"He has fallen down the ravine, I don't know where he is," Jonathan Andic can be heard saying, before shouting, "I'm getting old!"
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NEED TO KNOW
- Phone calls made by Jonathan Andic to the emergency services after his father’s fatal fall have been released by a radio station
- Isak Andic died at 71 while hiking with his son in the mountains near Barcelona, Spain, in December 2024
- Jonathan, 45, was arrested on suspicion of homicide last month
Audio recordings of Jonathan Andic calling emergency services to report his father's fatal fall have been broadcast by a radio station in Spain.
Jonathan is under investigation for allegedly killing his father, Isak Andic, the founder of fashion retailer Mango. The pair were hiking in the Montserrat mountains near Barcelona in December 2024 when Isak, 71, fell to his death.
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Jonathan was arrested on suspicion of homicide last month following a police investigation. The 45-year-old, who stepped down as Mango's vice-chair in the wake of the allegation, described it at the time as "the most serious, unjust and unfounded accusation a person can face."
On Monday, June 15, the Barcelona-based station Catalunya Ràdio broadcast audio, obtained by PEOPLE, of Jonathan crying as he reported his father's fall.
"I need help, my father has fallen!" he's heard saying between sobs. "We are in Collbató, he has fallen down a ravine, please send an ambulance, send someone," in a translation from Spanish.
He tells the operator that they're on their way to the Salnitre Caves, and as the operator asks him more questions, Jonathan says, "I don't see him, he doesn't answer."
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The operator passes the call to the fire department, who ask for confirmation that Jonathan and Isak were together at the time. During another call, a responder on their way to the scene asks Jonathan for his location.
"My father has fallen, I can't see him, he doesn't answer me, he has fallen down the ravine, I don't know where he is," Jonathan can be heard saying, before shouting in frustration, "I'm getting old!"
According to Catalunya Ràdio, the phone call is one of the primary pieces of evidence the defense will provide in the case.
In an interview with the station, Francisco Marco, the director of the detective agency Método 3 — hired by Jonathan's defense last month — said that the phone calls show "the desperation of a son who has lost his father."
The court order includes the calls made to emergency services on the day of Isak's death, and a judge said last month that Jonathan changed his version of how the fall happened.
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After telling emergency services that he thought his father fell down a ravine, that he heard a noise and then saw his father screaming and falling, he later told police that he was walking in front of his father when he saw a body "rolling in the bushes" and heard "a loud bang and a scream" a few seconds later.
The judge's writ also stated that father and son had a tricky relationship, partly due to Jonathan's obsession with money, and noted that WhatsApp messages sent by the son expressed "feelings of hatred, resentment, and thoughts of death, and blaming his father for his situation."
Jonathan was released after posting bail of €1 million (over $1,160,000), reported Spanish newspaper El País.
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However, the judge imposed a ban on Jonathan leaving Spain, ordered the confiscation of his passport, and required him to appear in court every week, the newspaper reported.
PEOPLE reached out to Martorell's Court of First Instance and Investigation No. 5 for comment but did not immediately hear back.