Ruth Ortiz, Ruth and José’s mother, killed by her father, José Breton, in 2011 when they were six and two years old, has asked the justice to paralyze the publication of the book that draws a profile of the murderer and in which Breton admits for the first time publicly that she killed the children. The work, entitled Hate And signed by Luisgé Martín (Madrid, 63 years old), it is edited by Anagrama and has not yet gone to the market. Ortiz has denounced that publication before the Provincial Court and the Prosecutor’s Office of Córdoba for illegitimate interference of the right to privacy and the image of the deceased minors, according to the documents to which the country has had access.
Ortiz’s lawyer has also claimed Burofax to the Anagrama publishing house that stops the publication of the volume. The seal, which had the exit to the bookstores on March 26, has confirmed this newspaper on Wednesday that it has received the requirement and has decided to paralyze the distribution of Hate while consulting the case with its legal services.
In his complaint, Ortiz explains that he has known by the media details of the book, both the correspondence between Breton and the writer and the prepublication of an extract of the work. In her writing, she points out that the dissemination of the work has generated a “massive transmission and publication of data and information that affects her children, herself and her family.” “These facts are causing tremendous pain and new psychological damage in my principal,” said his lawyer in the letter sent to the Provincial Court, “which is attending horror how the life and murder of their two young children is publicly exposed in all media with details, comments and expressions that do not even appear in the sentence, plagued by terrible statements.”
“Apparently, it contains data, letters and references that affect the intimacy of minors,” he includes the section of crime victims of the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Córdoba in his brief response to the request of women. His lawyer has presented two writings at the Hearing and at the Prosecutor’s Office on March 17. The Public Ministry responded a day later with a decree in which, “warned of the illegality of the publication”, he urges him to take legal actions and communicates that he will transfer the file to the Prosecutor’s Office of Barcelona, a city where the publisher is based. Ortiz has declined to make statements to this newspaper.
In her letter, Ortiz’s lawyer collects the news of the publication of the book released by dozens of media last week. And he adds: “This part understands that there has been a violation of my principal rights, her children and her family, causing enormous pain and psychological damage (…) since she mentions her continuously, naming her, highlighting her hatred, making him public, criticizing the mother, and even justifying the murder.” “These facts also suppose the repeated exercise of vicar violence, perpetuating the damage to the surviving victim as the mother of the direct victims, continuing with a torture to my principal when they know and hear details that I did not know about the agony of their children, how the murderer prepared everything, how his hatred and resentment formed a terrible fact in the mind of the murderer. And terribly anguished, since from this moment speculation, debates in the networks (…), whatsapps and calls from journalists are continuous (…) have already begun.
Hate It consists of a double proposal: on the one hand, the book reconstructs the crime, the previous days and the police investigation, and draws a sowing of Breton through the testimony of the murderer himself. On the other, it tells the story of personal approach between the writer and the inmate, which over several years cross about 60 cards, telephone calls and have face -to -face conversations. In one of the visits that Martín makes to the Herrera de la Mancha penitentiary center (Ciudad Real) to meet with Breton, he confesses his guilt for the first time: “The man who killed Ruth and José wants to apologize for the damage he did,” he reads in the book. Privately, Breton had already admitted his crime in 2016, within the framework of a restorative justice workshop.
To questions from El País about Ortiz’s request, the writer Luisgé Martín replies: “I understand everything Ruth does. The book had no intention of hurting, but to get into the murderer’s mind. Other documentaries remove the case more than my book.” In any case, the writer maintains his desire that Hate be published. In a chapter of the work, Martín explains why he did not contact the mother of the children to write it: “When I started the project of this book (…) I made the decision – perhaps wrong – of speaking only with José Bretón. My purpose was daring to mortify with inquiries, ”he writes in Hate.
Breton murdered his children on October 8, 2011 in Córdoba, and then calcined his bodies, leaving few identifiable remains of minors. He 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 those who will serve 25 of effective conviction. It is planned to leave prison in 2036.