HateLuisgé Martín’s book where the writer draws a profile of José Breton, who in 2011 killed his children in a case of vicaria violence, will not be published by Anagrama. “The anagram editorial informs of the extinction of the editing contract for the publication and distribution of Hate. After the completion of the contractual relationship, all the rights of the work, given in its day to the publishing house, are once again owned by the author, ”said the seal in a statement published Wednesday.
The publishing house, which in principle had the publication on March 26, postponed it indefinitely on the 21st, following the controversy and the different instances filed by the mother and the Prosecutor’s Office before the Justice. In a statement issued that same day, Anagrama assured “that both the author and the publisher are entitled to publish this work”, although he pointed out that he would wait for “to what the judicial resolutions indicate.” In the end it has not been so. “After the subsequent judicial denial, on two occasions, of the request for precautionary measures of the Prosecutor’s Office that requested that stoppage, the editorial voluntarily maintained the suspension of the distribution of the work, which now confirms that it is final,” they explain in today’s statement.
The editorial explains its decision in the belief that “in a democratic society, there must be a balance between creative freedom as a fundamental right and other moral principles. Therefore, it considers that the works that are inspired by real facts require a double dose of respect and sensitivity.” From Martín’s literary agency, Dos Passos, they point out that they do not want to make any declaration “beyond the editorial has decided not to publish the book, and before that the logical thing is that the rights reversed in the author, which now is once again the owner of his work.” To the question of whether the author or the agency have an idea of moving the book by other ways, such as other possible publishers interested in the publication, from the agency they point out that “for now there is no idea of moving it, we have not thought anything yet. This has just happened and we have to weigh all our options.” This newspaper has tried to contact the writer again, who has been silent for days.
The work has the testimony of José Breton, the murderer sentenced to 40 years in jail for killing in 2011 his children, Ruth and José, six and two. He also speaks of the life of Ruth Ortiz, the mother of the children, who had requested the paralysis of the publication for illegitimate interference of the right to honor, intimacy and the image of the deceased minors. Hate Follow a double aspect: on the one hand, draw a profile of the murderer and rebuild the crime, and on the other it narrates the relationship established between the writer and the criminal. Martín crossed with Breton for several years about 60 cards and phone calls, and came to visit the prison of Herrera de la Mancha.
A long process and by several ways
Until now, the last step of the legal battle had occurred on the 11th, when the Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office asked the judge to order Anagram to send the book about José Bretón to review it. It was the last stage of a judicial battle that began on March 19, when Ruth Ortiz denounced the publication of the book before justice and asked the publishing house not to be published. A day later, the Ortiz request added the Minors Prosecutor’s Office, which warned about the possible violation of children’s right to honor. On March 24, a Barcelona Court rejected suspend the publication of the book, but the Minors Prosecutor’s Office of Barcelona appealed that decision a day later. March 27, Anagrama announced that it suspended “indefinitely” the distribution of the work. The Barcelona Hearing resolved the appeal of the Prosecutor’s Office and endorsed the publication of Hate Last Wednesday 9, but Anagram was ratified in his decision to freeze the sale. Until now, with the definitive announcement of non -publication.
The one of the publication or not of the book is not the only judicial route propitiated by Hate. Ruth Ortiz denounced José Bretón on March 25 for a possible breach of conviction and for a new crime of psychological abuse. The sentence that condemned him for the murder of his children included the prohibition of approach to Ortiz less than a kilometer and the prohibition “of communication by any means, for 21 years for each crime of murder.” That prohibition of communication is what Ortiz considers that he broke with the book. In addition, the Prosecutor’s Office of Córdoba requested on March 26 to the Audience of Córdoba that would value initiate legal actions. What the Public Ministry defends is that the news and interviews published about the book attempt against the right to privacy of minors and their mother.
Contradictory communications
This anagram step is in the opposite direction to its first statement, issued on March 21. That day, the publishing house indicated that the Constitution “recognizes the fundamental right to literary creation.” “We reaffirm our commitment to editorial responsibility and freedom of expression, knowing that both must live together. In this sense, we understand that literature can and should address these issues without neglecting the complexity they represent, as Luisgé does in Hate”They explained in that statement.
That same day the writer, in which he was his last public statement, launched his own statement, in which he clarified that his intention had always been to “inquire about hate, about the brutality of human nature, about cruelty, about the social structures that support that endless violence.” Martín argued that the book, in reality, “takes voice to Breton, denies his explanation of the facts, confronts him with his contradictions (…), serves to show the labyrinths of the infamy and the vileness of a murderer.” And it ended: “It deserves a reflection that a book like Hatethat few people have yet read, awaken the public hatred that has aroused among those who have not read it. ”Apparently there will be no more people who read it. At least, under the anagram seal.