Jonathan Andic knew the place to park the automobile and which path to take when, on the sunny morning of December 14, 2024, he drove his father, Isak Andic, to one of many numerous routes that cross Montserrat, a legendary mountain attributable to its distinctive silhouette and emblem of Catalan nationalism. They had agreed to take a brief tour on foot alongside the dust highway that results in the Benedictine monastery. They didn’t intend to finish the 9 kilometers of the itinerary as a result of the founding father of Mango had stayed later. But they’d issues to speak about. And Isak preferred that, carrying on conversations with family and friends whereas strolling, like a peripatetic thinker.
If Jonathan knew the terrain exactly, it’s as a result of, just a few days earlier than, he had been there, as he ended up admitting to the Mossos, in accordance with sources within the space. Because? Like many issues that need to do with the conduct of the eldest son throughout that day, of which an entire portrait can not but be drawn, this earlier go to invitations a studying or the other relying on the prism by means of which it’s seen. For an investigator it may be suspicious, a clue that helps the speculation of a deliberate murder. For the protection, which insists that it was an accident, Jonathan’s rationalization exculpates him greater than it incriminates him: he went along with his automobile to Collbató (40 kilometers from Barcelona) as a result of he needed to review the route, put together the tour.
On the primary anniversary, this Sunday, of the dying of the richest man in Catalonia on the age of 71, the open judicial investigation nonetheless can not make clear what occurred at midday on December 14. When father and son had barely superior ten minutes alongside the trail, the businessman fell from a top of virtually 100 meters and died because of the trauma attributable to the autumn. Did you slip and fall into the void at one of many few factors on the route that, within the occasion of a visit, result in a deadly consequence, because the path results in an embankment with out bushes to carry on to, and from which a highway might be seen, harmful and distant? Did Jonathan push him, because of an outburst or maybe as a part of a premeditated act?
The Mossos d’Esquadra, the Prosecutor’s Office and the choose investigating the case have been devoted to clearing up this thriller for a 12 months. The sources consulted admit that it’s going to not be straightforward to achieve a strong, definitive, categorical reply. And that fertile floor of doubt performs, with a view to a hypothetical trial, in Jonathan’s favor. There is, for now, no direct proof of a murder. There aren’t any cameras on the Montserrat mountain, nor a satellite tv for pc pointing to the scene of the tragedy; Nor has a customer appeared, a runner or a Sunday one who, that morning, took the identical path (fairly frequented) and have become a direct witness. But doubt additionally has its cross for Jonathan: these round him imagine that, even when the case towards him is closed, an aura of suspicion will persist, satisfied as they’re {that a} good a part of public opinion already considers him, it doesn’t matter what occurs, responsible of patricide.
From contradictions to cellular
What occurred on the dust highway solely the mountain and Jonathan know for certain. And given the majestic silence of Montserrat, the Mossos have analyzed the phrases of Jonathan, who has testified twice as a witness. The brokers thought of that the primary, hours after the autumn, was in a state of shock. Doubts arose along with his second, extra in depth go to and after having been suggested by a lawyer. The contradictions he incurred led him to discover new avenues. The Mossos didn’t rule out the accident, nevertheless it was now not the one speculation on the desk.
Since then, a small blended group of police from the Martorell investigation unit (the judicial get together to which Collbató belongs) and the Mossos headquarters, armored themselves to discover the rugged path of peripheral proof. They have collected proof that, collectively, invitations suspicion, ready for explanations that can assist them full the interpretation of the occasions.
The Mossos have regarded for some solutions in Mango: they requested what had occurred to the telephone that Jonathan was carrying on the day of the occasion. A couple of weeks after the autumn, the son ordered a brand new cell phone from the corporate, though it took him just a few months to select it up and activated it on March 26, the corporate confirmed. That is the telephone that, on September 9, the Mossos seized from the son after intercepting his Mercedes when he was leaving the Mango headquarters, in Palau-solità i Plegamans, and that they’re analyzing. Why this modification? According to Jonathan’s entourage, he simply needed the brand new iPhone mannequin, however forgot to select it up till it was misplaced or stolen on a visit overseas.
Added to a convoluted investigation based mostly on proof is the complexity of the profile of its protagonists. Isak Andic was one of many best fortunes in Spain, with a legacy to share, divorced and with a brand new accomplice, with whom he had been with for years: Estefanía Knuth. She was one of many first individuals Jonathan referred to as after his father’s fall, and she or he instantly went to the scene. In his police assertion, Knuth revealed that father and son had been carrying a fragile story from the previous: Isak left the administration of the corporate within the arms of Jonathan in 2014, however he needed to return a 12 months later to revive it. The succession didn’t work out, and left the skilled relationship between father and son affected. Furthermore, as soon as the need was opened – the final of a number of variations that the founding father of Mango had left in writing – Knuth was dissatisfied with the 5 million he bequeathed to him, and commenced a dispute with the heirs (the three kids equally) by which he claimed greater than 70.
Statement at sight
One 12 months after the dying of Isak Andic, the investigation within the arms of the investigating court docket quantity 5 of Martorell (Barcelona) is now reaching its remaining stage. The sources consulted agree that, after analyzing his cell phone, there isn’t any alternative however to listen to Jonathan formally as an investigator in court docket. In the one assertion on the case, the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) stated that there was a case declared secret, “residence” within the police, by which “procedurally”, to this point, “it has not been directed nor is it directed against any specific person.”
Once the Mossos full the report with the circumstantial proof they’ve collected, the choose will determine whether or not to file the case or transfer ahead and, finally, ship it to trial. To do that, you should first hearken to the opinion of the events: the Prosecutor’s Office and Jonathan’s protection. The crew that advises the son of the founding father of Mango is targeted on gathering supplies (evaluation of the terrain as a result of rain in earlier days, examine of the accidents that occurred in Montserrat) that reinforce the speculation of the accident and, due to this fact, assist to disprove the speculation of murder. Their purpose is for the case to be filed and never even go to trial.
The strain of Andic case It reaches all events. Mango lives pending reputational harm that might have an effect on the enterprise, one thing that has not occurred for now: led by Toni Ruiz, the style empire has overcome the primary 12 months with out its founder with nice solvency. The household, for its half, is experiencing the method with anguish however “united in adversity,” in accordance with sources round him: Jonathan’s sisters (Judith and Sarah) and Jonathan’s uncle (Nahman, co-founder of Mango) have proven him their unconditional assist and, above all, have instructed him that they imagine in his innocence.
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