2023-12-18 18:15:16
After more than thirty years with the judicial and police chronicler, Carlos Quilez presents the 18 criminal stories that have marked him the most in his professional career. A book that includes some stories written by the prisoners themselves, ranging from those convicted by common crimes, rapes or murders, as the case of Rose Pear, up to policemen from other eras or high officials like Sandro Rosell.
‘Condenados relatos (More bad life)’ is a collection of criminal stories that Carlos Quilez has known firsthand after more than thirty years as a reporter of police and judicial information. He has known them and sometimes suffered them. Only this one proximity to the criminal, the police, the judge and the victim allows this story to be built “disinterestedly, but extraordinarily developerof the weaknesses of our society”.
Quílez, after more than thirty years of ‘bad life’ journalism, offers brushstrokes of reality with these stories starring people who one day decided to start a road of no return.
The stories that the author presents in this ‘true crime’ book are accompanied by other stories written by prisoners and express who, “sincerely and completely stripped of their make-up”, explain their perspective on life, on freedom, of the prison and the extraordinary pain they have caused their victims. Sandro Rosell (two years in preventive prison unjustly), Pear Rose (sentenced to twenty-five years for the crime of the Urban Guard), Jesus Contreras (aka the tracksuit robber), A puddle (the Robin Hood of Vallecas)Emmanuel (cap of the Mara Salvatrucha), Matagatos (exponent of a criminal race on the verge of extinction) and with other criminals and policemen who have been kind enough to tell some of their most intimate memories to write their stories that permeate emotion, rawness and viscerality. Special mention to the chapter on the tragic and pantomime trial of the anarchist activistin Salvador Puig Antich. ‘Condemnats relatos’ is like a punch of reality and a close-up photo of “this society of ours as complicit as well as victim of its own failures”.
Carlos Quilez Lázaro (Barcelona, 1966) has a degree in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a master’s degree in Judicial Journalism from the Autonomous University of Madrid. After twenty years at the head of the courts and police section of the SER Chain in Barcelona, Carlos Quílez directed the Analysis section of the Antifraud Office of Catalonia. After his passage through this institution, he returned to journalism with the help of Global Time.news, the Sexta TV, Rac 1 i TV3. In 2019 he founded the digital newspaper Eltaquigrafo.com specialized in events journalism. From 2022, he coordinates the events section of the program ‘I plow Sonsoles’ of Antenna 3.
Quílez has been professor of research journalism at the Pompeu Fabra University that day International University of Catalonia and author of a dozen ‘true crime’ books. He won the Rodolfo Walsh Award of the Setmana Negra de Gijón and the Crims de Tinta Award for black novels from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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