Rafael Amargo has just left the Soto del Real prison in Madrid. This morning, the last session of the trial against the artist, accused of an alleged crime of drug trafficking, was held at his home in the capital. Against all odds, the court of the Provincial Court of Madrid decided to release him provisionally without precautionary measures until the sentence is handed down.
After testifying in the judicial process, the choreographer had to return to the Madrid prison to collect his belongings and make his release from prison official. Around seven in the afternoon on April 12, Rafael Amargo left Soto del Real accompanied by his lawyer, Marcos García Montes, and his wife, Luciana.
Numerous media outlets were waiting for him there to collect the first words of the artist, who did not hesitate for a second to stop with the press. The artist began his intervention by thanking the court “for having understood his words” and tearfully remembering his companions in the prison’s therapeutic module.
Regarding how he had spent these five months in prison, the dancer assured that he had tried to get him there as best he could. ”I have been strong and I have felt a lot of love from all the inmates. “I’m very excited,” he said.
Furthermore, the bailaor was convinced that the provisional measure was going to end up being acquittal. If this were not the case, both he and his defense intended to appeal it. ”Now I have to start from scratch again, but hey, now I deserve to eat a hamburger,” he confessed.
His wife has been one of his fundamental pillars during these four years, so the artist did not hesitate to thank her for her support in front of those present. Likewise, Amargo said that during these years he had completed a master’s degree in drug addiction and insisted that reintegration systems in prisons had to be improved. ”The man who entered here five months ago is not the same as the one who is leaving right now (…) I am a different person and now I just want to hug my children,” he said.
Moments later, the choreographer was very blunt about everything he had experienced these last four years. ”I’ve been eating a ‘brown’ for three and a half years,” he asserted. He did not expect to be released from jail this Friday, but he knew that justice was going to agree with him because “he had nothing to hide.” ”I haven’t used for more than a year and there really is no indication of anything, it’s all assumptions. What seems bad to me is that they have violated my privacy,’ he said.
