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HEARTLESS

Transcription of the interrogation of Miss Mathilde Álvarez Koch, conducted by Detectives Jaime Almánzar Soto and Reynolds Rivera Sagardí.

JAS: Good morning, Miss.

MAK: [uncontrollable sobs]

RRS: Are you all right?

MAK: [unintelligible response]

JAS: Please, Miss Álvarez. . . . We know how traumatic this has been for you.

MAK: [disconsolate weeping]

RRS: Please, Miss, calm down. My colleague and I need to ask you some questions. Do you understand? You need to calm down.

MAK: Yes. . . . [hiccuping] Yes.

JAS: Are you feeling better?

MAK: Yes.

JAS: Would you like a coffee? Iced tea?

MAK: Coffee . . . Coffee, if you’d be so kind.

JAS: Of course. How do you take it?

MAK: What?

JAS: How many spoons of sugar?

MAK: I don’t want anything. . . .

[silence]

JAS: Very well, Miss. As we indicated over the phone, you are here to offer your testimony regarding the events that occurred on the 24th of March 2009 on the corner of Arzobispo Márquez and Paseo de los Próceres, where Mister . . .

MAK: [disconsolate weeping resumes]

JAS: Miss . . . Miss . . .

RRS: This is impossible.

[sighing]

JAS: I’ll call a cab.

[The interview ends.]