The discovery of the body of a man inside a charred car in an area near the Foix reservoir gave rise to a investigation that was discovered with a love triangle in which three agents of the Urban Guard were involved, one of them was the victim and the other two the perpetrators of the crime. Hence, the case that was uncovered in 2017 was known as the crime of the Urban Guard. Now Netflix premieres on September 8 the fictional series ‘The body on fire’ that recreates the real case.
The platform has published a clip from the series that accompanies this news and in which you can see the first meeting of Rosa Peral and Pedro Rodríguez. The scene shows what seems to be the end of a party night in which they both chat while he eats some churros before going home because he, he tells her, he has a seven-month-old son. The characters are in a fairground and in the background sounds the significant bolero by Olga Guillot ‘Soy lo prohibido’. After introducing themselves and making small talk, they say goodbye. we review who is who and the main details of the case.
Úrsula Corberó is Rosa Peral
The actress of ‘The Money Heist’ He takes a turn in his career with this starring role in the ‘true crime’ genre series that recreates a real case. Úrsula Corberó gets into the skin of Rosa Peral, partner of the victim Pedro Rodríguez and lover of the also agent of the Urban Police Albert López. Following an investigation that revealed toxic relationships, deceit and violence, Peral was charged and later sentenced to 25 years in prison for Pedro’s murder. Peral was the mother of two daughters, the result of her short marriage with her boyfriend from her youth, Rubén, who ended up discovering that she was being unfaithful to him with Albert. Before the crime, the agent had denounced a superior of hers for spreading a sexual image in which she performed fellatio, a scandal within the body known as the revenge porn case.
Quim Gutierrez is Albert Lopez
The actor of numerous films and the series the neighbor is another of the protagonists of ‘The body on fire’. He plays 39-year-old Albert López and also an agent of the Urban Police, accused along with his lover of perpetrating the murder of her partner, Pedro Rodríguez. They were patrol companions and had a relationship even before Rosa married her boyfriend Rubén de ella. After becoming a suspect in the murder of Pedro after the discovery of the body, both accused each other and López maintained that Peral had murdered Pedro because he assaulted her and that he asked her for help to dispose of the body. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail.
José Manuel Poga is Pedro Rodríguez
José Manuel Poga, who recently starred in the Disney+ series ‘You would too’ and whom you have also seen in ‘little faith’ from Movistar Plus+ now gets into the skin of the victim of the Urban Police case, Pedro Rodríguez. After separating from her partner, also a partner in the force, with whom he had a son, he began a relationship with Rosa Peral, who was also in a complicated divorce process, fighting to keep custody of her daughters. At the time of the crime, the victim was suspended from employment and salary for the attack on a motorist on the Rabassada highway. His body appeared in the trunk of his own car that had been burned in the Foix Swamp and when the investigators asked Rosa about him, she said that she had not seen him for days because they had argued and he had left.
