The Anagrama publishing house has communicated this Thursday that he voluntarily maintains his decision to respect the request for precautionary measures of the Prosecutor’s Office to paralyze the distribution of the book ‘El Odio’, by Luisgé Martín, who collects the confessions of José Breton about the murder of his children in Córdoba in 2011, and has suspended the distribution of the work ‘Sine die’ despite the subsequent denial of these.
In a statement, he stated the “absolute respect” that the mother of the minors Ruth Ortiz deserves and regrets the pain that the information disseminated on the publication and distribution of the book could have caused.
Anagrama has assured that the only author of the work is Luisgé Martín and has denied that “payment of any nature is to be made or made to be convicted of the horrible crimes committed in 2011”.
The editorial has considered that, in a democratic society, there must be a “balance” between creative freedom as a fundamental right and the protection of victims, and has pointed out that works such as ‘hate’ require a double dose of responsibility and respect.
He said that in an exercise of prudence and voluntarily, the publisher has assured that he has decided to “maintain the suspension of the distribution of the work indefinitely.”
Prosecutor’s appeal
This has ruled the publishing house after the Prosecutor’s Office of Barcelona presented an appeal against the decision of the head of the Court of First Instance 39 of Barcelona, which on Monday denied the precautionary measure requested by the Children’s Section of the Prosecutor’s Office of Barcelona, which requested the provisional suspension of the publication and distribution of the work.
The Public Ministry assured in its appeal that the Anagrama publishing house had breached its “obligation” to communicate the content of the book in order to examine it to consider whether there is an illegitimate interference of the right to honor.
Even so, he argued that, despite not knowing the content of the work, as the holder requested, the Court of “more than enough documentation was transferred to assess, anticipate and conclude with due rigor and total security that there is the serious and imminent risk of illegitimate interference in the right to honor.”
In response to the judge, who alleged that paralyzing the publication and distribution of the work would mean a restriction of the fundamental right to freedom of expression, the Prosecutor’s Office said that, in this case, “we are also facing another fundamental right such as the right to honor.”
He added that the publication of the work could cause “an impairment or irreversible injury”, because the damage would already be done although the mother of the minors subsequently undertake legal actions.