“Because no one warned us What was going on in that horseback ride?” asks the father of one of the seven children who, as a prisoner of frustration, reported Lluís PG to ‘Luixi’, the owner of an equestrian centre, for sexual assault. Arenys de Munt (Maresme). El Periódico de Catalunya from the Prensa Ibérica group spoke with new victims and witnesses. L’Espiga’s Natural Equestrian Center: A “sect” catching many adolescents suffering for seven years violations, beatings, abuse and even labor exploitation while being silenced by a abuser they “idealized”. Seven years without any government intervention.
“This guy can’t be with kids or animals,” says another source closely affiliated with the center in recent years, who witnessed how he recruited adolescent students aged 12 to 16 and offered them to be a part of his project. “He punched them in the shoulders and knelt on their hips. He yelled at them, insulted them and said they were worthless. I saw him throw stones at a girl,” she says.
Luixi told parents who came to L’Espiga that it was a natural dressage centre, a place where their children would learn to ride, keeping the health of the horses at the forefront. But the truth is that Luixi has also emptied her angry character with the animals she has given. “fist” or “whip”. Sam, a dog with whom he appears to have been photographed together on social networks, died of drowning because he left her locked in a car in the middle of summer. “Buried inside the farm like some horses,” various testimonies say.
manipulation
Luixi deceived the families by saying that the girls had wood for upbringing and that they should get involved and come to the farm more often. In return for their help, riding lessons became free. The parents swallowed the tale of the naturalist center and believed that it would be positive for their education. “How did we know that wasn’t true?” One of them wonders again and again, knowing that the tamer who was devoted and fawning when alone with Luixi’s daughter was a pedophile.
“Luixi isolated and assimilated the victims who lived for and for L’Espiga. And if they saw them interacting with other people, they would be pissed off,” explains one witness. “After screaming, beatings, and insults, Luixi would approach the girls and look for them. “queens” And he told them to understand that he was doing everything for their own good, that it was shock therapy so they could ride better later on,” he says. They believed this and remained silent.
There were minors coming almost every afternoon during the week, on weekends and in the summer, to take lessons and help the horses. So Luixi created for him a rotating staff of observers who worked for him free and without contract: they cleaned the stables, fed and washed the animals, and even tutored the much younger students at the centre. After Luixi was arrested by the police, the families Mossos d’Esquadra HE 11 April and then a court-ordered incarceration at Arenys de Mar. 14 AprilGradually, they realize that this man risks blaming themselves for 4-5 year old students who may have had an accident with the horse.
big lie
Opened in Arenys de Munt in 2017, L’Espiga was founded by several partners, but soon fell into the hands of Luixi, who lived in a trailer on a suburban estate. Posing as an animal trainer – he even received an entrepreneurial award from the municipality – he exercised absolute control over the adolescents he raped in many cases, according to complaints. Sexual abuse in that trailer, in the center’s locker rooms, in the car. It is likely that minors and children will emerge in the coming days, accusing Luixi of inflicting physical and psychological violence on them, as well as increasing complaints and sexual crimes.
“We were stunned by what we learned little by little,” says the mayor of Arenys de Munt. Josep Sanchez, emphasizes that the City Council does not suspect anything and that the center has obtained permission for its activity. However, other sources confirm that, along with the attacks, it is clear that Luixi lived illegally: he resold billless horses, collected black wages, was persecuted for property, there was no equestrian federation or even non-existent. Required training to teach riding. “We knew he was a ‘mafia’ and owed money to people,” Sánchez admits, “but we didn’t know what he was doing to minors,” insists.
Rumors about Luixi have started to spread in the municipality in recent years, but with no one to report it, L’Espiga continued to take students until a family left for Mossos on April 10. Had it not been for that first complaint, the others would not have come and the center would have remained open. The father this newspaper spoke to cannot explain how so many things failed and why he was allowed to put his daughter in the hands of a monster.