Carles Porta, the king of true crime: "The lynching was not invented by the networks, in the Middle Ages people were stoned for simple rumours"

In Carles Porta's head (Lleida, 1963) there still persists an idea that was forged in his beginnings as an events journalist in the newspaper

de Lleida: "I have to be very respectful with the photos and with the text because the dead person can be an acquaintance or a relative and I must do the same".

After a few years and become a successful novelist, documentary filmmaker and

, he does not stop repeating it.

Because today his story is that of the king of

and the black chronicle in Spain.

This is demonstrated by the Ondas award for Best Radio Program for

his debut on Amazon Audible with Luis Tosar with

or the premiere of

with four episodes about the crime of the Urban Guard,

Today on Movistar +.

But, when he is told about the

he bursts out laughing.

Does this Carles Porta arise from the local journalist or the special envoy to conflicts? For me there is no school like local crime journalism. There I learned that the dead or wounded person could be someone I know or a family member and hence the respect now in our cases. Is there little respect in Spain in these cases? In our country we do not treat any victim well, we associate it with failure and that is terrible, because they are not to blame for being victims. A raped woman cannot go down the street feeling guilty for having done something, that lady has not done anything, she is a victim, the rapist has the problem. In fact, the neighbors always speak of the murderer as a good person. Forensic Narcís Bardalet always says that the most heinous crimes are committed by the most normal people.

The murderer becomes the protagonist and we want the protagonist to be the facts and the victim to only be a victim. In the case of the Guàrdia Urbana, Pedro Rodríguez's widow and Rosa Peral's husband wrote to us to thank us for the respect in treating the story and the minors. They don't need to, but it shows that you've done well. Have you never been accused of tabloid? No, because we don't judge, we don't adjective and we protect every word and every image. If anyone wants to see dead bodies, don't count on me,

It is not his series, I do not add morbidity, it is not necessary to be yellow. We do not want more audience to put more blood, the story is powerful and what gives you the audience. I want great stories, not a large audience. Are you against publishing photos of corpses? There are photos of corpses but they are treated to minimize. We intuit or suggest more than we teach, we only show what is necessary to understand the crime, we use the three Rs: rigor, respect, and rhythm. These three things are difficult to unite. We spend more time rewriting and editing than writing and editing. We do it five or six times because you always have to reduce and lower. We tell painful things about deaths, but each person puts the line between morbidity and curiosity wherever they want, I try not to cross it. And I think we got it a lot in 24 programs on TV3,140 on radio and 40 on Audible, where there have been no problems. That is our great flag. In Spain we take the word morbid lightly? Of course, the use is lightly and free of charge, talking about death is not morbid and rather they see an episode of Crimes and tell me.

I tell facts in the crudest way possible, but each one places the limits where they want because ethics and morbidity are individual concepts.

Does analyzing cases that have already been tried help in this because there is more time to work? Without a doubt, it allows you to see the official truth of the story and all the versions and you have the perspective of the time that the facts have been left to rest to choose without the urgency of entering in the news at noon, that's what makes people skate or go overboard to fill minutes. Is the lack of time the big problem to justify this type of errors? More information time does not mean better information, filling many minutes or many hours of a topic leads you to tell lies or barbarities. We insist on filling hours of news with crimes that the police or the prosecutor have no information about and we screw it up. If you don't talk so much, you're not so wrong.How do you explain this boom now of the black chronicle or true crime? The black chronicle has been powerful throughout life, but now there is a concentration because the platforms have contributed. Although in Spain there are more well-filmed long reports than

because there is no great story behind it. a good

born from journalism to get closer to the cinema, in Spain the rush and the way of working is making us tell stories with too much journalism and little literature, a lot of television and little cinema. And I think it will be regulated, now there will be a certain boom, then the public will become more demanding and will not accept all the stories There is also the role of networks in public trials or lynchings In networks it is very easy to invent a name and say the barbarities that occur to you like a machine gun. That facilitates low passions, people first write and then think. But now you see cases prior to the time of the networks and the lynchings were already The networks have not invented lynching, in the Middle Ages people were stoned for a rumor. It's the same as life, but in a different way.Perhaps in a broader and more multiplicative way, with public lynchings, but at least people are not stoned. It is part of our way of being, especially in Latin latitudes that are very hot. And how are the citizen groups that are now investigating crimes? As soon as one of our episodes of the Elena Jubany case was broadcast, a sports journalist, a criminal lawyer and a nurse created a group that was later joined by six or seven people and found new witnesses and brought people who did not speak out of the silence. I think it should not be done, the roles in our society are well distributed. We do not investigate to solve crimes, we tell stories that is what the police, prosecutors and judges are for, not journalists or citizens.but at least people aren't stoned. It is part of our way of being, especially in Latin latitudes that are very hot. And how are the citizen groups that are now investigating crimes? As soon as one of our episodes of the Elena Jubany case was broadcast, a sports journalist, a criminal lawyer and a nurse created a group that was later joined by six or seven people and found new witnesses and brought people who did not speak out of the silence. I think it should not be done, the roles in our society are well distributed. We do not investigate to solve crimes, we tell stories that is what the police, prosecutors and judges are for, not journalists or citizens.but at least people aren't stoned. It is part of our way of being, especially in Latin latitudes that are very hot. And how are the citizen groups that are now investigating crimes? As soon as one of our episodes of the Elena Jubany case was broadcast, a sports journalist, a criminal lawyer and a nurse created a group that was later joined by six or seven people and found new witnesses and brought people who did not speak out of the silence. I think it should not be done, the roles in our society are well distributed. We do not investigate to solve crimes, we tell stories that is what the police, prosecutors and judges are for, not journalists or citizens.It is part of our way of being, especially in Latin latitudes that are very hot. And how are the citizen groups that are now investigating crimes? As soon as one of our episodes of the Elena Jubany case was broadcast, a sports journalist, a criminal lawyer and a nurse created a group that was later joined by six or seven people and found new witnesses and brought people who did not speak out of the silence. I think it should not be done, the roles in our society are well distributed. We do not investigate to solve crimes, we tell stories that is what the police, prosecutors and judges are for, not journalists or citizens.It is part of our way of being, especially in Latin latitudes that are very hot. And how are the citizen groups that are now investigating crimes? 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