Hunting a Monster (2024) s01e02 Episode Script

1
Okay, come towards the camera and say,
"I'm Lluís Gros, and this is my story."
Okay?
And?
-I didn't
-Okay.
Come towards the camera,
to here, more or less
-Whenever you're ready. Okay.
-Okay?
Good.
I'm Lluís Gros, and this is my story.
I have many stories.
Wait. He needs to take a step back. Okay?
A bit further back. Go on.
There. Okay. Right there. Okay?
I'm Lluís Gros, and this is my story.
Wait, once more. It was too dark.
I'm Lluís Gros,
and this is my story.
Right now, I'm in Montserrat.
Okay, whenever you're ready.
-Hello.
-Hello.
-It's the first time that I've come here.
-Really?
Yeah.
Are you at all religious?
To be honest, I'm here with a man
who's been sentenced to 24 years in prison
for the sexual abuse of several minors,
which include friends of mine.
And since I've known him
since I was a kid,
they've asked me
to try to get him to admit
to his crimes and apologize.
He's already been sentenced, but of course
the victims would appreciate an apology.
I don't want you to tell him any of that,
but you could talk to him
about forgiveness.
Let him reflect on it
because he's a strong believer.
We'll have to see because confession
is something very private.
-Hello, Father.
-Hello.
Look, I haven't come to confess.
I gave my confession here three days ago.
I've brought a boy named Carles.
He's one of those who get baptized,
take communion, and then never come back.
So I've tried
to explain a bit
about our faith, our religion.
Very good. You've done a good deed.
I'm pleased.
They say that whoever converts or brings
a person to the church will be redeemed.
Yes, but of course. I studied theology.
I am a lay theologian.
-At the college.
-Well, you know that better than I do.
-Well, then. Goodbye.
-Thanks.
-At your disposal. Goodbye.
-Goodbye.
-Thank you very much.
-Goodbye.
-What did he tell you?
-No.
He said, "You've done a good deed."
I said, "You have to start at the bottom."
He said, "Yeah."
I said I had studied theology.
He said, "Wow!
You almost know more than me."
I said, "That's not true."
Well, now
Now, I'm going to cheat.
If they give me a ticket,
I'll say I'm here on a pastoral matter.
Then, they'll give me a stamp,
and I won't have to pay for parking.
Come on, Carles.
What's this paper?
It's a traffic ticket.
Give it to me, please.
-Are you going to pay for it?
-Screw them.
Can they forgive all sins?
No, imagine you've violated a sanctuary.
You've stolen the consecrated wafers
and thrown them away.
Then, the chaplain will most likely
tell you to go to the cathedral
with the confessor
because it's a sacrilege
that the chaplain cannot forgive.
Is raping a person also a sacrilege?
No, that's a mortal sin.
Which is worse? Mortal sin or sacrilege?
-What?
-Is mortal sin or sacrilege worse?
Sacrilege.
-It's worse to violate the wafers than
-Yeah, sure.
-than a person?
-Of course.
Because you're violating
Jesus Christ himself.
The bread and wine
are the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
-Understand?
-Yeah.
How did Santiago Segura put it?
"The daughter plays the violin.
"The mother plays the double bass,
and the father plays with her."
Santiago Segura.
You didn't get the joke.
"The daughter plays the violin.
"The mother plays the double bass
and the father plays with her."
The father violates her.
You don't get it.
HUNTING A MONSTER
He rapes her!
CHAPTER 2
BAD EDUCATION
Why did you move to Sant Quirze?
Because I'd been going
I'd been going there since I was 16.
The parish had
I rented a house to run a summer camp.
Is that the summer camp
the guy at the restaurant
in the market was talking about?
Yeah. Yeah.
What an asshole.
Because I had to go to a psychologist
and say, "That boy was my fan."
And he had read all the shit that came out
about me in the newspapers,
and was
so disillusioned.
That's what the psychologist says.
I don't even want to think about it.
No, but what the boy said, I think,
was that you brought him to the camp
and something happened there.
I don't even remember.
Because that guy has to be 46.
He's not a child. Well.
No, he's not.
So Sant Quirze is where
those regrettable events occurred,
so to speak.
Can you tell me how you met Lluís?
Yeah, well, Lluís came to the school
where I was studying Education
at Puig Coca School
in Esplugues de Llobregat.
He came in
as a history teacher and principal.
As a teacher, Lluís always made
inappropriate comments in class,
inappropriate glances.
He was always looking
for a complicit reaction from the group.
-We were
-It was well-known. It was obvious
Yeah, totally,
because of course to us it was funny.
To us
It hurts to say it now,
but whenever a girl in class
went up to the blackboard,
Lluís would stare at her ass,
and then at the class
to see how we'd react.
It was no secret.
What happened to me didn't occur
when he was my teacher.
One day, he called and spoke to my mom.
"Hello, is this Amparo?" and so on.
"I've got a summer camp
and I'm going to take"
And we came here to Sant Quirze,
and he showed me the house.
It's over there.
We got to Sant Quirze.
We got to the house,
and, well, he'd acted normal until then.
"How are you doing in school this year?"
and so on.
But when we got here, it changed
His behavior changed a bit.
We went into the house,
and then he got straight to it.
He'd said he'd show me the house,
but the only thing he showed me
was the room he put me in.
This could be the house, definitely.
I'd say it was this one.
REGIONAL POLICE RECORD
SANT QUIRZE HOUSE
An adult and a child in a house
in the middle of nowhere,
I didn't even know where I was,
locked up in a room.
The only thing I could think was,
"The only way out of here is with him.
"In his car again."
I didn't have a cell phone.
There was no sense in running away.
If I run away, where do I go?
"There's nobody around.
There's nothing but trees."
He suggested we get in bed together.
REGIONAL POLICE RECORD
SANT QUIRZE HOUSE
I didn't know how to react.
I thought, "If he's able
to get me here and do this,
how far could he take this?"
That's when I started to make up excuses
and I managed to get out
with my dignity, alive, and in one piece.
He put me on the bed,
but I managed
to leave in a more or less
dignified way.
My approach was, "I have to make sure
this man doesn't get angry
"because he has to take me home."
It's really sad.
Imagine his confidence
when we left Sant Quirze,
where, as I told you,
I left in one piece with my dignity
because I think I acted intelligently,
with a cool head and intelligence.
He dropped me off at home.
And he called up to my mom,
"Amparo, Álex is coming up!"
It was as if nothing had happened.
The risk of him dropping me at home
and me telling someone what happened
never crossed his mind.
Because if it had, he would've killed me
and thrown me in a ditch.
Me or someone else.
But he had the nerve to drop me off,
go back home,
and act like nothing had happened.
I spent the whole way back
wondering whether
I should say something or not.
It was my word against the principal's.
Would anyone believe me?
And I don't wish him any harm.
I just want him to pay for what he's done.
Nothing more, nothing less.
He should be in jail.
If he has to live out
his final days in jail, so be it.
The lawsuit includes allegations
from 2007 and 2011.
And now we've found a case from the '80s.
I don't think it's unreasonable
to believe that between them,
there have been more cases.
Now the plan is to gather
all the info we have about Lluís
and try to contact
as many people as we can.
I started out as a teacher
at the same school I had attended,
the Sant Just parish school.
Then I moved to Cornellà.
Carles, he's talking about
all the schools he worked at,
and there seem to be a lot of them.
Make a list, and then we'll try to contact
the schools' alumni associations.
And if he worked at cinemas,
make a note of that, too.
-Let's try to contact the ex-employees.
-Okay.
After Cornellà,
I went to teach at Sant Feliu.
And from Sant Feliu,
I ended up in Esplugues de Llobregat.
We've been filming Lluís
for about four months,
and his legal status
hasn't changed at all.
-Everything is the same.
-Everything is the same.
I asked him about that recently,
and he said
Do you think, in the end,
with all the medical reports,
that they'll make you go to jail?
No.
-You don't think you'll go to jail?
-No.
Are you sure or not?
I've already told you no. It's impossible.
I have hydrocephalus.
How can a person with hydrocephalus
go to jail?
But, is he dying of that? Is it fatal?
I'll call my sister.
She's a nurse. She can tell us.
Helena, I'm with the team
working on the Lluís' case.
He says he can't go to jail
because he has hydrocephalus.
Is it serious?
It's an accumulation of liquid
in the brain.
If it's treated and the liquid is removed,
it is not a serious illness.
Well, I'm dead. I'm dead!
All damn day with this.
He's acting like
it's sending him to his grave.
No, it's treatable.
The liquid can be removed.
It's not serious. It's something simple.
-You have the forensic exam on the 30th.
-Yeah, but I'll skip it.
-You're not going?
-If I have this, how can I go?
Do you know why they want a forensic exam?
To put me in prison.
To prove those false witnesses right?
Up theirs!
They drain out
the accumulated liquid and voila!
I was talking to my sister, and she said
not to worry about the hydrocephalus.
-It's treatable.
-No, it's not treatable.
He's using it as an excuse
to stay out of jail.
Well, if he is using hydrocephalus
as an excuse, he will go to jail.
How are you?
I'll tell you. Hold on.
Record and let's talk.
Whenever you're ready.
We're at the Sant Just Desvern
municipal cemetery.
Good morning.
These are families from the town.
I can't say if one is better than another.
A former student of mine, too.
In the name of the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit.
Heck, where was it? Did I get lost?
Here are my mother's remains.
My mother still lives.
She lives on.
Even after her body perished,
her soul lives on.
Mom, good morning.
I also want to put
a photo.
This is my mom.
Mom, we're going
to say the Our Father prayer.
Our Father, who art in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy name.
Can you tell me
what you remember about your mom?
I lived with her my whole life.
Of her three kids, I wasn't the best.
I was the one who lived with her longest.
She was a local woman.
From this town. Everyone loved her.
I wish
I could have
a little of her love for others.
I wish I could emulate her
in everything she did.
How do you think they'll remember you
after you're dead?
-What?
-How do you think they'll remember you?
I don't know. That depends on them.
I want them to remember me
as a good person.
Now, I don't know about that anymore.
-Do you think you'll go to Heaven?
-I want to.
That depends on God.
I know people here who've behaved badly.
But you can't hold it against them.
Only God can judge you.
Not a judge from some court. Only God.
Carles!
Come here.
Carles! Let's go.
Thanks for contacting Eliminalia,
leader in the deletion
of unwanted material on the Internet.
-Hello?
-Hello there.
Yes, Lluís, how are you?
Your request arrived a few weeks ago.
We've been slow to respond
because it's a complicated case.
It's a case Well, I'm sure you know
what kind of news is out there.
-There's also more recent news
-No! No!
Listen, that's from 2019.
Legally, until enough time has passed
And anyway, all I can say is that
the only thing we could do is
if you turned out to be innocent
or the case were dismissed,
then we could work on it.
But you've been found guilty,
so there's nothing we can do.
Honestly speaking, Lluís,
it's not a viable case for us.
Lluís?
Hello?
Hi, Carles, how are you?
It's Max from the cinema.
Listen.
I talked to a guy
who I think should talk to you
because he could tell you
some things about Lluís.
If you want, I'll give you his number
and you guys can meet or whatever. Okay?
It was in the mid '90s
when I transitioned
from elementary to high school,
And it was through a friend
who had movie posters in his house.
I asked him, "Where did you get those?"
And he told me he worked at the cinema,
and that's when he introduced me to Lluís.
So I went there with five friends
a week or two later, I'm not sure.
And Lluís let us watch a movie
and he took me to a
a more secluded part of the cinema.
He started touching me,
asking me if I masturbated,
if I wanted to watch a porn movie
and masturbate in front of him,
he'd pay more
than what I'd get for distributing flyers.
So I started to masturbate.
I had a total mental block after that.
I only remember a
a window at the top part of the cinema.
That, according to the psychologists,
was my way of detaching myself
from the situation.
And
And what I do remember is that the movie
my friends were watching had finished
because when I came out, they'd been
looking around for me for a while.
He told me to tell my friends
that I'd been helping him
move some tools, some movie stuff.
That was my experience with Lluís.
Later, I started to feel really bad, like,
"What just happened?"
I didn't understand.
I never had any contact with him again.
That was the second time
you had met Lluís.
Correct. Yes.
The first was the day
I distributed flyers.
The second was when he molested me,
when I went with my friends,
and he took me to that area.
-When did you tell someone about this?
-When I was 30.
Can you tell me where this self-blame
you've described came from?
Because, from the outside,
you didn't do anything wrong.
-Yeah.
-Why did you feel bad?
You're a ten-year-old boy,
and sex isn't something
you've figured out yet,
and you've done something sexual
that made you feel uncomfortable.
So
It's like, "Why did I do that?
"Why did I let that person do that?"
So the guilt comes from thinking,
"I didn't stop it.
"It's bad. It's, like, if it gets out,
"what will my family think
if they find out I let him touch me?
"What will my friends think?
"He did what he wanted with you,
and it was your fault."
That's something that
I struggled to deal with as an adult.
To say, "Enough, it's not your fault."
You were just a kid who wanted
a poster and to go to the movies.
When you passed by the cinema and saw him,
what went through your mind?
Anxiety. I
Really, mentally, I've had times when
especially during adolescence,
until I was in my 20s,
when I felt extreme distress
and I have, well, had, at the time,
imagined closing all the doors
to La Calàndria and setting it on fire.
That was a recurring thought
during my adolescence.
And I can tell you that there were times
when my anxiety
and distress were so intense
that I wished he would burn
with the cinema.
Hateful thoughts and Well, distress.
But that's how it was then.
It's true I'd like to go back
as an adult where I was more in control.
Why do you want to go back?
Because it's a place
I think of as hostile,
so I think it would be
more of a healing
experience to deal
with all the distress it has caused.
-Would you like to go now?
-Let's go.
CLOSED
-How are you?
-Hi, how is it going?
-Go ahead.
-Come in.
I If you could leave me alone
for a minute
-Sure.
-Yes, of course.
We have the cases
from the El Masnou ruling.
In the '80s, there was Álex
in Sant Quirze.
In the '90s, there was Ángel in El Masnou.
With all these cases,
Lluís is still living a normal life.
What do you do with him when you meet?
He lives the life of an ordinary old man.
I mean, buying groceries, strolling
through the town, going to the movies
It's full of people.
Look at how many people have come today.
People want to go out. I'm sorry.
I'm leaving it here.
You can't park here.
Yeah, well, cars don't come by here.
It's fine.
Whenever you're ready.
-Whenever you're ready.
-Okay.
We're going to watch the movie of my life.
Cinema is a world of its own.
The first film,
the one closest to my heart
that I showed when they taught me how
to project 35mm film, which I didn't know,
was the movie Born Free.
For so many years
For so many years, Carles
I love it.
It restores me. It makes me feel alive.
You told me Almodóvar came
to El Masnou to make a movie.
Do you remember which one?
Yeah. Bad Education.
Can you tell me what it's about?
It's about pederasty in the Church.
There are some children
who speak out about it.
And these children grow up
and meet with the priest
who, supposedly,
had inappropriate relations with them.
It's a very unpleasant film.
Carles, to your health.
Well! Shit! Can't you see, man?
These scooters are a pain in the ass.
But he had the right of way.
You're the one who pulled out.
Yeah, well, whatever
How do you feel?
Good. Well, unwell.
I'm very ill.
-Your lawyer is calling. Should I get it?
-Yeah.
Hello?
-Mr. Gros.
-Yes, hello.
You called me, didn't you?
I did because you said you would call me.
-Right now, I'm
-Yes.
I've just been picked up
from the hospital again.
-I have to be at the hospital every day.
-All right.
Are you available next week or
Yes.
Let's meet one day next week,
a day that you're not seeing the doctor
Sure! When I don't have anything
because every
Listen, it's just that
Yes. Let's fix a time.
Let me know.
Let's fix a time one day next week
-that you're free, and we'll meet.
-Okay.
-Have a nice afternoon.
-All right. Okay.
Goodbye. Have a nice afternoon. Bye.
-in physical education.
-Or races in
-Did you hang up?
-Yeah, I did.
-Why did you lie to him?
-Man!
Why did I lie to him? What did I say?
Because I said Listen, yesterday
I was at the doctor's all afternoon.
You said you're leaving the hospital.
Yeah, man, sure.
-So he doesn't think I'm out for a stroll.
-But we've come from the cinema.
-I can't tell him that!
-Why not?
Because I can't! Carles, you're crazy.
That's the man who deals with
the court and the forensic scientists,
which I don't give a damn about.
What do I have in my life?
A team of doctors
who theoretically want to heal me
or improve my quality of life because
there are things that can't be cured.
But the other doctors,
those disgraceful forensic scientists
just want to prove
that I'm fit to go to jail!
-They can fuck off, man!
-The call is still connected.
What? Hang up, then.
Just kidding.
-It was a joke.
-Don't mess with me.
Lluís says he's really ill,
but he doesn't seem like
he looks after himself
because he barely sleeps, eats terribly.
He was stuffing himself with fig bread
in Montserrat.
Fig bread.
I can't eat it
because it has a lot of sugar.
It's bad for diabetes.
And in all the time I've spent with him,
I've never seen him cook,
so, everything is precooked or junk food.
I was in the hospital since I don't know
what day in December.
I told them "Listen, when I get out
of here, I'm going to eat KFC
"which is what I call chicken."
I got diarrhea which I rarely
We all get it sometimes.
He frequently doesn't even take his pills.
I'm not going to take any pills today.
I'm sorry.
How did it go the other day
with the lawyer?
When we went to the cinema,
he called you to fix a meeting.
I don't want to.
All I can focus on is my illness.
I think he's a hypocrite
because what he should do
is compensate the victims and go to jail.
That's his duty as there's been a ruling.
One victim should get 10,000 euros,
another 30,000 euros
Have you received anything?
Nothing. I have no idea if I'm entitled
to it or not, or whether I'll get it.
-You haven't received anything for sure.
-No.
Despite this, his daily life consists
of praying, praying all day long.
Look here.
He uses religion to exonerate himself
of the crimes he has committed.
He sees himself as a victim,
or rather that's the impression
he wants to give us.
The impression that he's being
unjustly persecuted.
"It was good for me to be afflicted
"so that I might learn your decrees.
"The law from your mouth is more precious
than thousands of silver and gold pieces.
"Everyone fights against me.
All their plans are against me.
"They spy on me from a corner
to hurt me and they follow me.
"Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens."
-Come in.
-Hi, good morning.
-Good morning.
-Good morning.
Did you oversleep?
-What?
-Did you oversleep or did you forget?
-No, I went to bed late.
-Okay.
I just came out of the bathroom.
I was showering and I said, "Shit!
That guy is going to call me."
I went to bed really late last night.
You have letters you need to pick up
at the post office.
-Do you know what they are?
-No.
Taxes, fines
-Aren't you going to get them?
-No.
You're making me nervous.
Carles, wait, I have a problem
with my credit card.
No, I don't. You know what's wrong?
It was all in my mother's name.
-Okay.
-And we
My mother died and I was authorized
Let's see. Where's that ticket? Here, see.
-Yes, 6.76.
-Six and seventy-six. Let me take this.
Wait, I'll pay by card.
-Have you paid for this?
-Yes.
-Okay. Shall we go, Carles?
-Let's go.
Let's see what we can do about this now.
Listen, a friend gave me this card.
It's in his name.
-Okay.
-I don't know, but I can't get any money.
It's in a woman's name.
I can't give you the PIN or help you
if it's in another person's name.
-Then I
-Whose card is this?
Cristian's girlfriend's.
-Why have you put your money in it?
-Because I have.
-Let's see what it says. Maybe 20 euros.
-Okay.
-"Enter PIN."
-Yes.
-It's exceeded I don't know what
-The available balance.
It says you have no balance.
-There's no money.
-No.
Okay.
What the fuck?
Imagine that. Not even six euros
to pay for medicine.
This Cristian Who is he?
A proxy of mine.
Isn't he picking up?
Why do you have a proxy?
-Doesn't that complicate things?
-No.
It's because
I had it in Banco Sabadell,
and we withdrew it.
I authorized Cristian to withdraw it
from Banco Sabadell
and deposit it in La Caixa.
And he gave me a card
that had his girlfriend's name on it.
Because, of course, my mom didn't
She couldn't sign anymore.
And then she died.
It's so shitty.
I don't understand why you don't have
an account in your name and Cristian
That's because of something
the lawyers told me.
Basically, you get the money.
Cristian takes it out, and puts it
in an account in his girlfriend's name,
but it's actually yours.
And I can withdraw money
from this account, but shit, I'm broke.
He says, "Going to La Caixa on Monday
to sign for and activate the credit line."
But I need to eat tonight. Damn it!
Have you considered that
he might keep the money?
-Couldn't he keep the money?
-No, since he sends me all the statements.
-But, are you sure?
-Motherfucker! No, not that.
Tomorrow, I'm going to talk to Sabadell,
and that's it.
Don't you have money or has Cristian
No, now I don't. I can't access it!
I have no money!
But that's because
Cristian hasn't deposited it.
-You do have money.
-No, I have no money. It has run out!
What are you arguing about?
We're not arguing.
Look, Cristian, I shit on God!
And I'm a religious man!
I've fucking had it with you talking
to me about those people from Arbós!
The one time I go there!
And they let me sleep
in their house for free!
If I give them 40 euros or 20 euros
for gas, it's no big deal!
You think it's every week!
How do you know?
How can you check that?
Are you an idiot or what? Listen!
We need to talk! Starting next month,
you're no longer my proxy!
We'll go to the notary,
wipe the slate clean, and to hell with it.
Man! Listen!
A former employee of mine
Last year,
on Holy Week last year, imagine that.
He said, "Come to my house."
He had a room for me there, a guest room.
Listen to me.
"Lluís, can you give me 40 euros for gas?"
Listen, that's the least I can do, right?
And now he's throwing it in my face?
I should've kept my fucking mouth shut.
Okay.
Wouldn't it be better for you
to have your own bank account?
I'm going to tell you why.
I'll tell you why.
I've told you, but you don't get it.
The lady lawyer and the attorney
told me,
"Make yourself a"
They said, "No, no way. We won't end
things badly. I don't see it that way."
Man, I do see it that way.
Let's see.
When the conviction was handed down,
I didn't agree. "I don't agree!"
"I'm not having any forensic tests!
They should have done them before.
"If they want them now, I won't go!
"And if they convict me"
This is what I told the lawyers.
"I'll run away!
"I'll disappear from here."
Well, then they said, "Think about it.
"If they issue an arrest warrant,
the first thing they'll do is
"to block off boats and airports."
-That's what the lawyers said.
-Yes.
"As lawyers, we can't break the law.
"If you flee, you will be condemned
"but we'll give you some advice.
"If you go in this car or another car
with another license plate,
"and you use your credit card
to get gas in Salamanca,
"the police will track
your bank transactions.
"If they catch you in Salamanca,
they'll put you in a cell,
"they'll come to get you
and take you straight to prison."
That's why Cristian told me,
"Lluís
"take out your money
"under my girlfriend's name.
"What you get in your mom's account,
"when it arrives, we'll leave just enough
"there to pay the household bills,
"the car payment I'm paying, etc.
"I'll take the rest.
"You can spend it through my account
"and I'll deduct it from that."
Get it? Really and truly? Well, that's it.
Shit. Everything is so complicated.
He'll answer when he wants to,
but he needs to fix it.
Look, I've got something here.
Let's see.
Search here, please. Here.
Look for the ones that
are tied with rubber bands.
-Look. Here they are.
-Those aren't the ones.
What are these?
No, this is from
These are from the summer camps.
From the summer camps
I think I have Cristian's number.
-I'm calling.
-Okay.
Hello, Cristian!
-Hello?
-Hi. Can you hear me?
-Yes, hi.
-Hi, I'm Carles Tamayo.
I'm making a documentary about Lluís Gros.
Look, I don't care.
I'd like to meet with you to talk,
if you have
-He hung up on me.
-Yeah?
You've reached the voicemail of
No.
I've discovered something.
If you look on the back here,
there are names,
and I've found several of those people,
and I've found victims
from the '60s and '70s
in Sant Just Desvern,
at the Núria Parish School.
Lluís gave me these photos
and I saw that he had written "Roig."
-I guess Roig is you.
-Yes, that's me.
That's me and those were
my classmates and
-They're summer camp photos, right?
-Correct. Yeah, they're from summer camp.
-Is that him?
-Yes.
There were also rumors that
he wanted to be a monk.
Whether he quit or was kicked out,
I don't know.
Lluís took this photo.
-Yes.
-That's the parish.
-You met Lluís at the Núria School.
-Yes.
I don't quite remember how old I was,
but I met him
Well, Lluís Gros was the P.E. teacher.
-Did you go to summer camp?
-No, I didn't. Thank God.
When one of my friends told me
he was going to that camp,
I got a knot in my stomach.
I didn't say anything
because what could I say?
What happened with Lluís?
We went out on a playground that was
a bit far from the school.
And when we were about to leave,
he said to someone,
"Come here. I have to tell you something."
Of course with all the authority
a teacher has over a seven-year-old kid
"Look, whatever, they're saying
"I don't know if you've heard,
but we should know
"They're saying that there's
a child who's a pervert and whatever."
And the whole time, he had slid
his hand down and molested you.
Groping your testicles and whatnot.
He'd come up next to you
and asked personal things.
Questions that you didn't
At that age, you didn't understand
what he was asking.
If I spied on my sisters,
if I've seen them naked, if
He'd start by putting his hand
down my pants.
He'd touch and ask
He'd touch to see
if I had an erection or not.
Later, you heard that one day he took
a girl and cornered her
in the gym equipment room.
He told her to undress, to show him
her breasts, to let him touch her and
He had the keys to the Núria School.
He took me out of the parish
and over to the Núria School.
We went into a classroom,
and he made me touch him.
Yeah, look. This building was the school.
Well, now it's new,
but they've preserved the facade.
This door is different, but this is where
the first playground was.
When we came out onto the playground
there, we'd come through there,
and that's where Lluís Gros would sit
He'd call out to one of his preys,
one of the children
to go and touch him and so on.
That's what I remember him doing to me.
Did you report him to another teacher
or a supervisor?
A commission was formed about a complaint
made by the oldest students in the school.
Then the school paid attention
and an inspector came and did a series
of interviews with everyone.
If I remember correctly, there were eight
or nine of us who went to the commission
to report Lluís
because we'd been assaulted.
I couldn't imagine that there were boys.
I thought they'd all be girls.
And after the commission at Núria School,
did he remain involved in the parish?
He was always with the parish.
He was always friends with all the priests
who came to the church. Always.
I don't know what they did at the school.
They might have forced us
not to say anything
about what happened in the school.
I, obviously, don't remember
my parents knowing anything about it.
That's the truth.
That's what I was worried about.
I know the other teachers knew
about that man's attitude.
There was a tendency not to talk about it
and to cover it up.
But that man, as you've said,
kept working.
He stayed in the parish.
In the parish, no less!
That's how things were
and that's how they stayed.
That's the doorway to the playground,
and there on the left
is where they kept the vaulting box
and the gym equipment.
We asked the parish for permission
to film the playground.
-If you want, I'll read you their reply.
-I can already imagine.
-What do you imagine?
-Well, man, any sort of excuse to say no.
-Should I read you the email?
-Okay.
"I've evaluated your request and read
"the proposed contract
to authorize filming.
"After consulting with others, it is not
deemed appropriate to accept your request.
"The parish should stay out
of this documentary.
"Sorry for the inconvenience.
Best regards."
If the parish needs
to stay away from a guy
who spent years and years linked
to the parish at the highest levels
Doing the readings, leading the songs,
running the parish cinema,
doing half of the work of the parish
Tell me what reason
do they have to stay out of it.
-That's what I say.
-It's insane.
They've taken a clear stance.
They want to bury it, make it disappear.
It was as if nothing ever happened.
There aren't just the cases
involved in the ruling in 2007 and 2011.
We've also found cases
from ten years earlier, in the '90s.
Cases from the '80s,
and now cases from the '70s.
And at this point, in the mid '70s,
there was an investigation
that seems to have been useless
because, clearly,
Lluís is no brilliant criminal mastermind.
He's not an evil genius.
If he's managed to go
so long with such impunity,
it's due to a system that's protected him.
There were people who found out
and did nothing about it.
Because if Lluís had been stopped here,
none of this would've happened.
All this suffering would have been avoided
and everything would've stopped here
in Sant Just.
-Excuse me, who are you looking for?
-Hi. For Lluís.
I don't think he's in.
Well, we've agreed to meet here now.
I'm calling, but he's not picking up.
He stood me up.
CARLES TAMAYO
Lluís, where are you?
I'm killing time near your house
Okay, I'm filming.
I'm on the phone
with the lawyer of one of the victims.
Can you repeat what you told me?
An arrest warrant
has been issued for Lluís.
I told you that I'm in Sant Just.
He and I had agreed to meet here today.
And I've been calling him for two hours.
He's not at home, and he's not picking up.
I'm pretty sure he's not here anymore.
Keep calling, and if you find anything,
you have to tell me.
-Lluís?
-Hi.
Lluís, how are you?
Well, I'm having a massive dilemma.
Why? What's happened?
Yesterday, the lawyer sent me a note:
"Mr. Gros, I regret to inform you that
the presiding" That's what it says.
"We are issuing an arrest warrant
for this gentleman."
The presiding judge can go fuck himself!
Let the whole army come for me.
They won't find me at home.
They've declared war on me.
I'll declare war on them.
-Can you hear me?
-Yeah, but I'm a bit confused.
Well, I'm more confused than you.
-Where are you now?
-I'm just outside Sant Just.
And they're still telling me
to not threaten any witnesses?
If I see one, I'll kill him.
If I don't kill myself first
Because this calls for suicide.
Well. Okay.
Lluís?
I'll see you around, Carles.