Two years after her ex Diego ‘El Cigala’ condemned the singer hit him and treat him psychologically as wellAccording to OPEN CASE, the investigation and events channel of Prensa Ibérica, the Court of Violence against women No. 1 in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) has completed its investigation and rendered its decision regarding the artist.
Judge Raquel López-Vizcaino took the woman’s statement. joint two children With El Cigala, 5 and 6 years old, she left her job and family in Jerez, causing the artist to go to the Dominican Republic and look after the children there while developing her art career. The prosecutor also took into account photos and WhatsApp conversations that the artist submitted with his complaint to prove the ill-treatment he was subjected to. for four years, according to his complaint advancing OPEN CASE. The judge also took statements from several people during the investigation of the case. couple’s family and friendswhich confirmed the victim’s complaint.
three crimes
With all this data, and after hearing El Cigala’s version, the judge issued an order that this medium accessed, terminated its investigation and, after finding “reasonable criminal evidence”, charged the artist with three crimes. against him. Therefore, he recommends that El Cigala be tried for a possible crime. habitual abuse against his ex-wife, another ongoing harassment and a third ill-treatment, aggravated because it operates in the family home.
“From the proceedings it has been proven that during their relationship, Ramón Jiménez Salazar (El Cigala) addressed his partner with the following statements: ‘bitch, wretched, eat my shit, I’ll shit on your dead body’In the family home and in the presence of their underage children,” the judge concludes. depriving him of financial support for himself and his children“, To add.
“It has been indicatively proven that Ramón Jiménez Salazar (El Cigala) addressed his partner in front of his children with phrases such as ‘whore, miserable, eat my shit, I’ll shit on your dead body,’” the judge said.
The judge called El Cigala’s “partner” kick him out of the house and “taking her children to grant her wishes” and “taking advantage of her economic superiority to control the woman, preventing her from leaving her and returning to Spain with her children”.
He also accuses the artist of “physically assaulting his ex-wife between 2017 and 2020”. blows and shakes“. Highlighted in the judicial decision four serious incidents of violence: The first of these took place during a discussion in a room at El Cigala’s hotel in Guadalete de Jerez in 2017, according to the records. “Slapped” to his then wife
Soon after, in August of the same year, during a fight the couple had at the Punta Cana airport, “grabbed his arm and shook him violently”. The third and most serious attack, according to the woman’s complaint, occurred in July 2018 when she “condemned her for possible infidelity” at a hotel in Barcelona, and the singer responded by “giving” her. punches and kicks all over your bodyEl Cigala’s ex-wife explained that the artist later had “serious drug problems” and that’s why they had an argument. During one of these discussions, in November 2020, the artist came to his side. “hold it by the neck”as specified in the judge’s order.
denies the facts
El Cigala denies all facts and has challenged the judge’s decision in the Cádiz Court. A forensic team from the Comprehensive Assessment of Gender-Based Violence (UVIVG) Unit at the Cádiz Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science examined the singer last August to determine if she exhibited characteristics of the abuser. In the presence of the doctor, El Cigala said: “I’ve never touched her in my life to the mother of my children”. He blamed his ex-wife for the problems in their relationship and even said that he was the victim: “I was psychologically abused” (…) When I came back from a trip, I asked for a good welcome, but he simply reprimanded me, said I did not call him, and threatened to ruin my career”.
The judge also ordered that UVIVG experts meet with El Cigala’s ex-wife. During the examination, the woman explained that she and her children “lived in one house.” drugs and fear“During his relationship with the artist. “He insulted me, he always threatened to leave me, he would leave if I didn’t do what he wanted. He attacked me when I confronted him (…). I healed my wounds until they dumped me. He was very jealous, controlling me in every way… He once hit me on the head with a piece of bread for wearing red lipstick and tight pants. He wouldn’t let me work at the business level, he wanted me to take care of him there. she’s a macho gypsy (…) I have character, but I started to keep quiet so as not to fight.”
“I was going to take the kids”
El Cigala’s ex-wife confirms that she decided to put an end to the situation when she had a health problem and had to return to Jerez for surgery in 2021: “I got a lot of calls and texts from her. I’m back in Punta Cana. Still after surgery. I was recovering and he insulted me as a gypsy and said this. I had to go with him to take care of him.HE If I didn’t go with him, he would take the kids from me.. I blocked it from my mobile phone,’ and decided to report it: ‘I couldn’t continue in that environment anymore, I didn’t want that environment for my children, so I exploded, I couldn’t stand it anymore and I wanted to. to tell you what’s going on.”
With these two copies, the experts prepared a report and sent it to the judge in the case. In it, they conclude “recognition (to El Cigala and his ex-wife)”. does not provide sufficient data consistent with the gender-based violence processit is understood as the process of domination of the man over his female partner, beyond the attacks that are the subject of the complaint. behavior of a part of the accused towards the complainant”.
restraining order
The judge sees sufficient evidence against El Cigala and offers to send him to court. Until then, the magistrate had decided, according to the prosecution’s statement, to extend the singer’s suspension of the woman. “consistent and uninterrupted, comprehensive”and full of “basic details of reported facts, as well as peripherals and details describing a constant state of insult and humiliation.” The prosecution and the judge called El Cigala’s ex-wife “a isolation and economic suffocation this caused him to return to Jerez with his family”.
The prosecution had already warned in a letter months ago. “vulnerability status” the pain suffered by the woman after reporting ill-treatment “given the public dimension of the person under investigation and the environment surrounding her”. After the artist’s entourage, he also warned about El Cigala’s attitude and lack of remorse. Attempted to “force” the woman to “drop her complaint”.
The judge also took the following points into consideration when making his decision: whatsapp messages Along with a few photographs that El Cigala and her ex-husband exchanged during their relationship and presented as evidence, which the woman took after she was attacked by the artist and which she was in. sores on the face and arms.
In one of those conversations in 2019, the woman expressed herself as follows in the message she sent to her then-lover: “Someone who loves you doesn’t do what you do and you don’t even regret it. I’m sorry, we hope you come back and you’ll think about it, but you don’t want to, nobody knows I wore long sleeves until the bruises go away, nobody will know. It makes me very sad, I am very ashamed because there is no justification for what you did.”
016 is a helpline for victims of sexist violence.