2023-09-08 15:16:00
After La Casa de Papel, Úrsula Corberó plays the lead role in Netflix’s latest sulphurous thriller. This is inspired by a real news item, better known under the name “Crimen de la Guardia Urbana”.
It is not uncommon for news items to inspire streaming platforms for the production of their programs. “Devoured by flames” is the latest. This Spanish mini-series has been broadcast on Netflix since September 8, 2023. It is the screen adaptation of a recent news item, better known under the name of “Crimen de la Guardia Urbana” (which can be literally translated as “municipal police crime”) which occurred in Catalonia in 2017.
In the series Netflix, Úrsula Corberó (known for playing Tokyo in “La Casa de Papel”) plays one of the main protagonists of this case, Rosa Peral. On May 4, 2017, the charred body of Barcelona municipal police officer Pedro Rodriguez was found in a car near the Foix reserve, Catalonia. His partner Rosa Peral, as well as his lover Albert López (played by Quim Gutiérrez in the series), are both accused of having killed Rodriguez on May 1, 2017, before hiding his body in the trunk of his car and burn.
The two accused sentenced
The trial of Rosa Peral and Albert López took place on February 3, 2020. The first accused her lover of having killed Rodriguez out of jealousy, López accused his companion of having killed the victim when the latter tried to attack him. Finally, for the prosecution, it was a premeditated murder. A few weeks after the trial opened, Peral and López were found guilty of the murder and were sentenced to 25 and 20 years in prison, respectively. Peral would have received an additional five years because she was found guilty of the murder of her partner, even though Lopez had no alleged “kinship” link with the victim. The investigation is freely reinterpreted by Netflix in the mini-series “Devoured by Flames”, currently available on Netflix.
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