The Generalitat will compensate the family of the cook from Mas de Enric and admits that the system failed.

BarcelonaThe Generalitat has recognized for the first time responsibilities regarding The murder of cook Núria López in Mas de Enric prison 15 months ago and has agreed to compensate the victim's family with 40,446 euros. This is because "if they hadn't occurred, they could have determined the adoption of different measures" for the inmate, who kept his job in the kitchen despite having committed a very serious offense by assaulting another inmate.

administration, "current regulations were violated" on jobs in the prison by allowing the man to return to the kitchen without having served his sentence. The prisoner worked until the day of the crime, when he also committed suicide. The inmate's work in this space was done without any technical validation," he summarizes. The administration has thus responded to the request for a patrimonial claim submitted by Núria López's cousins, which has been resolved by the advisory legal committee in an opinion that has been advanced. The Country and has consulted the ARA.

"Incorrect" use of RisCanvi

In its response to the claim, the department also admits that staffing levels at the time were "deficient" and acknowledges that improvements are needed. protocols for the use of potentially hazardous materials. It also acknowledges errors in the treatment of the attacker with a view to his reintegration and that "the inmate was allowed to obtain scores that did not correspond to his level of involvement and participation" in the activities, and concludes that the RisCanvi risk assessment tool was used "incorrectly and deficiently."

The opinion of the advisory legal committee concludes that the prison administration "neglected the primary purpose of re-education and social reintegration," which constitutes "abnormal functioning" of the prison service. However, this advisory body rules out, as claimed by the victim's cousins, that the administration did not take measures to protect her after she complained about the inmate who ended up killing her, because it has not been proven that she had said anything beforehand and the attack was unexpected. For all these reasons, the committee has decided that compensation of €40,446 is appropriate, the same amount proposed by the Generalitat (Catalan government) and far from the €1.7 million the family had requested. In setting the amount, the committee took into account that, although there is no established scale for compensation to extended family members, this extended family, in this case the cousins, has traditionally been recognized as victims.