The Madrid Court yesterday morning ordered the jailing of bailaor Rafael Amargo for risk of flight and for having repeatedly broken the obligation to sign every 15 days with the judicial body, until his trial is held due in April, accused of selling drugs at his home.
The Prosecutor's Office requested the admission to prison in section 30 of the Madrid hearing for "repeated breach" of the obligation to sign in court every 15 days. Rafael Amargo was present at Thursday's appearance in which the Prosecutor's Office requested admission and yesterday Friday the hearing informed him of the decision to hold him provisionally without bail until the trial is held five months from now. After passing through the dungeons of the Provincial Court, the 48-year-old dancer was transferred to the Soto del Real prison, as was another of the three prosecuted, the producer Eduardo de Santos, for the same reason.
In the interlocutory of the Provincial Court, the magistrates report that Rafael Amargo was arrested on December 1, 2020, but the court of inquiry decreed on December 3, 2020 his provisional release with the obligation to appear in a court in Plaça de Castilla on the 1st and 15th of each month.
Even so, the bailaor stopped going to the courts to sign and, when they informed him that he had to justify this fact, he claimed that he was not going there because of a medical condition, a "phobia of the press" that 'waited in court, and because of the "bad treatment" given to him by a court official. For all this, Amargo requested to sign at the Provincial Court. This request for a change of seat was accepted, but the bailaor also did not comply and continued without attending, claiming that he suffers from a serious social phobia disorder, but without presenting a valid medical report.
On October 23, a hearing was called to assess the precautionary measures, in which the Prosecutor's Office requested the admission to prison to prevent the escape of a defendant who faces a sentence of nine years in prison and who " has systematically breached the obligation to be available to the court". "The facilities granted by this judicial body to the accused for their compliance have been numerous, and finally, in an incomprehensible and manifestly obtrusive way, Mr. García Hernández has decided that the fulfillment of the aforementioned obligations is left to his discretion, bypassing the serious consequences that this behavior could bring him, something of which he was clearly warned", adds the interlocutory.
The trial is scheduled to take place on April 8, 10, 11 and 12, 2024, after the suspension that took place on June 7 because another of the defendants, theater producer Eduardo de Santos, waive your lawyer.
The bailaor, De Santos himself, who is also being asked for nine years, and a partner of the artist, Manuel Ángel Batista León, who is being asked for six, will be tried. All three are accused of being part of a group that trafficked drugs, mainly methamphetamine, which allegedly came from Amargo's apartment, located in the Malasaña neighborhood. The dancer has defended that he did not sell drugs, but only consumed them and that he is in rehabilitation.
On March 16, 2022, he was arrested in Alicante accused of continuing to traffic in drugs and of assaulting the officers who went to arrest him, but he was later released.
