The exclusive of El matí of Catalunya Ràdio with the audio recordings of the call to 112 by Jonathan Andic was accompanied by the interpretation of Francisco Marco, a detective hired by the defense lawyers, who assured the radio that only an actor could feign that anguish: “No one who can premeditate a fall of that type then shows this desperation, which is openly natural. [...] It is materially impossible. No one who intends to simulate that scenario simulates it like this”. The detective tells us what we should think about what we see or hear.It is difficult to assume the public dissemination of these calls to the emergency service. On the other hand, however, television has long accustomed us to listening to recordings of this type in Carles Porta's Crims. True crime favors viewers' tolerance for these audios. While in a news report desperate recordings generate discomfort, morbid shows about real crimes serve as a moral alibi to enjoy them.On Monday at noon, the news reports echoed the most notable fragments of the call. On La 1's Telediario they described the tone of the deceased businessman's son as "desperate and sobbing", and specified that "the defense insists that the investigation tries to dehumanize Jonathan Andic because it does not take into account the trauma of the moment". In other words, the recording seeks the opposite: to humanize the accused.On Antena 3 noticias they explained, as context, that the call to emergency services had been made eight minutes after the fall, after contacting the father's wife. On Informativos Telecinco it caught attention that the news screen was filled with the Mango logo as an easy reference for the audience. They clarified that that recording was one of the main pieces of evidence the defense would use. But the most insidious thing was the way they illustrated the audio recordings. When the lament of “my father has fallen” was heard, they used images of Isak Andic's stumble months before he died. In the same way, when the recording was heard of Jonathan providing the location, they included a family photo in which father and son appeared smiling, taking a quiet summer stroll years before the founder of Mango fell down the ravine. At Telecinco, they also emphasized the expression Jonathan used to call his father: “Old mannnn!” In the Telenotícies migdia of TV3, beyond the context data, they clarified that “it is another chapter of the case in the media battle for the narrative that is being played out” and that the leaked fragments did not reflect Andic's contradictions. Journalistically, it is key to specify this. The audios cause an impact, but they contribute nothing beyond public speculation. It is a case that is being served to us in installments, and we must keep in mind the role the media play and the extent to which they are allowing themselves to be used by interested parties.

The Public Prosecutor's Office has opposed the appeal by which Jonathan Andic requested that the precautionary measures against him be withdrawn in the case in which he is being investigated for allegedly killing his father, Mango founder Isak Andic. In its response to the defense's appeal, the public ministry points out that there are indications in the case that "contradict" the eldest son's version of the family about "the method and circumstances" in which his father died.

The Prosecutor's Office has asked the Martorell judge investigating the death of Mango's founder, Isak Andic, to order a reconstruction of his fall. This means that the public ministry wants the businessman's son and sole suspect, Jonathan Andic, to return to the Collbató caves to clarify what happened, according to ACN. The Prosecutor's Office has requested several investigative measures, now that the investigation is no longer secret, among which the return to Collbató with the suspect present stands out.

One of the turning points in the investigation into the death of Isak Andic, founder of Mango, was when the Mossos d'Esquadra accessed the content of his mobile phone. There they found several conversations in derogatory terms with his son, Jonathan Andic, the person with whom he was on a route through the Collbató caves on the day he died. The judge in the case speaks of messages "of hatred, of resentment, of ideas of death". As the ARA reported a few months ago, these messages were part of a kind of therapy that the Andic's son was undergoing with a coach and which the Mossos used to focus even more on the firstborn. Now, the judge is asking to delve even deeper into the figure of this therapist.

On Saturday, Col·lapse interviewed Francisco Marco, director of the detective agency Método 3, to explain the defense's version of Jonathan Andic. He was, therefore, a biased guest, who was hired by the lawyer Sebastián de Juan.With his usual indifference, Jordi González said he doubted whether to call it homicide, accident or murder. “Accident,” Marco replied, emphatically. And González heeded him: “Accident,” the presenter repeated. How easy it is to impose a narrative.The detective spoke about the video of Isak Andic's fall months before his death. He explained, mysteriously, that "an important person from this city" had put them on the trail. Before showing the video to the audience, he described it to condition the viewer: "Isak Andic, just and plop! Falls". The onomatopoeia plop is significant, like an acorn falling from a tree. And he added: "But the important thing about this video is that he doesn't put his hands out". But in the images, it is seen that Andic puts his hand on the step of the stairs to avoid hitting his head. Once again, the detective was already telling us what we should see and think. He was constructing the narrative. Marco referred to Isak Andic as "a gentleman who has a knee condition" and who suffers from "a natural, uncontrolled loss of his legs". He also defined the fall as a "loss of verticality". This supposedly technical use of language was not accidental. It contrasted with the colloquial language he used to describe the work of the Mossos. He spoke of the "fables" they invent, the "fabrication" of evidence, and even used sarcasm to discredit them: "“One of the magnificent pieces of evidence that this policeman says...", he commented with contempt.When Jordi González asked him about the origin of that security video, Marco said: “The gentleman, poor me, who saves Isak Andic from getting into a fight, when he finds out who he is, he asks for the images himself and records them from the monitor with his mobile”. The presenter asks: “To keep them as a souvenir?””, and Marco confirms: “To keep them as a souvenir”. Neither González nor Mayka Navarro – who was participating in the interview – asked him how such an unheard-of frivolity was possible. Marco insisted that this mysterious man was the one who warned “a person close to the environment of La Vanguardia” about the video, and repeated that it is about “a very important family in this city”. A way to give him authority.The most serious and grotesque thing is that while they were talking, the program kept looping Andic's fall, over and over again, on the set's screen. The way of dehumanizing the dead, of turning him into a meme, of reducing him to a test, of repeating the image of the falling man to implant it in our minds is alarmingly insensitive. Marco, by the way, explained that sooner or later we would also see some images they had recorded of people being thrown from the mountain tied with harnesses to reproduce the fall, and he assured that if we saw them, “our souls would shrink”. You already know what the next chapter of the defense will be.

The defense of Jonathan Andic has come out in force to compensate for the image of the investigated person entering the Martorell court handcuffed. And, for this reason, we have heard a detective declare on RAC1 that the Mossos sergeant does not care "a shit about what happened on the mountain", that he is acting thinking that thanks to the case he will end up appearing on Crims and that the judge in charge of the case is a kind of substitute figurehead without personality who the police have "brainwashed" into dictating the actions that suit the Mossos. Simultaneously, the defense has distributed among some media the video of Isak Andic stumbling, ending up on the ground, with the intention that we understand that, if he had knee arthritis, why couldn't he have accidentally stumbled also on Montserrat and fallen to his death on the day of his death?The defense of the founder of Mango's son will know what it's doing, but this whole line of communication is pathetic. In an extraordinarily painful case for the family and considerably sensitive for the brand, it adds the missing touch of morbidity to invite society to choose, as if this were a derby, between a crooked cop who acts on his own and manipulates an inexperienced judge, and a son so greedy and unscrupulous that he is capable of parricide.19th-century serial novels were already full of public judgments about scandalous cases that divided society. We haven't advanced much. Today, reputational communication is played out without ethical limits, because facts don't matter as much as the narrative about them reaching people's gut so they are thoroughly convinced.

Jonathan Andic, under investigation for the death of his father, Mango owner Isak Andic, begins to defend himself. His lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, has filed an appeal with the Barcelona Court of Appeal to try to revoke the precautionary measures against his client, such as the one million euro bail he had to pay to avoid prison, the confiscation of his passport, or the prohibition from leaving the country. In his statement last week after being arrested by the Mossos d'Esquadra, Jonathan Andic limited himself to answering his lawyer's questions with monosyllables. Now that he has had access to the 1,400-page case file and has been able to learn what are the various indications surrounding him, Martell has attempted to begin refuting them in this appeal, to which ARA has had access.

Jonathan Andic, son of Mango's founder and until now vice-president of the Catalan fashion multinational, is temporarily stepping down from his positions at the company to focus on his defense. Andic's temporary withdrawal comes a week after the Mossos d'Esquadra arrested him, accused of the homicide of his father, Isak Andic, who died in Collbató in December 2024. The eldest son of Mango's founder, who avoided provisional prison after paying a one-million-euro bail, has sent an open letter to the staff in which he defends his innocence and expresses his "frustration" with the situation he is in.

Family business specialists recommend separating business from family relationships. This is not just a thesis constructed in a laboratory, but one that has a reflection in reality. The case of Mango, the textile empire founded by Isak Andic, is a good example. The company closed the past year with historic figures, despite the sudden death of its founder in a fall from a cliff in the Montserrat area. This same week, the Mossos arrested his eldest son, Jonathan, who was accompanying him on that excursion, for allegedly causing him to fall. Subsequently, he was released after paying a bail of one million euros.

Shortly before his death, Isak Andic had begun to outline what he wanted to be his final great work: a foundation intended to channel part of his fortune towards social causes. The founder of Mango was already discreetly collaborating with institutions like Sant Joan de Déu, but he wanted to turn that commitment into a legacy. The project never materialized. And this week, the judicial investigation into the businessman's death has made that unfinished philanthropic project a central piece of the case.has turned that unfinished philanthropic project into a central piece of the case..

Among the multiple frictions that the judicial interlocutory that has led to The judge in charge of instruction court number 5 of Martorell, following the analysis of the messages between father and son, identifies a "bad relationship" caused, in part, by "Mr. Jonathan Andic's obsession with money." According to the order, however, the then CEO of Mango Man learned in mid-2024 of his father's intentions to create the foundation. Following this, the evidence obtained by the Mossos reflects a "notable change" in the detainee's behavior, who "would have acknowledged that his attitude towards money is not correct."The order links, in this sense, this change of attitude with the excursion to the caves of Collbató in which Isak Andic suffered the fatal accident.

It is quite disheartening that, as soon as the news of Jonathan Andic's arrest appeared as an accused (but not guilty, nor tried, nor sentenced) in his father's death, the reaction of many compatriots was to wonder when Carles Porta would make an episode of Crims. The popular interest (or at least, what could be seen on Twitter) reached the point where Porta himself was forced to publish a tweet reminding good people that this would be jumping the gun. (But he also announced that they “will try to do the Andic case”, because indeed the program consists of documentary and dramatized recreations of real-life crime cases). Nor should we be scandalized by things that are more than known. Crime is morbid, parricide is morbid, the crimes and parricides of the rich and the very rich are even more morbid (because, yes, the mob is thrilled when the powerful fall into the same mud as the rest of mortals: that's what classic tragedies are about), and all this morbidity, when it hits the right note of success, always sells enormous quantities of whatever: tickets, copies, downloads, viewers. However, crime is not a trivial matter. It is sad and sordid, as we know from Dostoevsky, who in Crime and Punishment narrates a crime among the poor. It is also philosophical and chilling, as Tolstoy teaches us in The Kreutzer Sonata, a husband who kills his wife, in a well-to-do marriage, because he cannot bear the sexual act. Liberating and abysmal, as we read in The Infanticide by Víctor Català, or vengeful and dark as in The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe. It can still be, moreover, hilarious, as Thomas De Quincey demonstrates in The Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts. It can become a source of entertainment when presented as a puzzle to be solved, as in the infinity of stories (literary, cinematic, television) that follow the schemes of the stories of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, or Inspector Maigret. We must naturally add the roughness and murkiness of the American hard-boiled, the coldness of the French polar, or the Mediterranean illuminations of the Italian giallo. Things become less interesting when they fall into sensationalism, opportunism, or a kind of catharsis for citizens of declining national communities (“it's just that we, if we set our minds to it, are also capable of killing each other, you know”). There are two more references, Truman Capote's novel In Cold Blood and Emmanuel Carrère's The Adversary, which have become easy justifications for all sorts of programs, podcasts, and more novels of what is known as true crime, a denomination where what has real power of attraction is more the true than the crime: an audience eager to consume recreations of real crimes, with their blood and guts, to then go to sleep warm. And who, when they hear the news of a sensational crime, already Pavlovianly imagine the narration that their favorite program will make. It is, also, an image of a country.

The arrest of Jonathan Andic, accused of his father's death, captured the attention of televisions on Tuesday morning, especially from the moment he arrived at the Martorell courts. With permission, of course, of the news about Zapatero's imputation: Spanish media were full of it, doing very exhaustive live specials, with little time to report on anything else. Sara Loscos, on Tot es mou, spoke of "the image of the day and beyond". Without a doubt, it was. All the news programs used it, specifying that the detainee was handcuffed and, in some cases, repeating the scene on several occasions. On Informativos Telecinco they replayed the accused's journey with the mossos entering and leaving the courts up to six times. They specified that Andic was cabizbajo y esposado (head down and handcuffed), to emphasize the image. The snapshot also served to illustrate the news on studio screens and reference the story. The detainee's social status in this context was the morbid element. There were headlines that served to add sensationalism and drama to the case. On Mañaneros on La 1, they asked on a screen caption: ¿Mató a su padre por la fortuna de Mango? (Did he kill his father for Mango's fortune?), and on Informativos Telecinco they announced it as La herencia envenenada (The poisoned inheritance), to delve into the details of the story.Most of the programs took a retrospective look at the case to refresh viewers' memories. Some news programs even returned to the Montserrat area near the scene of the events. They interviewed lawyers, criminologists, and crime experts to recall the most sordid details and some theories that had been put forward in the past year. On "Tot es mou", the discussion served as a strategy for speculation., the discussion served as a strategy for speculation.In the news, there was another differentiating fact that caught the attention. At Antena 3 Noticias, they pixelated the faces of the Mossos d'Esquadra who accompanied Andic to protect their identity. At La Sexta Noticias, on the other hand, they pixelated the detainee and left the faces of the police visible. In the rest of the news programs, they did not erase anyone's image. There is no single criterion or clear approach in the decision.Meanwhile, in X, Carles Porta responded to viewers' requests: “Of course we will try to cover the Andic case, but now is not the time. Allow me to remind you that a detainee is not guilty even if they are sent to prison. A trial and a sentence are necessary. We have to wait and see how everything evolves”. The proof of the need to spectacularize the story and the audience's impatience to discover the details. A voracity that seems to make us increasingly insensitive to tragedy.

We read in ARA that Jonathan Andic, accused of homicide against his father, Isak Andic, the founder of the Mango clothing stores, has entered the Martorell courts handcuffed and "with his head down".

The arrest of Jonathan Andic, son of Mango founder Isak Andic, introduces a new variable into the equation that was the death of the historic Catalan fashion businessman. Andic's passing in December 2024, long treated as a tragic accident, forced a reorganization of the ownership and businesses of the Principality's fashion giant. As early as January 2025, the three children divided the executive positions of Punta Na Holding, the company that holds 95% of Mango's ownership through Mango MNG Holding; as well as the family's patrimonial company, which also operates under the same umbrella.

Before talking about the signing of the budget agreement between Illa and Junqueras, this morning we had two bombshell news. The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested Jonathan Andic, the son of Mango founder Isak Andic, for the death of his father, who died at 71 while hiking in the Salnitre caves. Although initially treated as an accident, a few months ago the Mossos began investigating Andic's son for homicide, who was the only person with whom the businessman was that day. And while we were still processing the news, the political bombshell arrived: Zapatero has been charged with influence peddling, criminal organization, and document forgery in the case of the Plus Ultra airline bailout. The company was bailed out by Sánchez's government during the pandemic with a loan of 53 million euros. Now the National Court is charging Zapatero for having influenced (having received a commission of 10 million, deposited in an account in Panama) this bailout. He has always denied it, and Sánchez has always said the bailout was done correctly. The group that reported Zapatero was the far-right group Manos Limpias. Today, his office was searched, and he will have to appear to testify in 15 days. The first pieces of evidence, which became known this morning when the secrecy of the investigation was lifted, do not seem very solid. He is the first former Spanish president to be charged in Spain (Rajoy has been charged in Andorra). The impact for Sánchez is huge: they are friends, Zapatero supports him - unlike Felipe González -, and if we add to this the result in Andalusia, the funeral in Moncloa continues today. And I would bet anything that within 24 hours someone will remember that Zapatero was negotiating with Puigdemont (like Santos Cerdán). Meanwhile, this morning, at 8 o'clock, President Salvador Illa and Oriol Junqueras were at the Palau de la Generalitat and shook hands again, as a prelude to the photo of the day, that of the signing of the agreement between the Government and Esquerra Republicana by which Junqueras' party will approve the 2026 budgets of Illa's government. These are days of handshakes. Yesterday they already had the first one in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia at the presentation of the orbital train.As always, when a party gives a vote as important as the budget vote to a government, the debate is whether it has settled for little or a lot. Especially since Esquerra is an independentist party and the PSC is not, and it enthusiastically supported 155. Firstly, I think no one should be surprised that Esquerra or Comuns approve accounts for the PSC, because the most important agreement was already made, which is the investiture. If there was any incoherence in ERC's support for the PSC, it was then, not now. I believe that if you vote for someone's investiture, you have an obligation to cooperate with them during the legislature that other parties do not have. Whoever invests is saying they see potential. The fact is that for some time now, we have naturally accepted that, for example, next year there will be no budgets because there are municipal and Spanish elections and, of course, parties cannot support each other. Perhaps this is what is done nowadays, but I find it very selfish on the part of the parties. From this point of view, it is normal for Esquerra to give its vote to the Government. 

The Catalan multinational fashion company Mango increased its profit by 11% in 2025, to 242 million euros, in line with the 13% increase in turnover compared to the previous yearMango's revenue reached nearly €3.8 billion, as reported this Thursday by the company's president and CEO, Toni Ruiz. "We have managed to turn a complicated year into a record year," Ruiz stated at the press conference presenting the results at the group's headquarters in Palau-solità i Plegamans (Vallès Occidental). The CEO noted that 2025 was "the first year without our founder," referring to the death of Isak Andic in December 2024. With these results, Mango maintains the upward trend of recent years, following the initial impact on the Catalan retail sector. Compared to 2019—the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic—the multinational has increased its revenue by approximately €1.5 billion. Ruiz celebrated that the group is "growing well above the market." "Mango is experiencing the strongest period in its history," he added. Looking ahead to this year, the president has set the company's goal of reaching €4 billion in revenue.

The family of Mango founder Isak Andic paid tribute to the businessman this Friday on the first anniversary of his death in a mountain accident, which falls this Sunday. His three children, Jonathan, Judith, and Sarah, laid flowers this morning at the sculpture by Jaume Plensa at Mango's headquarters in Palau-solità i Plegamans (Vallès Occidental).

The investigation into the death of Mango founder Isak Andic is currently at a key moment. The Mossos d'Esquadra are analyzing the personal mobile phone of his eldest son, Jonathan Andic, who is being investigated in this case, which is being handled by the courts of Martorell. The police have been searching for a month for conversations, photographs, emails, and other potentially suspicious elements. Before reaching this point, one of the elements that the police investigation has taken into account is the emptying of his father's mobile phone, as ARA has been able to ascertain.

Plot twist in the Andic case. Nine months have passed since Mango owner Isak Andic died at the age of 71 while hiking in the Salnitre caves in Collbató, accompanied by his eldest son, Jonathan Andic. Despite the passing months, the judicial investigation into the case has not concluded, to the point that Jonathan Andic is now considered a suspect in his father's death. This was recently decided by the head of investigating court number 5 of Martorell, which is handling the case, after analyzing various pieces of evidence provided by the investigation of the Mossos d'Esquadra.