Mossos Mountain Unit Says Mango Founder’s Fall Is Inconclusive
Two Mossos mountain officers told a Martorell judge they cannot conclude Isak Andic's fatal fall was a homicide. The defense cites their report.
Two officers from the mountain unit of the Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalonia’s police) told a judge in Martorell on Friday that they cannot conclude the death of Mango founder Isak Andic was a homicide. They appeared in court as witnesses in the case over his fall into a ravine, for which his son Jonathan Andic is under investigation on suspicion of killing him, according to the Catalan outlet go.eln.cat.
Both officers confirmed their written report. Its conclusion is that the evidence does not settle what caused the fall or whether anyone else took part in it.
What the mountain officers found
To test how the businessman might have fallen, the officers carried out about ten simulated falls. They reproduced the movement along the path, the wall and the slope where Isak Andic went down. None of the simulations gave a conclusive answer about how he fell, the report says.
In the report’s own wording, the causes of the fall and any involvement of other people cannot be determined. The officers repeated that position before the judge.
A separate police finding and the defense reply
A different report from the Catalan police had reached another reading of the moments before the fall. It held that Isak Andic was standing still when he went over, because his mobile phone was found in his pocket. That detail raised the suspicion that his son pushed him.
The defense disputes that reading. It says the businessman took two steps after being stopped for 39 seconds without harmonic movement, and argues this also supports the view that the fall was accidental. The defense team is led by Cristóbal Martell, and it has maintained from the start that Isak Andic fell by accident on the Collbató path on Dec. 14, 2024.
Why it matters for the case
The defense has cited the mountain unit’s report in its appeal asking the Audiència de Barcelona (the provincial court) to throw out the charge against Jonathan Andic. He was arrested in May as a suspect in his father’s death. He avoided pretrial detention after posting bail of one million euros, which the judge approved at the request of prosecutor Teresa Yoldi.
The testimony therefore bears on two fronts at once: the investigation that remains open in Martorell and the appeal that is pending before the higher court. The mountain officers did not say the fall was an accident. They said their tests could not show what happened.
The driver’s testimony
The businessman’s driver, José Antonio Correa, who accompanied him everywhere, also testified as a witness on Friday. He went to Collbató after the fatal fall. Estefania Knuth, Isak Andic’s partner, asked him to pick her up, and he drove her to the Montserrat area.
According to go.eln.cat, the driver arrived after the fall had happened, so his account concerns what came afterward. The outlet did not report further details of what he told the court.
Source: go.eln.cat
