It is an especially hard moment for María del Monte. The singer and his wife are in the middle of the judicial process for the robbery of their home on August 25, for which there are already 6 people in preventive detention, one of them her nephew, Antonio Tejado, accused of being the “intellectual author.” “of the crime. During the morning of this Friday, the couple testified before the judge of the 16th investigative court in Seville. There, they appeared totally devastated and left some statements to the press, in which they assured that reliving the moment is the worst.
It was early in the morning, shortly before nine in the morning, when the singer arrived at the investigating court number 16 in Seville, accompanied by his wife, Inmaculada Casal. She was hiding behind sunglasses and dressed in beige pants, a white shirt, a brown jacket and a scarf. She appeared with a serious face and arm in arm with her wife. Without a doubt, this is a bad experience for the couple, who was living one of their best moments at the time the robbery occurred.
The artist, apparently calm, assured the media that she will only have to give a statement about what happened the night of the robbery. “We are calm because we come to tell what happened to us, which was something very serious. We are calm as far as possible, because reliving this is very hard,” she told the press, at the doors of the court.
The interpreter of songs like Cántame or Yo soy del sur continues to want to respect the presumption of innocence of the detainees, including her nephew, and noted that she fully trusts in justice. For her part, Tejado was placed in provisional prison without bail on February 12, by order of the Investigating Judge number 16 of Seville, Juan Gutiérrez Casillas. The television collaborator has been identified by investigators as the alleged mastermind of the robbery at his aunt’s house.
The moments after the robbery were one of true panic. This was stated in the past by Inmaculada Casal. “I’m bad, very bad. We’ve been scared for five and a half months. We’ve had a horrible experience that I wouldn’t wish on anyone, the worst of my entire life,” he said on the Andalucía afternoon program on Canal Sur. , where he works as a journalist.
But the truth is that the couple is not the only one who will testify this Friday. Throughout the day, people who were in the artist’s house when the violent assault occurred in the early hours of August 25 will also give their testimony. In the home, in addition to María del Monte and his wife Inmaculada, there were the journalist’s daughter, Teresa, her son-in-law Damián and a domestic worker. All of them will testify before the judge.
