On February 20, 2024, ten months before dying after falling on the Camí de les Feixades in Montserrat, Isak Andic stumbled in the lobby of the Mutua Universal Barcelona headquarters, on Tibidabo Avenue. That fall, stopped by the intervention of a second person who prevented the founder of Mango from hitting the ground face-first, was recorded by the entity’s security cameras.
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The tape has been in the possession of Jonathan Andic’s defense for six months; he is accused of killing his father that afternoon on the mountain. The images of that first accidental fall were dissected, frame by frame, analyzed and interpreted until a pattern was defined that, later, the defense experts reproduced in the scenario where Isak Andic died.
Cristobal Martell’s team used mannequins with sensors, drones, and high-definition cameras brought expressly from the United States for the recreation in Montserrat. The expert who signs the report, Francisco Marco, from the Método 3 agency, concludes that the injuries documented in the recreation, using the same pattern of the fall at Mutua Universal, are the same as those the forensic experts accredited in their autopsy report. Hence, the defense maintains that businessman Isak Andic accidentally fell that afternoon on December 14, 2024, without his son’s intervention.
The report analyzes the fall in the lobby of the businessman, who was 71 years old, and explains that that afternoon he suffered a “sudden loss of balance” and then progressively leaned. Isak Andic, the expert work adds, had an “absence of the reflex” to stop the fall with his hands, and his body tilted to his right. A sequence that, in the opinion of the expert who signs the report accessed by La Vanguardia, defines a pattern that was later transferred to the path where Isak Andic died, and which explains the hypothesis “of accidental fortuitous fall and objectively weakens the hypothesis of third-party intervention.”
The conclusions of the Método 3 report are included in the appeal against the prison order that lawyer Cristobal Martell filed yesterday at the Barcelona Court.
The defense also sought a medical explanation for that first accidental fall. The images from Mutua Universal were analyzed by doctors from the Complutense University of Madrid, Javier Ladrón de Guevara and Gema Águila Manso. Both certify that Isak Andic suffered from “bilateral gonarthrosis” with a “documented neuromotor incapacity” that prevented him from “activating the protective reflex against a fall.” A condition that the defense claims his son was unaware of. The Mossos d’Esquadra report contains no reference to any illnesses the victim might have had, and in the corpse examination report signed by the on-duty forensic doctor that weekend, the doctor certifies the deceased’s good health. In any case, on the morning of the businessman’s death, according to statements in the file, there are witnesses who say they saw Isak Andic applying ice to his knees before the walk with his son.
The defense maintains that the fall was accidental and that the victim had impaired reflexes
The defense aims with this expert report to provide a scientific explanation for the absence of injuries on the victim’s palms. An element that Judge Raquel Nieto lists among the incriminating evidence against the accused, and which the Mossos d’Esquadra investigators from the Martorell unit also highlight in their reports. For the investigators, the founder of Mango did not have injuries on the palms of his hands because he had no chance to react to an unexpected fall that involved his son, according to the police.
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The defense expert traveled to the Camí de les Feixades and directed an on-site reconstruction involving several specialists and cameras, using the same parameters as the fall in the Mutua Universal lobby.
Based on that reconstruction, Francisco Marco maintains that the injuries documented by the forensic experts on Isak Andic’s body are compatible with a fall on the mountain following the pattern of the incident previously suffered in Barcelona. With aggravating factors on the mountain such as a descending slope, wet substrate, and “inappropriate footwear” that the victim wore that December Saturday.
The defense carried out the reconstruction on the Camí de les Feixades using a mannequin with sensors and recorded the sequence with drones. First, a stumble occurs, a frontal impact against the slope, and the mannequin slides down the embankment of almost ten meters, “in a toboggan fall,” as Judge Raquel Nieto indicated in her prison order. A slide that would occur in a lateral supine position. In those scarce ten meters, 9.97 to be exact, and with a 45-degree slope, the mannequin instinctively tried to stop with the right upper limb. After that embankment, the shape of the mountain breaks into a cliff with an 87.91-meter drop into the void, where he fell, suffering several impacts against the canyon wall and until the final impact against the ground, which the technicians fixed in the reconstruction at a speed of 153 kilometers per hour.
Five experts led by Francisco Marco used mannequins and drones in Montserrat to recreate the fall
The expert assures that the injuries predicted by his reconstruction “match” qualitatively and topographically with those Isak Andic had and the forensic experts documented in his autopsy. “Without any injury left unexplained nor requiring any additional dynamic element, especially without the need for a push.”
Cristobal Martell, in his appeal, uses about 80 pages of the 400-page report that a team of five experts, led by Francisco Marco, has prepared in recent months. The defense intends to progressively present its counterarguments, which, in the words of the director of Método 3, “objectively dismantle, one by one, the evidence provided by the Mossos d’Esquadra.”
