Two years ago the news broke that Ramón Jiménez Salazar, better known as Diego ‘El Cigala’, was accused of mistreatment by his ex-partner. The woman denounced the singer for beating her and psychologically mistreating her, and assured in her statement that the artist was a “violent” and “jealous” person.
Now, El Periódico has had access through OPEN CASE, the investigation and events channel of Prensa Ibérica, to the decision made by the court for violence against women number 1 of Jerez de la Frontera. With her, ‘El Cigala’ is accused of three crimes, after finding “rational evidence” against the singer, and must be tried for it.
Among the attacks that the woman recounted at the police station, is the strongest, dated July 2018. “I reproached him for possible infidelity and he responded by beating me. I received several punches in various parts of the body and pushed. When I was already on the ground, he kicked me several times. After a few days, he acted with me as if nothing had happened. So, I reproached him for what had happened and he told me: I didn’t beat you up, if I beat you up I won’t you tell it,” said his ex-wife.
After compiling the evidence and taking a statement from family and friends of the couple, who have been in line with what the woman declared, Judge Raquel López-Vizcaíno has made the decision to accuse the artist. Among other things, she has taken into account the WhatsApp conversations and the photographs provided by the complainant, according to the aforementioned medium.
After taking a statement from ‘El Cigala’, the judge has issued an order accusing him of a possible crime of habitual mistreatment, continued harassment and mistreatment, aggravated by having been in the family home. These are the three accusations of the magistrate towards the singer, for which he must be tried, according to what the aforementioned medium has reported.
“From the procedures carried out, it has been indicatively proven that during their relationship, Ramón Jiménez Salazar (El Cigala) addressed his partner with expressions such as ‘whore, wretch, eat my shit, I shit on your dead’, at the family home and in the presence of their minor children”, picks up the car. And it is that the couple have two children together, one of 5 and another of 6 years.
In addition, the magistrate makes it clear that in order to achieve the goal of keeping his partner under control, Diego ‘El Cigala’ “suffocated her financially, depriving her of financial support for herself and her children.”
With everything collected, the judge ensures that there is sufficient evidence to affirm that “he threatened his partner to throw her out of the house and to take away her children to get her to acquiesce to his requests” and that he controlled his wife financially.
Among the accusations accredited by the magistrate are physical attacks “between 2017 and 2020, with blows and shaking” and four serious episodes of violence. The first was the one that occurred at the Guadalete de Jerez hotel, in 2017, where in one of the rooms ‘El Cigala’ “slapped” his former wife.
The second would be located at the Punta Cana airport, where he grabbed the victim “by one arm and shook her strongly” in August of that same year. The third aggression is the one suffered after recriminating him for “possible infidelity”. And the fourth reported by the ex-wife is one of hers in which she came to “grab her by the neck” in November 2020.
For his part, the singer-songwriter denies all the facts and has decided to appeal the order at the Cádiz Court. “I have never laid a hand on the mother of my children in my life,” recounted ‘El Cigala’ before the forensic medical team of the Comprehensive Assessment Unit for Gender Violence. In addition, he claimed to be the victim: “I suffered psychological abuse (…) When I came back from a trip she wanted a good reception, but she only reproached me.” In addition, he assured that he wanted to “destroy his career” from him.
With everything collected, the judge has seen sufficient evidence to send the singer to trial. Of course, meanwhile, the restraining order filed against ‘El Cigala’ has been extended. The Prosecutor’s Office, for its part, assured that the woman’s story was “coherent and seamless, extensive” and full of “essential details about the facts denounced and also peripheral details that describe a situation of constant insults and contempt.”
