with Albert, that night, he was going to abandon her and they argued. The other hypothesis boils down to the fact that Albert, alone or in agreement with Rosa, wanted to kill Pedro to live with the woman.
The third hypothesis concerning urban guard crime It’s even more horrible. The Mossos do not exclude that Pedro threatened Rosa to reveal the secret that the woman shared with Albert. They are considering the possibility that both, while patrolling together in 2014 in Montjuïcthey pushed a mantero who died after falling down an embankment. A case, the latter, which is still under investigation.
