After more than thirty years with the justice and police chronicler, Carlos Quilez presents the 18 crime stories that have had the most impact on his professional career. A book that contains some stories written by the prisoners themselves, starting with those sentenced by frequent crimes, rapes or murders, as in the case of rose pear, right up to police officers from other eras or high-ranking officials like Sandro Rosell.
“Condenados relatos (More Bad Life)” is a collection of crime stories Carlos Quilez knows it firsthand, having worked as a police and justice information reporter for more than thirty years. He has known them and sometimes suffered them. Just this one Proximity to the perpetrator, the police, the judge and the victim allows this story to be built in a “disinterested but extraordinary” way developerthe weaknesses of our society”.
After more than thirty years of journalism in the “bad life,” Quílez offers brushstrokes of reality with these stories that star people who one day decided to create one Path of no return.
The stories presented by the author in this True Crime book are accompanied by other stories written by prisoners that “candidly and completely expose” their views on life, on freedom, on prison, etc. detail the extraordinary pain they inflicted on their victims. Sandro Rosell (two years of preventive imprisonment unjustly), Pear rose (sentenced to 25 years in prison for the crime of the city guard), Jesus Contreras (aka the Tracksuit Robber), A puddle (the Robin Hood of Vallecas)Emmanuel (Cap of Mara Salvatrucha), Matagatos (representative of a criminal race on the verge of extinction) and with other criminals and police officers who were kind enough to share some of their most intimate memories to write their stories that permeate Emotion, rawness and urgency. The chapter on the tragic and pantomimic trial of the anarchist activist deserves special mentionin Salvador Puig Antich. “Condemnats relatos” is like a slap into reality and a close-up of “our society as an accomplice and victim of its own failure.”
Carlos Quilez Lazaro (Barcelona, 1966) holds a degree in journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a master’s degree in judicial journalism from the Autonomous University of Madrid. After twenty years at the head of the court and police department SER chain In Barcelona, Carlos Quílez headed the analysis department of the Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia. After passing through this institution, he returned to journalism with the help of Global Chronicle, The Sexta TV, Rac 1 and TV3. In 2019 he founded the digital newspaper Eltaquigrafo.com specializing in event journalism. From 2022 he will coordinate the events section of the program “I plow Sonsoles” from antenna 3.
Quílez was a professor of research journalism at the Pompeu Fabra University this day International University of Catalonia and author of a dozen true crime books. He won the Rodolfo Walsh Award from the Setmana Negra de Gijón and the Crims de Tinta Award for black novels from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
