Anagrama, the book editorial Hateby the writer Luisgé Martín, he has decided to suspend “indefinitely” the distribution of the work. This is stated in a statement published on Thursday, which states that the editorial “voluntarily remains in its decision to respect the request for the precautionary measures requested by the Prosecutor’s Office to paralyze the distribution of the work.” The book reconstructs the crime of José Breton, who in 2011 murdered his two children in a media crime that raised society about vicar violence. “Anogram considers that, in a democratic society, there must be a balance between creative freedom as a fundamental right and the protection of victims. The works that are inspired by real events, such as the case of HateThey require a double dose of responsibility and respect. Therefore, in an exercise of prudence and voluntarily, the publisher has decided to maintain the suspension of the distribution of the work indefinitely, ”reads the statement.
Anagrama also confirms that “the only author of the work is the writer and journalist Luisgé Martín” and denies that it has been carried out or will be made of any nature to Breton. “The publishing house expresses the absolute respect that Ruth Ortiz deserves and regrets the pain that the information disseminated on the publication and distribution of the book may have caused him,” he says in his statement.
Hate It is in the middle of a judicial battle: last week, Ruth Ortiz, the mother of the children, requested the paralysis of the publication for illegitimate interference of the right to honor, intimacy and the image of the deceased minors, and the Minors Prosecutor’s Office already requested last Thursday to temporarily suspend the publication of the book after the complaint presented by the mother. On Monday, the Court of First Instance number 39 of Barcelona rejected in a precautionary manner the publication of the book, and on Tuesday the Minors Prosecutor’s Office of Barcelona appealed before the Provincial Court of Barcelona the order of the Court.
It was planned that the specimens will arrive this Wednesday, March 26 to the bookstores, but there was no trace of them in which this newspaper visited in the center of Madrid. Nor in the websites of business where the book is not found or appears as “not available” or “exhausted.” Yesterday, from the first hour, the booksellers were ready for a question they seemed to wait. “Have Hate? Do you see? They come to ask for him. Poor of the mother. “Other booksellers were looking for curiosity between the newly arrived boxes:” Do you imagine we have it and we are the first? It touches a very sensitive issue. ”The controversy had reached them.
With the morning more entrance and the open bookstores for a few hours, the question intensified at the same time as the clientele. In one of the most popular, in a course of five minutes, two people called asking for him and two others came to look for the book. The answer: “It has not come out.” A few minutes later a television arrived to interview the owner of the place, while some other client asked “just out of curiosity.”
Hate It raises one Inquiry in the criminal’s mind, in his motivations and feelings, while reconstructing crime and tells the personal approach between the author and Breton. Luisgé Martín maintained with the murderer a telephone and epistolary relationship (some sixty cards), in addition to visiting him in prison. After Ruth Ortiz’s complaint, the author of the book defended himself in a statement: “Hate It does not give a voice to José Bretón: he removes it, denies his explanation of the facts, confronts him with his contradictions. The book, in my humble opinion, serves to show the labyrinths of the infamy and the vileness of a murderer. ”Anagram in a statement on Friday was protected by the right to literary creation, although he pointed out that they would wait for“ to which the judicial resolutions indicate ”.