We have been making the most horrendous crimes in entertainment years. We have said enough with ‘the hatred’ by José Breton

The José Bretón case, resurrected years after his conviction because of the publication of the Luisgé Martín ‘El Odio’ bookhas taken a new turn. On the one hand, The Prosecutor’s Office has appealed against the publication of the book And he accuses Anagrama of not facilitating the book, as was his obligation to arrive. And anagram, almost simultaneously, has decided to paralyze the distribution indefinitely. This extraordinary event generates countless questions: why ‘hate’ and not other previous books? What does the case of José Breton have particular, why is he considered culturally unacceptable? Will the True Crime To the Spanish from now on?

It will be unpublished. The book that reconstructs the crime of José Breton, which murdered his two children in 2011, will finally not reach bookstores. Anagrama has published a New statement in which he states that “voluntarily, he remains in his decision to respect the request for the precautionary measures requested by the Prosecutor’s Office to paralyze the distribution of the work.” They also regret the pain that the information about the publication may have caused to the mother, Ruth Ortiz, and ensure that works such as ‘hate’ require a double dose of responsibility and respect.

Reaction against. Anagrama has encountered a strong reaction to ‘hate’: not only In social networks and in The bookstores themselves There have been movements against the book, but opinioners of every sign have manifested In favor and against of the edition. Undoubted issued a few days agoand in which they claimed their right to publish ‘hate’. If the murders themselves opened at the time the debate and the condemnation of vicaria violence that Breton had exercised over his wife, this book has done so with a much more complex theme: the freedom of the press and expression in front of the right to the honor of those affected by the text.

Voice to the murderer. It is indisputable that ‘hate’ makes something rare: give voice to the murderer. But it is not absolutely unpublished: innumerable documentaries that interview prison murderers have done so previously, and documentaries as the very prestigious’The Act of Killing‘They have won all their fame precisely because of the reflection on the criminal personality that arouse the first -person reflections of the genocides that appear in it. And ‘Hate’, in addition, it is not a film or a podcast, but a book, which paradoxically should dress of “legitimacy” the experiment, or at least, of an intellectual alibi of which the same product would lack if it were, for example, for example, for example, A television report.

Hate is not an exceptional case. The authentically unique thing of the case is that this book has marked a red line that did not exist with comparable works. Manuel Jabois”s book see you in this life or in the other ‘entered the Asturian plot of 11M giving voice to criminals, and has recently been adapted on a television series. Recent Netflix series, like those of the anthological ‘Monster‘ either ‘The body in flames‘They describe the facts from the point of view of the murderers. Innumerable podcasts, starting with the most popular ‘Criminopathy‘They describe crimes with great detail and make all possible efforts to enter the murderer’s mind. Even if they are accused of morbid, nobody talks about withdrawing them. What has different ‘hate’?

I hate hate. Possibly what has made the difference and has made the observation of ‘hate’ and its legal process into something unheard of and with very few precedents in Spain It is the fear that society has had to identify with the murderer. The coverage of Alcàsser casefor example, he focused on the victims because the criminals, even when there were defendants, always remained involved in the mystery. However, and as much as the author of ‘El Odio’, Luisgé Martín, has insisted that His intention was to generate the opposite effect To bleach, the fear of an understanding of the reasons for the murderer has caused the rejection of society.

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