DIANA Quer's sister Valeria has organised a protest march via Twitter, seeking to 'fill the streets' calling for the government not to axe permanent prison sentences.
Valeria, now 18 – the same age as her sister was when she disappeared in the early hours of August 22, 2016 walking back to the family holiday home from the fiestas in A Pobra do Caramiñal (A Coruña province, Galicia) – has actively campaigned for murderers and rapists, especially child killers, to be held in prison indefinitely.
The right-wing PP government introduced life sentences subject to review – meaning a prisoner who is completely rehabilitated could be released, but those who are not will remain behind bars unless and until they are – about three years ago, but its left-wing rivals, the PSOE and Podemos, want to overturn it.
Starting at 11.00 on Saturday, April 21 in the central Puerta del Sol square, Valeria's march will proceed as far as the Bank of Spain building and the Cibeles fountain before doubling back along the Paseo del Prado as far as the Neptune fountain behind the central government Parliament building.
It is expected to finish at around 15.00.
“Because from one day to the next, my sister was murdered, and what happened to me could happen to anyone! Let's fight for a safer society – I need you all!” Valeria, from Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), wrote on her Twitter page.
“I want us all to fill the streets and go out and call for justice for my sister and for all those children who have been murdered! I need your support – we're going to do it between us!” she continued.
After 16 agonising months in which Valeria and her mother, Diana Cristina López-Pinel, never lost hope that the young woman was either being held hostage or had run away from home, Diana Quer's body was found down a well in an industrial estate in Rianxo, 15 kilometres from where she disappeared, on New Year's Eve 2017.
Her father Juan Carlos Quer has also been campaigning for permanent reviewable prison to be kept – especially after his daughter's killer, José Enrique Abuín Gey, 42, bragged that he would be 'out again within seven years'.
Diana Quer's mother has kept a relatively low media profile, but completely backs the quest led by her ex-husband Juan Carlos and her younger daughter, who have teamed up with parents whose children have also been murdered.
Marta del Castillo Casanueva was 17 when, in January 2009, her ex-boyfriend Miguel Carcaño, then 20, killed her and has since refused to reveal the whereabouts of her body.
Her parents and grandparents, especially her father Antonio del Castillo, are working closely with the Quer family in their fight.
They are joined by Ruth Ortiz, from Huelva, whose children Ruth, six and José, two were drugged unconscious and literally incinerated by their father, José Bretón, at his home in Córdoba; also by Rocío Viéitez whose daughters Amaia and Candela were murdered by their father David Oubel in Galicia, and by José Luis Cortés, whose five-year-old daughter Mari Luz was murdered by a paedophile in Andalucía.
The group has extended its support to Ángel Cruz and his ex-wife Patricia Ramírez whose eight-year-old son Gabriel was murdered on February 27 by Cruz's now-ex girlfriend Ana Julia Quezada.
Photograph shows Diana Quer (left) and Valeria (right). Valeria tweeted this picture alongside that of eight-year-old Gabriel Cruz Ramírez when the boy's body was found on March 11, with the message: “My sister will look after you well.” (@QuerValeria)
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