Criminal investigation and death have always been seductive, although we observe them out of the corner of our eye, out of the corner of our eye. The matter, however, is experiencing a spectacular boom in recent times, perhaps due to technical advances in legal medicine and the sophistication of the mental mechanisms that can induce crime. The point is that Narcís Bardalet, one of the most renowned forensic experts in the country, is becoming a star, to the point that her experiences not only star in two recent books, written by journalists Tura Soler (‘Rigor mortis’, La Campana) and Clàudia Pujol (‘The most impactful cases of forensic Narcís Bardalet’ , Ara Llibres), but also a documentary series on TV3 together with reporter Manel Alías. Bardalet has the pull of a media animal. Already retired, the years have left him the mark of a great reserve; He looks like a cross between Grissom from ‘CSI Las Vegas’ and Lieutenant Columbo.
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Since he began to practice, when the DNA technique had not yet been developed and the Civil Guard made the reports using Olivetti and carbon paper, Bardalet kept a kind of diary where he made a priceless entry on January 24, 1989, the date on which he was responsible for carrying out the embalming of Salvador Dalí in the Galatea Tower in Figueres. Aware that he was facing the most important case of his life, even though he treated the body with great delicacy, he wanted to sign the autopsy by inserting a small ampoule of penicillin into the painter’s left femur, well hidden and empty of liquid, where he had inserted a small piece of paper. with his name and that of another coroner who had assisted him in the tasks, Rogelio Lacaci Díaz. A small rebellion, the audacity that death transcends death itself; He also insisted that the genius’s mustaches descend into the grave defiantly marking ten past ten. Who was going to tell her that after 30 years she would have to exhume the mummy after a clairvoyant filed a lawsuit to have her recognized as Dalí’s daughter (a tall tale).
Sense of humor
As time goes by, one can become a cynic or, on the contrary, put up with the guy with a certain sense of humor, very fine in the case of Bardalet, whose gaze has also been imbued with depth by contact. constant with the lady of the scythe. In Tura Soler’s book, the doctor reflects on the moment when the ape becomes a human. Not when he stands up and learns to walk or when he develops the ability to communicate, he reasons, but at the exact moment when, in front of the corpse of a fellow human being, he feels a shudder and needs to bury it, keep a memory of it; know where he will remain to profess respect.