The case on the crime of Helena Jubany in Sabadell (Barcelona) on December 2, 2001 has taken a flip this week, when Judge Juan Díaz Villar has reopened the investigation into the principle suspect, Santi Laiglesia, and has ordered DNA samples to be taken to check them with these discovered on the sufferer’s physique. In parallel to Helena’s household, it’s also celebrated by the sisters and pals of Montse Careta, imprisoned for the crime after an investigation filled with irregularities.
Montse dedicated suicide in May 2002 within the bogs of the Wad-Ras jail (Barcelona), the place she was serving preventive detention, and left a notice defending her innocence. She was additionally the associate of Santi Laiglesia. Those near her, like her sister Imma Careta, have spent 21 years defending not solely the presumption of innocence of Montse Careta but in addition that she was one other sufferer of a “macho crime”.
Question: How did you obtain the information that the investigation into your ex-brother-in-law was reopened?
Imma Careta : We have been ready for this second for a very long time. My sister and I are very comfortable and wish to cry, there’s emotion and worry that the investigation will go improper once more. 21 years in the past, amongst different checks such because the calligraphic professional, the genetic profile of the then accused was requested and was systematically denied. The decide has put issues again in place.
Q: They have been defending Montse’s innocence for 21 years. Who are they and what are they after?
A: His pals Anna and Eladi and Montse’s two sisters. She manifested her innocence in all her letters. But it isn’t us who say it, it’s the proof that proves it.
My sister couldn’t benefit from the presumption of innocence
We have all the time believed that Montse had nothing to do with the homicide of Helena Jubany and increasingly individuals see her as a second sufferer on this case. It was the right piece that the actual murderers positioned on the proper time and place and allowed an indolent decide to convict her regardless of all of the proof. In addition, she was completely badly suggested by her associate, Santi Laiglesia, in order that she couldn’t open her eyes to the truth that fell on her. My sister couldn’t benefit from the presumption of innocence.
Q: Tell us about Montse. Like she was?
A: He was a superb particular person, educated, cultured and incapable of harming anybody. She didn’t have a simple life. She by no means received over the demise of our brother, to whom she was very shut. She additionally carried complexes and insecurities. Wad-Ras’s psychiatrist licensed that she was incapable of killing somebody. Over the years many individuals have come to help us. One of them labored within the Wad-Ras jail and informed us that the day Montse died, all of the inmates within the unit refused to eat or obey orders as a result of they defended her innocence. And the jail officers additionally believed in her innocence.
Picture of Montse Careta throughout an outing on mortgage BY THE CARETA FAMILY
Q: How had been your sister’s months in jail?
A: Montse needed to endure detention, interrogations, jail and isolation with incomprehension. She didn’t perceive the details of which they accused her. In all her letters he manifested her innocence and eventually surrendered to a strain that she was not capable of bear. She felt identified by some acts that she had not dedicated and from which she didn’t know tips on how to defend herself. She couldn’t reply to the proof that incriminated her: she knew it was not her however the decide requested her for solutions and he or she didn’t know tips on how to give them. Nothing will deliver Montse again to us, however we belief that the reality will show her innocence.
Q: Who do you assume was the assassin of Helena Jubany?
A: We imagine that each Santi Laiglesia and Xavi Jiménez had been concerned within the homicide of Helena Jubany. They have been free for years, having fun with freedom with whole impunity. They sealed a pact of silence that nobody has damaged and Montse’s suicide paved the way in which for them. There is dependable proof that Santi lied. Thanks to this system ‘Crims’ (TV3) the case has been reopened. One of the policemen who investigated already stated that they had been very positive that he was the assassin however that the decide didn’t allow them to examine.
It is obvious that the irregularities within the first instruction weren’t a procedural error. The decide most well-liked to go in opposition to an harmless instructor than in opposition to a responsible lawyer.
Q: What proof proves your sister’s innocence?
A: It is extraordinarily distant that an individual with Montse’s traits might carry Helena’s physique up so many steps, overcome the wall and throw it into the void. They set him up.
In Helena’s physique there was a cocktail of medicine, not simply the sleeping tablet Noctamid, however a cocktail utilized in chemical submission rape. During the inquest, the coroner dominated out rape as a result of Helena “was sporting her panties”. A bit of critical! We imagine it was a sexist crime perpetrated by a number of males, what they now name “herds.” It is apparent that Helena was held for 3 days. They raped and murdered Helena and have spent 21 years laughing on the victims and their households.
Q: What was your sister’s relationship with Santi Laiglesia like?
A: It was a relationship, my mom cherished him very a lot. Helena Jubany’s physique appeared on December 2 and that Christmas we went to eat at her home. We noticed her thinner, my mom requested Santi if every little thing was going nicely and he reassured her and informed her that she was. They deliberate to get married in September. She was very a lot in love.
When we analyzed the occasions after Montse’s arrest, we started to see that issues weren’t as they appeared. Several attorneys have defined to us that Montse might undergo psychological abuse however she was unaware.
Santi was unsupervised at Montse’s home for seven hours and so they discovered the proof very nicely positioned.
Q: Were you continue to a pair after the arrest?
A: Yes, and issues began to not add up. They arrested her on February 12 at 2:00 p.m. and the police searched her residence seven hours later, at 9:00 p.m. During these seven hours, Santi was at Montse’s home with out supervision and so they discovered the proof very nicely positioned. Helena’s physique was discovered with match burns. Curiously, at Montse’s home they discovered two empty matchboxes, completely positioned, after two months. They had been by no means in contrast with these discovered on the terrace.
He continued with the dynamic. He denied that he lived at Montse’s home, when she had her keys and got here and went when she wished. Since he was a lawyer, we requested if she might communicate to the decide when she was arrested, however he refused. He, alternatively, introduced himself as a lawyer in jail to have the ability to go to her. He needed to proceed the manipulation.
Notebook that Montse Careta wrote in jail the place she shares her fears with Santi Laiglesia (on the left) and he offers her encouragement (on the precise) ON CREDIT BY THE CARETA FAMILY
Q: Did Montse suspect who the writer could possibly be?
A: She by no means suspected Santi, he was her associate and he or she trusted him. The psychiatrist who handled her in Wad-Ras informed me: “Your sister does not know something”, and he too was satisfied that she was harmless. What her letters present is anguish and struggling, the headlines of the time identified that Sentmenat’s librarian was murdered by her buddy. In April she wrote the farewell letters for her.
Q: They ask that the case be reviewed from the gender perspective.
A. Yes, my sister was one other sufferer. Helena was brutally murdered and Montse was mercilessly left in her cell. And there’s a third suspect, Ana Echaguivel, who we’re satisfied is harmless. The males questioned level out that in July he had an argument with Helena throughout an tour. Is he going to kill her for that alone? If these males level to the ladies throughout questioning, the decide ought to have suspected them as nicely and questioned them as he questioned them.
The culprits of my sister’s suicide have already completed nicely. Dead the canine, useless the rabies
Q: What pursuits do you assume there was in holding it coated?
A: He was poorly instructed and poorly investigated. Judicially he was a joke. The decide all the time put sticks within the wheels in order that the investigation didn’t advance. Helena’s physique was discovered on December 2 and shelved on February 12 with just one detainee. Such a fancy case just isn’t closed so rapidly. The culprits of my sister’s suicide have already completed nicely. Dead the canine, useless rabies. Luckily different judges have handed and have completed their job nicely.
Q: Have you spoken to Helena Jubany’s household?
R. We have all the time spoken with the Jubany household and their attorneys have our full collaboration. Now they’ve a superb lawyer who makes an ideal protection and we’re comfortable. We had been widespread prosecution till the decide positioned us as witnesses, the place we are able to contribute rather more to the trigger. Like them, we pursue the reality. And we wish individuals to be clear that Montse was yet one more sufferer, though nobody can return her to us.