Judge probes whether others were on the trail with Jonathan and Isak Andic the day of the fatal fall
A Spanish judge is investigating whether anyone else was on the Montserrat trail with Jonathan Andic when his father, Mango founder Isak Andic, fell to his death, and has ordered phone records to be analysed.
The investigation widens
The judge in Martorell investigating the death of Mango founder Isak Andic is trying to determine whether third parties were on the Camí de les Feixades trail in Collbató on 14 December 2024. She has requested data from six mobile operators covering the area to check, via connections to cell towers, whether father and son were alone or if others were present, and whether Jonathan Andic had any relationship with them. The judge also wants to know if Jonathan, when he visited the area on 7 and 10 December, days before the joint walk, covered the route all the way to the monastery.
las circunstancias que describe Jonathan no se corresponden
The missing phone
Jonathan Andic claims his iPhone 14 was stolen in Quito, Ecuador, on 25 March 2025, and that he never backed up its contents. Investigators have discovered that the Health app on his phone, which counts steps, stopped recording at 21:25 on 23 March, a day before his trip to Ecuador. The Mossos d'Esquadra find it suspicious that the app stopped just before the alleged theft, and note there is no record of Jonathan having deactivated it on other occasions. The judge has ordered Vodafone to provide call records between 21 and 26 March 2025 to determine whether the phone was used after that time and whether it travelled to Ecuador.
- Jonathan Andic visits the Montserrat trail area for the first time
- Jonathan proposes the joint excursion to his father, five days before the fall
- Jonathan visits the trail area a second time
- Original planned date for the walk, postponed due to a Mango work dinner
- Isak Andic falls from a height of approximately 100 metres on the Camí de les Feixades
- Jonathan makes his first call, to his father's partner Estefanía Knuth, 4:34 after the fall
- Jonathan calls emergency services (112) for the first time
- Health app on Jonathan's iPhone stops recording steps
- Jonathan travels to Ecuador
- Jonathan claims his phone was stolen in Quito
Contradictions in Jonathan's account
Jonathan told police that he and his father regularly went on hikes together. This was contradicted by Isak Andic's household staff, who stated they never went walking together. The Mossos analysed ten years of messages between father and son recovered from Isak's phone and found no reference to any joint excursion except the one on 14 December. The judge also notes that Jonathan said the walk was planned two weeks in advance, but messages show he proposed it on 9 December, five days before the fall. The original plan was for Friday 13 December at 07:15, which the judge notes is still dark in winter; the walk was postponed to Saturday.
The 4-minute-34-second delay
Forensic analysis by the Mossos' Central Informatics Unit pinpointed the time of the fall to between 12:28:20 and 12:28:26 on 14 December 2024. Jonathan Andic waited 4 minutes and 34 seconds before making his first call, which was to his father's partner, Estefanía Knuth, not to emergency services. He called 112 at 12:36:24 and again at 13:13:44. Jonathan said he called Knuth so she could come and pick him up, an explanation the judge finds illogical. He told the operator, between sobs, that his father had fallen into a ravine and pleaded for an ambulance.
My father has fallen, we are in Collbató. I think he fell down a ravine, please send someone, send an ambulance, send someone, please.
The family therapist
The judge has also authorised analysis of Jonathan's communications to determine the possible influence of third parties, specifically the family therapist, Julia L. The Ecuadorian-German therapist treated several Andic family members and specialised in mediating family conflicts among Barcelona's elite. The judge wants phone records of calls and messages between Jonathan and the therapist from 1 to 17 December 2024, to understand how the excursion was arranged and whose idea it was. The therapist previously declined to answer certain questions in a police interview, citing professional secrecy. The judge's earlier detention order noted Jonathan's obsession with money, to the point of pressuring his father to hand over part of his inheritance during his lifetime, a process allegedly encouraged by the therapist.
freudiana la idea de la muerte del padre presente en el tratamiento de la terapeuta
Parallel trial in public opinion
The case has become a textbook example of a parallel trial, with both the Mossos and Jonathan's defence shaping public perception long before any jury is seated. If the case proceeds, nine citizens from Barcelona province will sit on a popular jury to decide Jonathan's fate. He was released after posting bail of one million euros. The defence maintains the fall was accidental and that Isak Andic had stumbled several times before the fatal plunge, while the Mossos point to a possible homicide.
