La farmacèutica

"On November 20, 1992, Maria Àngels Feliu Bassols, a pharmacist from Olot, was kidnapped. This woman, a mother of three children, spent sixteen months underground, buried alive in a hole the size of a closet. Spiders, ants, rats, snakes and humidity were her companions in captivity. " Thus begins the incredibly real story of one of the most extreme cases of the Spanish crime scene. That crime was transformed into a human drama whose investigation, full of police and judicial errors, was accompanied by shameful examples of junk journalism. As if that were not enough, Maria Àngels' captors were unable to complete the express kidnapping they had planned. The only thing they achieved was to eternalize the torture of a woman who survived such adverse circumstances thanks to her determination and her psychic strength. After being released, five years still had to pass for those responsible to be arrested and another four to bring them to trial. After thoroughly reviewing the information generated by the event, Carles Porta has reconstructed the entire case, in a single narrative thread. There is no other such rigorous recreation of all the intertwined stories that surrounded the kidnapping of the Olot pharmaceutical company. Without a doubt, with this book Porta establishes himself as one of the masters of narrative journalism in our country.