“I want the book to be published.” This has expressed the writer Luisgé Martín (Madrid, 63 years), author of the book Hatein which he reproduces the crime of José Bretón, sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder of his two minor children in 2011, in the first interview granted after the decision of the Anagram Editorial to resign the publication of the work after the judicial lawsuit filed by Ruth Ortiz, his ex -partner and mother of the children. He answered the question of whether he has had conversations with other publishers or if he has thought about self -edifying, without specifying more details. “Anagrama has felt fear of social pressure. There is no direct censorship, because today it is not censored by decree, but with moral paternalism. But really what it does is censorship,” Martin told Xabier Fortes on Channel 24 of RTVE.
“And I want it to be published for two reasons,” Martín explained. “One is selfish, for the time dedicated to the work. But another because I believe that what has happened is very serious. That a book retires without having been read, by people who say things from the book without having read it … I think it is part of almost prefascist societies,” said the author. Asked if he thought about the mother of the children, Ruth Ortiz, and the possible damage that the book could cause him, Martín said yes: “I thought, of course, I reflect on that in the book. But Breton does not write in the book or take money; regardless of whether he would like to manipulate me, the book I write it, and the book does not propagate vicar violence; it is quite the opposite, the opposite is the opposite.
At first, the publisher, which in principle had the publication of Hate On March 26, he postponed it indefinitely on March 21, following the controversy and the different instances filed by the Mother and the Prosecutor’s Office before Justice. The Minors Prosecutor’s Office asked not to be distributed, but the Court of First Instance and the Barcelona Hearing approved the publication. “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 definitive,” the company explained in a statement on the 16th.
Do you understand, in any case, Ruth? Your pain and judicial actions? “From Ruth I understand everything. We all moved with her, with her courage and integrity,” Martin replied. “Clearly, I have done a bad thing: not having warned Ruth,” said the writer, asked if he regrets something. “Not in the elaboration of the text, but I would like her not to have learned by the press, and that I could have explained my intention, and show her that it is a book in which José Breton is portrayed as what it is.” “If there is something I would like,” he said, “is to be able to sit with Ruth and explain that almost everything that has been said about Hate They are uncertain things. ”The writer has also told that after the outbreak of the controversy and demand of the mother the lawyers in charge of the case forbidden to talk to her because she could be misunderstood.
Review and empathy
Asked about possible changes in the text with a view to his possible publication in the future, Martín has said that “Anagram’s lawyers talked about two phrases that do not affect the essence of the book, and that I will remove.” He also admitted the possibility of contextualizing what has happened: “I have started taking notes to write an essay about everything that happened.” And he talked about Breton himself: “There is something that should be ashamed in a program like this,” he ironized in RTVE, “but I have come to see him alone and abandoned. Not with closeness, empathy or friendship, but with compassion.” The murderer has also said that he believes “that he regrets, but not for the right moments. He still does not admit that it was a macho crime.”
“I have understood something shocking with this book, which is that Breton is a very vulgar person. Machista, narcissistic, maniac … like thousands of our neighbors,” he said. “It is a book that I think can alert women who think that monsters have horns and smell sulfur. No. sometimes they seem normal people.” Hate He has the testimony of José Bretón, the murderer sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing his children, Ruth and José, six and two years old. 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.