did not appear Justice demanded to wait on the street every fifteen days for the next hearing, and therefore the Provincial Court from Madrid appreciated and ordered dancer Rafael Amargo to go to prison escape risk. Measures were taken regarding the hearing planned to be held about him. starting next April 8 for allegedly Drug sales in Malasaña neighborhood of the capital where he lives.
The entry order was accepted at the request of the prosecutor this Thursday after a hearing by the 30th Division of the District Court, where the prosecutor requested to sign every two weeks. Because he failed to do so multiple times, judges agreed to detain him while he awaited trial. Soto del Real Prison, Legal sources inform El Periódico de España from Prensa Ibérica.
“Ill-treatment” of the press and an official
According to the prison admission order available to this newspaper, Amargo had to appear on the 1st and 15th of each month before the Madrid Instruction Court No. 48, which was investigating his case; The judge sought explanations upon detection and last April received statements – via email – from the dancer’s lawyer, who claimed she was suffering from the disease. “Press phobia that is there every time you go to sign”, and that he was also “mistreated” by an official at the Plaza Castilla where he went to sign a petition. For all these reasons, he requested a change of appearance in the Madrid Regional Court.
Likewise, the artist, Dr. He submitted a report from León’s psychiatric clinic confirming that he suffered from a permanent disability. makes it impossible for you to leave the house about “severe social phobia The scene of leaving home consists of fear”.
Despite the amendment being made and the interim measures being approved, which the defense requested be lifted, the justice system “was unable to confirm that any appearance of ‘apud acta’ or any writ was served justifying the non-implementation of this decision” following this decision. It was decided that he would be summoned to a hearing, which resulted in his arrest due to “failure to appear and failure to submit required health documents”.
“The facilities provided by this judicial body to the defendant in obedience are numerous and, lastly, in an incomprehensible and clearly obstructive manner“, the court concludes: “the order holder decided that the fulfillment of the obligations in question was at his discretion, disregarding the serious consequences that such behavior could lead to and of which he was expressly warned.” From this follows the conclusion of a “significant risk”. The crime of flight and evasion of justice” warrants imprisonment without bail.
The artist is also being investigated on charges of drug trafficking and attack on authority, following a complaint made by his neighbors about alleged drug sales in his apartment on Espíritu Santo Street in the capital. Because of these events, he was arrested in Alicante last March and released on condition.
Operation ‘Codax’
Amargo was arrested with his partner and two other people on December 1, 2020, as part of the ‘Codax operation’. whose name means crow in Latin and referred to by a nickname Amargo’s image on Instagram where this bird species appears with its wings.
In the indictment regarding the previously mentioned case, The prosecutor asked for nine years in prison A prison sentence was given on behalf of Amargo, as well as Amargo’s production assistant Juan Eduardo SB, for allegedly acting “in concert” with the other defendant in the purchase and subsequent distribution of the said substances. His partner was also sentenced to prison on the same grounds.
In his story, the prosecutor states that throughout April and December 2020, both of them “concerned and persistently focused on the distribution of narcotic substances, including methamphetamine, to third parties in exchange for money.”
In its indictment, the prosecutor’s office stated that on April 27, 2020, another of the bail partners, for whom a 6-year prison sentence was requested, was surprised by the police while he was preparing to hand over his client. One bag for 50 euro with the substance that turned out to be methamphetamine; “He had to return to deliver the money,” the item he had collected from Amargo’s home moments earlier.
Three bottles containing Popper substance (alkyl nitrite), a bag with a net weight of 0.089 grams containing a substance that turned out to be phenylethylamine, and a bottle containing 6 milliliters of GBL with a market value of 314.19 euros were seized in his house. It was sold in grams, Europa Press reported at the time.