The Mossos have collected various pieces of evidence against Jonathan Andic for more than a year and a half, accusing him of killing his father, Isak Andic, during a walk in the Montserrat mountains. The court order that decrees his provisional imprisonment under a bail of one million euros, which he has already paid, points to the “accumulation of indications” that suggest his alleged guilt: three previous visits to the Montserrat mountains in the week of the fall, a mobile phone that disappeared under strange circumstances, an unlikely slip, and a change of will. From the investigation so far, the judge considers that there is sufficient evidence pointing to a possible “active and premeditated participation” of the son of the founder of Mango in his father’s death. The order highlights the “bad relationship” between them, “the existence of a possible economic motive,” the “planning and prior study” of the place, and the “attempt to create a situation and specific circumstances as discreet as possible.”
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In total, it points out seven indications against the son of the founder of Mango. The first is the contradictions between the two statements he initially gave to the Mossos, first on December 14 and then on the 31st. Initially, he explained that he was walking four or five meters ahead of his father when he stopped to take some photographs with his mobile phone. That he then did not have it in sight, and while walking he heard some stones fall, turned around and saw “a body rolling among the bushes,” heard a loud bang and a groan of pain from his father. But, in the second statement, he claimed that he saw his father use the mobile phone only at the beginning of the route. The analysis of Isak Andic’s mobile confirmed that he only made a video and took a photograph at the start of the route, and did not use it again. The autopsy also confirmed that he was carrying it in his pocket at the moment of the fall. “It is unlikely if they were walking together that he did not see him fall,” the imprisonment order states.
Another key point is whether Jonathan Andic had done the route before. In his statement, he said he had done the route about two weeks earlier. But the vehicle’s location confirmed that the son of the founder of Mango was in the Montserrat mountains three times before in the same week (on December 7, 8, and 10, and Isak Andic’s fall was on the 14th). This leads the Mossos to think of premeditation in the planning of the alleged homicide.
Likewise, Jonathan Andic said that the relationship between him and his father was good and denied any professional, personal, or family disagreement derived from his father’s failed attempt to leave the company in his hands in 2015. The Mossos, however, have gathered several witnesses who “corroborate” a “crisis” between them due to that conflict. Additionally, the order refers to an “emotional manipulation” by Jonathan towards his father to “achieve his economic goals.” They also state that he had “expressed in his writings feelings of hatred, resentment, ideas of death, and blaming his father for his situation.”
Secondly, the technical reports from the Mossos indicate that there is a “slip marked in yellow” at the place of the fall which they consider requires an “action of rubbing with the sole of the deceased’s sneakers” that must have been carried out “at least four times in both directions (front-back)” for the footprint to be marked in that way. The mountain unit agents consider that it must be done “deliberately exerting pressure on the ground,” and that it cannot be marked “by chance.” They also insist that the path “presents no difficulty” nor requires specific footwear, and that it is only “a fall exposure” at the “specific point where the events occurred.” They also insist that Jonathan “could see the fall without a doubt” because visibility was good and they were walking three or four meters apart.
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As a third element, the order highlights Jonathan’s different versions in Montserrat on the day of the fall. In the first call to emergency services, Andic told the operator of the Medical Emergency System (SEM) that he believed his father had fallen down a ravine. In the next call, when he spoke with the nurse, “he modified the version and told her that he was ahead and suddenly heard the noise of stones and when he turned around he saw him scream and fall.” Before the Mossos, he stated that he “was walking ahead” of his father, and saw “the body rolling among the bushes and heard a loud bang and a groan of pain.”
The Mossos also express their doubts about Jonathan Andic’s phone change, which he made on March 25, 2025. He had an iPhone 14 which he changed for a 16 Pro, “deleting the content” of the old device, which he also lost under “strange circumstances”: stolen on a “lightning trip” to Quito (Ecuador). “The dates of disappearance of the old device coincide with the information given by the media about the reopening of the judicial file,” the order details.
Sixthly, the police highlight the autopsy performed on Isak Andic’s body. The forensic experts determine that the fall is “as if he had slid down a slide, feet first.” “There are no injuries on the palms of the hands, ruling out slipping on a stone or falling forward,” they state.
Finally, they focus on the relationship between father and son. Despite Jonathan Andic’s claim of good rapport, “the analysis of WhatsApp messages shows the opposite.” The main reason for the bad relationship, the Mossos indicate, “is Jonathan Andic’s obsession with money, to the point of asking his father for an inheritance while alive.” Something that Isak Andic “was forced to accept to continue having a relationship with his son.” A decision facilitated by a psychologist, they add, who treated them. They also explain that Jonathan Andic learned “in mid-2024” of his father’s intention to “change the will, creating a foundation to help people in need.” At that moment “a notable change” occurs in Jonathan’s attitude, according to the Mossos, who “intends to reconcile and acknowledges that his attitude towards money is not correct.” The father, they add, in “an attempt to reconcile with his son accepts the excursion” to Montserrat, which he proposes “to talk alone.” The son, the police point out, “has not established” the foundation his father wished to see.
