“I already knew she wasn't there… it's a mother's feeling”, she assures in an interview marked by pain, memory, and the struggle after the murder of her daughter
The years have passed, but there are absences that do not understand time. Life continues for almost everyone. But there are stories that never end. Stories that remain suspended in an instant. In a call that never arrived. In a dawn that changed everything.
Diana Quer's mother breaks her silence exclusively on ElConstitucional.es and does so from that place where time seems to have stopped. She speaks with serenity, but with an emotion that pierces every word. Because there are losses that are not told. They are lived.
Diana Quer disappeared on August 22 in A Pobra do Caramiñal, Galicia, while returning home after a party. It was a summer night like many others, an apparently normal dawn that did not portend anything extraordinary. But that would be the last time Diana was seen alive.
From that moment an endless wait began. For 497 days, her family lived between uncertainty and hope, while all of Spain followed every advance of the investigation. Until, more than a year later, the worst was confirmed: the young woman had been murdered by José Enrique Abuín alias “El Chicle”, a delinquent with a record who had already tried to kidnap another girl in the town of Boiro.
But before all that, before becoming a name known by all, at home Diana was simply Diani. That's what they called her in intimacy. That's how her mother remembers her, with the closeness of someone who continues to feel her presence every day.
The beginning was uncertainty. The wait that lengthens, the anguish that grows with the passing of hours and days. “You don't want to believe that days pass and he doesn't appear,” she explains. However, at some point, something changed. A premonition difficult to explain, an intuition that only those who feel it understand. “I already knew he wasn't there, call it a sixth sense if you want. It's a mother's feeling, it tells you it's something tremendous and you fear the worst.”
The confirmation arrived later, just the last one of the day of the year 2017 and with it a wound that, she assures, never closes. “They took Diani's dignity from her and then they murdered her, there cannot exist a worse end.”
From that moment on, life transforms. Nothing is ever the same again. “A wound like that never closes, they haven't prepared us for such a tragedy,” she explains, aware that the pain doesn't disappear, but changes with time. “The pain returns continuously. There were so many unfulfilled dreams…”.
However, in the midst of that void, memory becomes a refuge. The image of his daughter, her smile, her way of being. “You always keep that love that never dies. She are with us and will accompany us all our lives”. A bond that, he assures, remains present. “I feel very close to Diani and she will always be my great love”.
The passing of the years has also left space for a more serene reflection. Diana's mother recognizes that, with time, hatred loses strength and love gains ground. Her intention, she explains, has always been that the memory of her daughter does not remain in the crime, but in the person she was, in her goodness and in the mark she left.
A footprint that, furthermore, had consequences. “My daughter took an assassin off the street who was becoming a repeat offender and saved many lives.” An idea that gives meaning to the fight she has maintained since then, although the pain never disappears.
Today, years later, the memory remains intact. The absence too. But there is something that remains above all: love. Because, as he/she repeats during the conversation, there are bonds that do not break with time.
“Love never dies.”
