The provinvial prosecution of Barcelona has asked a judge to order the Anagrama publishing house to deliver the book Hate. In this work, written by Luisgé Martín, José Breton tells how he killed his children, killed in Córdoba in 2011, and offers details of his family and a couple with Ruth Ortiz, mother of the killed minors, who requested that the book not be published. The Public Ministry presented on Thursday the request for preliminary proceedings to achieve the book “in order to analyze and study its content”, according to a note from the prosecution made public today. It is the previous step to decide whether to file a civil demand for violation of the right to honor of minors and their mother.
This new passage of the prosecutor arrives after Wednesday 9, the Provincial Court of Barcelona endorsed the publication of the book. Even so, the publisher maintains, according to a statement that launched that afternoon, the suspension of the work, of which only part of the content by the media has been known. The decision of the hearing came after weeks of judicial battle after Ruth Ortiz, the mother of the minors, requested the paralysis of her publication for illegitimate interference of the right to honor, intimacy and the image of the deceased minors. Ortiz’s legal representation has declined to comment on this new step of the Prosecutor’s Office.
March 19 Ruth Ortiz denounced the publication of the book and the publishing house suspended the distribution of the book temporarily. A day later, the Ortiz petition added the Minors Prosecutor’s Office, which warns 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 On Wednesday, but Anagrama was ratified in his decision to freeze the sale for now.
Parallel routes
Hate It has resulted in the opening of several judicial routes. Ruth Ortiz denounced José Breton on March 25 for a possible breach of condemnation and for a new psychological batter. 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 with them by any means, for 21 years for each crime of murder.” This communication prohibition is what Ortiz considers that he broke up with Hate. In addition, the Prosecutor’s Office of Córdoba requested on March 26 to the Audience of Córdoba that would value initiate legal actions. The Public Ministry defends that the news and interviews published about the book attempt against the right to privacy of minors and their mother.
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. Breton was sentenced in July 2013 by the Provincial Court as the author of two crimes of murder to the sentences of 20 years in prison for each child, 40 years in total, of which he will comply 25. He is expected to be released in 2036.