The clues against Jonathan Andic: a rare slip, the “hatred” of the father, and the change of will

Jonathan Andic, 45 years old, and accused of killing his father Isak Andic during a walk in Montserrat in December 2024, learned this Tuesday about the evidence that the Mossos d’Esquadra have gathered over the last year and a half to maintain their suspicions. A long list of clues that the presiding judge of court 5 in Martorell enumerated in a very harsh detention order that was made public. A document that included the request from prosecutor Teresa Yoldi to send the eldest son to prison for a homicide crime, but a measure avoidable by a one million euro bail that the accused deposited in ten minutes. Immediately afterwards, he was released, with the prohibition to leave Spain, after handing over his passport to the magistrate, and once again making the walk before the media, but this time without the handcuffs with which he arrived when he was taken into custody.

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Practically no one in Jonathan Andic’s circle expected the arrest. They were prepared for him to be summoned to testify, but not to be arrested and visit the Martorell police station cells a couple of times.

At that police station, the report that the judge received this Tuesday and partly uses to justify her decision to charge Jonathan Andic with his father’s death was prepared over the last year and a half.

Although not all the evidence gathered by the investigators is included, some allow the magistrate to warn that there was “premeditation and preparation” in the death. To begin with, those three previous visits to the Montserrat mountain in the same week the death occurred, which the accused did not mention in his first police statement. The judge is also surprised by the “strange” disappearance of the mobile phone Jonathan was carrying on the day of the incident, which he said was stolen during a quick trip to Ecuador, and the switch to another phone coinciding, the judge asserts, with the media reports already covering the reopening of the investigation.

There is an initial element that the magistrate dwells on and that first caught the attention of the investigators who went to Montserrat on December 14. The footprint of the alleged slip that caused what could have been an accidental fall of Isak Andic. The mountain unit of the Mossos carried out up to four reconstructions of that footprint. They reached the same conclusion as their fellow investigators, that it was a “forced” footprint and that Isak Andic would have had to rub intensely against the ground up to four times to leave that mark. The judge adopts the thesis that this mark was recreated to make it seem that it was at that point where the slip or accidental fall occurred.

For the magistrate, who has been regularly informed of all the investigators’ progress over this year and a half, just like the prosecutor, the alleged motive for the death is financial. She cites Isak Andic’s intention to change his will and create a foundation to help disadvantaged people as the turning point.

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From the investigation, the magistrate understands that there are sufficient indications and evidence pointing to a “possible active and premeditated participation” of Jonathan in the businessman’s death. A premeditation that could open the door to a murder charge, but for now, the judge maintains it as homicide.

The order focuses on the father-son relationship and questions Jonathan’s statements that they were good, when through third parties and messages on the father’s phone it has been confirmed that they were not good. On the contrary, the eldest son is reproached for his “manipulative” ability over his father, his “obsession with money,” and that he even managed to get the businessman to transfer part of his inheritance to him during his lifetime as a condition to maintain the family relationship. A threat that was accompanied by others that required the mediation of an Ecuadorian psychologist with German nationality, therapist to several members of the Andic family, who intervened and convinced the patriarch to agree to the son’s wishes. The investigators collect several writings cited by the judge in which Jonathan had “verbalized feeling hatred, resentment, thoughts of death, and blaming his father for his situation.”

From the beginning, it became known that the eldest son of the Mango founder had entered into some contradictions between the two statements he gave to the Mossos, on the afternoon of the 14th and on December 31, during three hours, and as a witness. In the first, he said he was walking a few meters ahead, that he did not see him, that his father stopped to take some photos, and that he heard some stones fall, turned around, and saw a body rolling among bushes. In the second statement, he was walking with his father, and only took photos at the start of the route. For the judge, it is “unlikely” that if they were walking together he did not see him fall. She insists that the path “presented no difficulty” and that the only point on the entire route where there is a possibility of falling into the void “is where the events occurred.”

The investigators also refer to the autopsy report that determined the fall was “as if he had slid down a slide, feet first,” and with injuries only on one part of the body incompatible with an accidental fall.

The magistrate states in the order that “the father, in an attempt to reconcile with his son, accepts the excursion his son proposes to talk just the two of them.” Isak Andic’s other two daughters have believed and supported their brother from the beginning.

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