The lawyer had summoned Ferran Montón along with his daughters Thais and Thania to an urgent video call to reveal the worst news: “They are going to release the murderer.” When the sisters heard these words, they felt the ground disappear beneath their feet. They did not understand how justice was going to free the man who at the end of 2021 drowned, burned and dismembered his mother, Carmen Ortiz, 57 years old. Their lawyer, Nuria Milà, explained to them the harshness of the law: a person cannot spend more than four years in preventive detention and the judicial procedure to clarify the murder had dragged on so much that that limit was just a few weeks away from being met.
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