2023-12-18 15:06:47
After more than thirty years as a judicial and police reporter, Carlos Quilez presents the 18 crime stories that have marked him the most in his professional career. A choral book that includes some stories written by the prisoners themselves, ranging from those convicted of common crimes, rapes or murders, such as the case of Pear Roseeven police officers from other times or senior officials such as Sandro Rosell.
‘Damned stories (More bad life)‘is a compendium of criminal stories that Carlos Quílez has known first-hand after more than thirty years as a chronicler of police and judicial information. He has known them and at times has suffered them. Only this proximity with the criminal, the police, the judge and the victim allows us to construct this “disinterested, but extraordinarily revealing, story of the weaknesses of our society.”
Quílez, after more than thirty years of ‘bad life’ journalism, offers as flashes of reality These stories feature guys who one day decided to start a path of no return, gun in hand, to nowhere.
The stories that the author presents in this ‘true crime’ book are accompanied byand other stories written in the handwriting of prisoners and prisoners who, “from sincerity and completely undressed”explain their perspective on life, freedom, prison and the extraordinary pain they have caused their victims. Sandro Rosell (two years in preventive detention unjustly), Pear Rose (sentenced to twenty-five years for the crime of the Urban Police), Jesus Contreras (known as the tracksuit robber), A puddle (the Robin Hood of Vallecas), Emmanuel (head of the Mara Salvatrucha), Matagatos (exponent of a criminal race in danger of extinction) and with other criminals and police officers who have been kind enough to strip away some of their most intimate memories to write their stories that exude emotion, rawness and viscerality. Special mention to the chapter on the tragic and pantomime trial of the anarchist activist Salvador Puig Antich. ‘Condemned stories’ is a punch of reality in the pit of the stomach and a very close-up photo of “this society of ours, so complicit and victim of its own failures.”
Carlos Quílez Lázaro (Barcelona, 1966) is degree in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and 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 Cadena SER in Barcelona, Carlos Quílez ended up at the Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia as Director of Analysis. After his time at this institution, he returned to journalism with Crónica Global, Sexta TV, Rac 1 and TV3. In 2019 he founded the digital newspaper Eltaquígrafo.com specialized in events journalism. Since 2022, he has coordinated the events section in the program ‘And now Sonsoles’ on Antena 3.
Quílez has been a professor of investigative journalism at the Pompeu Fabra University and the International University of Catalonia and author of a dozen ‘true crime’ books. He won the Rodolfo Walsh Prize from the Black Week of Gijón and the Crims de Tinta Prize for crime novels from the Generalitat of Catalonia.
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