Three Ordinary Men, One Kidnapping and Too Many Mistakes: Thus Reinterprets ‘per Hundred Million’ the Quini Case

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In March 1981, Spain was left in the dark: footballer Enrique Castro ‘Quini’, former player of Sporting de Gijón and then at FC Barcelona, had been kidnapped. But what seemed like a case typical of a criminal thriller, actually hid a more unusual story: that of three men with no criminal experience, overwhelmed by their economic problems, who improvised a kidnapping without measuring its consequences. That origin marks the tone of Per hundred mi…