The flamenco dancer Rafael Amargo has become one of the most media characters of 2023. At the beginning of November, the authorities arrested the artist from Granada and placed him in the Soto del Real prison due to flight risk.
The Police arrested the dancer due to a “repeated breach” of the obligation to sign in court for an alleged crime against public health. Although he always declared himself ”innocent”, the agents acted in accordance with the law.
According to what the father of the protagonist told the media, Amargo stopped going to sign in court due to the great media pressure that this action entailed. It should be said that it never occurred to the man that missing said appointment would cost him jail time, since he thought that the consequences would be limited to having to pay a fine.
Now, the dancer has sent a public statement through a letter he sent to the Mediaset España program Fiesta, writing in which he once again reiterates that he is “innocent” and that a brutal mistake is being made with his case.
“I am tired of saying that I am innocent, but time will tell because I trust that Justice will prove me right. In these three years I dedicated myself to completing a master’s degree in mental health. I have not been able to submit my thesis because this accident occurred where I find myself,” declared the artist in the writing in which he claims to have tried to settle down during the last three years.
“Slow justice is the greatest injustice that exists. They say that the greatest defense is an attack. My previous lawyers have known this firsthand, they have even suffered it with me, but they have never wanted to report anything. These doubts encouraged me to have the bravery to change lawyers,” stated Amargo, thus clearing up doubts about the change of lawyer.
The former Impossible Expedition contestant explained in the letter (which is more than ten pages long) that he is spending a very difficult few weeks in prison and that he is in a desperate situation.
“There is free abuse towards me, towards my family and towards my career and towards perhaps not wanting to pose like a circus lion. Rocío Jurado already said it: ‘I am an artist, not a gossip’. So no exclusives or things as they say. What was said remains in these words,” he expressed in the text he sent to Emma García’s program seeking help publicly.
