Last Wednesday, June 7, the legal process began in the Madrid capital in which the flamenco dancer Rafael Amargo faces the request of the Prosecutor’s Office for 9 years in prison for an alleged crime of drug trafficking. Two and a half years ago, the artist was arrested for the aforementioned crime, although he always assured the media that he is an innocent man.
Despite the fact that the trial began two days ago at the Provincial Court of Madrid, the hearing was finally postponed because one of the two defendants appeared without a lawyer. It should be noted that although it was published that Amargo had arrived at the Courts at 9:45 a.m., 45 minutes late, his close entourage denied this information to EuropaPress and stated that the trial was at 10 in the morning and that the press was summoned earlier to create “a bad image of the artist.”
The former contestant of Expedición Imposible will be tried together with the one who was his producer and a partner for allegedly being part of a group that trafficked drugs, especially methamphetamine.
The sale of said substance allegedly took place in the apartment that the artist has in the Madrid neighborhood of Malasaña. Despite the fact that the dancer has denied the facts ad nauseam and has described the accusations and the police action as “very unfair actions”, the Prosecutor’s Office remains firm and requests nine years in prison for him.
A few months ago, the choreographer was arrested again, this time in Alicante, for another alleged crime of drug trafficking. Faced with this arrest, Amargo expressed having felt completely “defenseless” in the face of police brutality and justified having bitten an agent, since they were holding him without explaining anything to him and he was suffering “a physical beating.”
A little over a month ago, the Andalusian sat down with the journalists from Espejo Público and expressed that he was going through a very dark time in his life and that he was being sentenced socially in a very unfair way. In addition, he confessed on the Susanna Griso program that he has been in psychiatric treatment for more than 2 years and that he has thought on more than one occasion about “getting out of the way,” but that he has not done so because he does not want his family to suffer .
Luciana, Rafael Amargo’s current partner, has spoken with the previously mentioned outlet and has confessed that he is very affected by everything that revolves around the trial, but that he is also “in bed, with a cold and ill.” from Granada is going through a delicate moment personally, since his father is seriously ill.
The bailaor is also suffering a lot due to the work stoppage he is experiencing and he does not intend to reach any kind of agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office, since he believes that they want to impose a completely excessive sentence on him.
